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CHAPTER VIIITHE LAST HUNDRED DAYS">ROM the commencement of the British counter-offen- Aug.A sive to the Armistice became known as The LastHundred Days. They were the days that every armof the Service had been anticipating for four longyears ; glorious, wonderful days days full of action,;and action which gave results. They were days of realadvancing, open fighting, big manoeuvres, book-warfare.And the Battalion had its share of the Canadian Corps slion s share; they were always with the vanguard of the mostadvanced army, starting at Amiens and finishing at Mons.After almost four years of stationary warfare and colossalstruggles, after the experiences gained from the diminutive results of battles organized and prepared and carriedout on a titanic scale, the story of the final blow of theAllies and its consequences reads like fiction. No oneexpected the British Army to rise so suddenly from allit had gone through since March and strike a blow whichbrought, as Ludendorff said, black "the day of the:German Army.The following resume of the British battles and theireffects during The Last Hundred Days gives a broadview of the whole front and will show in a general waythe tactical place those actions, in which the Battalionwas engaged, took in the British strategy. The Battleof Amiens was the firstBritish counter-stroke after fourIt commenced on August 8thmonths on the defensive.and in a few days disengaged Amiens and freed the Paris-Amie is railway. The attack was then transferred alittle north to the Battle of Bapaume which, turning theflank of the German positions on the Somme, compelledthem to withdraw to the east bank of the river. Their newpositions were then turned from the north by the Battle115