![]() The full resources of our sister Dominion, the Canadian Corps, will also operate on our right, while two British Divisions will guard our left flank… we shall inflict blows upon the enemy which will make him stagger, and bring the end appreciably nearer.” They will be supported by an exceptionally powerful artillery, and by tanks and aeroplanes on a scale never previously attempted. “For the first time in the history of this Corps all five Australian Divisions will tomorrow be engaged in the largest and most important battle operation ever undertaken by the Corps. The importance of Australia’s role in the attack was emphasised by Monash who sensed a moment of destiny, The British Expeditionary Force’s 4 th Army Commander General Henry Rawlinson attacked the German positions at Amiens with a combined British and Commonwealth force supported by a vast array of tanks, aircraft and artillery pieces. This combined arms approach would also prove to be successful when applied on a much larger scale at Amiens. The Australian victory at Le Hamel highlighted the effectiveness of the combined arms approach-a masterful feat of coordination by General John Monash. The Allied counter-attack saw the Allies firmly in control.įollowing the failure of the German Spring Offensive, the Australians were victors against the Germans in such actions as the battle of Hazebrouck where their bludgeoning defence inflicted high casualties on the enemy, and the daring night-time action in recovering Villers-Bretonneux barely twenty hours after the Germans had taken it. ![]() Victory at the Marne was achieved when French, American and British Forces repulsed a German offensive and then inflicted a punishing defeat on the Germans in their subsequent counter-attack. ![]() The decisive victory at Amiens was prefaced days before by the Allied victory in the second battle of the Marne. General Erich Ludendorff described the Battle of Amiens as a ‘black day for Germany’ because of the catastrophic impact of the Allied victory. ![]()
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