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The armistice
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Allied counter-offensive
It began on August 8, 1918 with the reduction of the Montdidier salient by Franco-British forces. Ludendorff would later write that this was the day of mourning for the German army.
The successive and simultaneous offensives launched by Foch will not stop; it is what will be called the "battle of the hundred days" and the Germans carry out a fight of delay by leaning on their defensive organizations, in particular the "Hindenburg line".
On November 11, 1918, the Allies arrived on the Franco-German border of 1871 and the western part of Belgium was liberated.
