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Fifth episode of a series of five: the Battle of Amiens (1918) After the failure of the Spring offensives, the Germans lost the initiative. It was the Allies' turn to chain attacks, gradually reducing the enemy salients. This was the purpose of the Battle of Amiens, which sought to protect this strategic railway junction. By using artillery, aviation, tanks and infantry simultaneously, the Allies achieved impressive results. This battle therefore allows us to summarize the series on complex equipment by illustrating the concept of combined arms. Member channel of the Hérodote Label https://label-herodote.com/ Sources: 1-François Cochet and Rémy Porte, History of the French Army 1914-1918, Paris, 2017 2-Hervé Drévillon and Olivier Wieviorka (dir), Military History of France. II From 1870 to the present day, Paris, 2018 3-Charles Messenger, The day we won the war. Turning point at Amiens, 8 August 1918, London, 2008 4-Sanders Marble, King of Battle: Artillery in World War I, Boston, 2016 5-Roger Chickering, Stig Förster, Great War, Total War Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914-1918, Washington DC, 2006 6-Michel Goya, The Invention of Modern Warfare - From the Red Trousers to the Tank (1871 - 1918), Paris, 2019 7-de Lespinois, Jérôme. "The transformations of aerial warfare", Stratégique, vol. 102, no. 1, 2013, pp. 347-367. 8-Goya, Michel. "The French Army and the Military Revolution of the First World War", Politique étrangère, vol. , no. 1, 2014, pp. 87-99. 9-Christian Stachelbeck, ““In the past, everything was simple in war.” The modernization of combined arms combat based on the example of a German infantry division on the Western Front between 1916 and 1918”, Revue historique des armées, 256 2009, 14-31. 10-Henri Ortholan, la guerre des chars, Paris, 2007 11-Lee Kennett, la première guerre aérienne 1914-1918, Paris, 2005 12-Arnaud Hédin, “The connections between the ground and the plane during the First World War: birth and evolution”, e-Phaïstos [Online], VIII-2 2020 13-Jay Winter, The Cambridge History of the First World War Global War, Cambridge, 2014 14-Elizabeth Greenhalgh, The French Army and the First World War, Cambridge, 2014 15-Alister McCluskey, Amiens 1918 - The Black Day of the German Army, New York, 2008 Notes: 1- The notion of the Triple Entente refers to the alliance between France, Russia and Great Britain. This no longer holds after Russia's exit from the conflict and with the expansion of the conflict to other countries such as Belgium or the United States. Although this creates confusion for me with the Triple Alliance, the French camp is subsequently called the Allied camp, while that of Germany is called the Central States camp. We will use this name again. 2- With the rise of light tank battalions becoming more numerous and available, this remark becomes less and less true towards the end of the conflict with maneuvers and infantry more focused on tanks. On November 11, 1918, this is not yet completely complete. -The map of the Battle of Amiens is slightly distorted, lengthening the East-West axis compared to the North-South axis, to fit the battlefield into the plan. / surlechampdebataille / surlechampfr To support the channel financially: https://www.helloasso.com/association... Original credits music composed by Julien Théron and remixed by Clément BOTZ / Symphony Blacksmith. Logo designed by Camille Sanchez. 0:00 Introduction 1:13 Episode framework 2:00 Context of the battle 3:14 Deployment, plan and means 7:05 The Battle of Amiens 10:55 Consequences 12:08 Study of the attack on Fresnoy-en-Chaussée 14:02 Tanks, planes, guns 15:35 The combined arms 17:10 Simultaneity and sequence 20:18 Interoperability 21:13 Communication 26:16 Creating cooperation between the arms 29:25 Aggregating combined arms forces 31:06 Not seeing the combined arms everywhere 32:02 Combined arms environment in Amiens 33:02 The combined arms synthesis 34:28 The material domination of the Allies 35:13 Conclusion 37:37 Credits