{"id":18768,"date":"2019-07-08T14:01:50","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T13:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/?p=18768"},"modified":"2019-07-08T14:01:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T13:01:50","slug":"the-battle-of-amiens-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/?p=18768","title":{"rendered":"The Battle of Amiens (Talk)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>THE BATTLE OF AMIENS -The Use of Tanks in the Hundred Days Offensive\u2019<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>An evening talk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong> by<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Stuart Wheeler, <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Was Thursday 20th September 2018, in The Kincaid Gallery, The Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Hundred Days Offensive was the final period of the First World War, during which the Allies launched a series of offensives on the Western Front between August and November 1918; it began with the Battle of Amiens, an attack by 10 Allied divisions with more than 500 tanks that achieved surprise and broke through the German lines.<\/p>\n<p>Tanks attacked German rear positions, sowing panic and confusion and by the end of the day a gap 15 miles wide had been created in the German line south of the Somme. The Allies took 17,000 prisoners and 330 guns; total German losses were estimated to be 30,000 men while the Allies had suffered 6,500 killed, wounded and missing.<\/p>\n<p>The collapse in German morale led Erich Ludendorff to dub it \u2018the Black Day of the German Army\u2019; the offensive essentially pushed the German out of France, forcing them to retreat beyond the Hindenburg Line. The term \u2018Hundred Days Offensive\u2019 does not refer to a specific battle or unified strategy, but rather the rapid series of Allied victories that led to the armistice and the end of the war.<\/p>\n<p>Stuart Wheeler has been the Archive Manager at The Tank Museum in Bovington since 2014. He has given numerous talks on anti-tank tactics, the birth of the tank and the Battle of Cambrai as well as bespoke tours for the military and other various groups.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently working on producing a second edition of the Tank Museum\u2019s Top Trumps card game.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;The Battle of Amiens&quot; by Stuart Wheeler from the Tank Museum\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PBLN1pZPr5M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sourced From YouTube (Credited to William Wright)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hundred Days Offensive was the final period of the First World War, during which the Allies launched a series of offensives on the Western Front between August and November 1918; it began with the Battle of Amiens, an attack by 10 Allied divisions with more than 500 tanks that achieved surprise and broke through the German lines&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3754,17,3753],"class_list":["post-18768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-battle-of-amiens","tag-memorial-at-peninsula","tag-stuart-wheeler","category-6-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}