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British forces captured Albert
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Canadian troops broke through the Hindenburg Line.
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New Zealand troops occupied Baupanne.
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Australian forces occupied Péronne. Canadian troops continued their advance past the Hindenburg Line.
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1,476 Allied aircraft supported an US attack at St. Mihiel.
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US forces occupy St. Mihiel.
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Turkish forces collapsed at Megiddo
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French and American forces started an offensive against German positions at Argonne.
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New British offensive started
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Fourth Battle of Ypres started.
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Luderndorff asked for an immediate armistice.
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Damascus taken by Australian and Arab forces.
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Germany asked the Allies for an armistice based on Woodrow Wilson’s ‘Fourteen Points’.
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British troops advanced to the last line of trenches in the Hindenburg Line.
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French troops occupied Laon.
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German troops started to abandon the Belgian coastline.
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British troops occupied Lille. Belgian troops reoccupied Ostend
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Zeebruge occupied by the British.
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Start of the Battle of Vittorio Veneto.
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Luderndorff dismissed by Wilhelm II.
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The German Army experienced mutinies in certain sectors.
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Turkey made peace with the Allies. The Italians captured Vittorio Veneto.
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A major French-US offensive started in the Aisne-Meuse sector.
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Austria-Hungary signed an armistice with Italy. A mutiny occurred within the High Seas Fleet based at Kiel – generally seen as the spark that caused the German Revolution.
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The poet Wilfred Owen was killed. Start of the final Allied offensive on the Western Front.
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General retreat of German forces along the Meuse started.
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German representatives arrived at Compiègne and are handed the terms of an armistice.
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Wilhelm II of Germany abdicated. Belgian forces occupied Ghent.
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Wilhelm II crossed into the Netherlands after it became clear that the German Army and Navy no longer supported him.
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Germany signed an armistice with the Allies, which came into force at 11.00. World War One ended.