Editing Hundred Days Offensive (section)

===Somme===
{{main|Second Battle of the Somme}}
[[File:AWM AWM E03183 peronne.jpg|thumb|1 September 1918, [[Péronne, Somme]]. A machine gun position established by the [[54th Battalion (Australia)|Australian 54th Battalion]] during its attack on German forces in the town]]

Haig refused to continue the attack and instead prepared to launch a fresh offensive by the [[Third Army (United Kingdom)|Third Army]] at [[Albert, Somme|Albert]] (the [[Battle of Albert (1918)|Battle of Albert]]), which opened on 21 August.<ref name = "Bean" />{{rp |713–4}} The offensive was a success, pushing the German 2nd Army back over a {{convert|34|mi|km|abbr=on}} front. Albert was captured on 22 August.<ref name="greatwar.co.uk">{{cite web |url=http://www.greatwar.co.uk/timeline/ww1-events-1918.htm#august |title=History of the Great War – principal events timeline – 1918 |access-date=11 June 2010}}</ref> The attack was widened on the south, by the French [[Tenth Army (France)|Tenth Army]] starting the Second Battle of Noyon on 17 August, capturing the town of [[Noyon]] on 29 August.<ref name="greatwar.co.uk"/> On 26 August, to the north of the initial attack, the [[First Army (United Kingdom)|First Army]] widened the attack by another {{convert |7|mi|km| abbr=on}} with the Second Battle of Arras of 1918. [[Bapaume]] fell on 29 August (during the [[Second Battle of Bapaume]]).