Lex Anteinternet: The 100 Days Offensive: Pershing writes a letter. August 31, 1918.

Friday, August 31, 2018

The 100 Days Offensive: Pershing writes a letter. August 31, 1918.

General Pershing, following the events of yesterday, wrote Marshall Foch a lengthy memorandum on this day in 1918.

The memorandum was mostly a recap of the arguments that Pershing had set out the previous day in his face to face argument with Foch. It contained, however, a concession. Pershing thought the original planned offensive at St. Mihel could include a change in direction following its original objective without pausing.

That concession would prove key to breaking the impasse.

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