Nothing could stop the British.

They swept right over them.

It was a glorious day for British arms." It was also the climax of two months' fighting in which French, British, and Americans had all played to the full the part laid down for them by the history of the preceding years, and in which it fell to the British Army to give the final and victorious blow.
_Non nobis, Domine!--non nobis!_ It will, I think, be of use to the non-military reader if I append to the sketch I have just given of the last phase of the British effort, the following paragraphs written last January by an officer of the General Staff, in response to the question indicated in the opening sentence.
"I have been asked to say what in my opinion were the most critical and anxious stages of the series of great successful battles opened on the 8th August, 1918.

The question is not easy, for the whole period was one of high tension, calling for continuous and unsparing effort.
"From one point of view, the opening battle east of Amiens was decisive, for it marked the turning point of the campaign on the British front.

Its moral effects, both on our own troops and on the enemy, were far-reaching and give the key to the whole of the succeeding struggle.