Allied advance in the west continued, and, on the American sector at least, with fresh incentive. The Americans reached Sedan on the same day that the German delegates reached General Ferdinand Foch's rendezvous.The terms he laid down were severe - sufficient to cripple the German forces more decisively than any battle. But the collapse of the home front, even more than the military menace in front and flank, ensured their acceptance. In any event, the stranglehold of the blockade was stifling to power of resistance, so the Germans had no choice but to sign. And at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 the war came to an end....
