Fisher noted with an eagle eye the milestones on the path to conflict.98 In 1911, he predicted that war with Germany would come when the widening of the Kiel Canal was finished. Indeed, he foresaw a German surprise attack, probably on a three-day holiday weekend. His predicted date for the “Battle of Armageddon”? October 21, 1914. (In fact, the Great War began two months earlier — in August 1914, on a holiday weekend, a month after the canal had been completed.)
