The Five Major Battles.
Date Submitted: 07/24/2004 11:00:45
Category: / History / War & Conflicts
Length: 2 pages (423 words)
Category: / History / War & Conflicts
Length: 2 pages (423 words)
Ypres
-Canadian soldiers were sent to help protect the Western Front after training in
England
-They reached the Western Front in February 1915
-They joined French-Algerian troops in the trenches near the town of Ypres
-April 22, two months after arriving, Germany choose Ypres for the first gas
attack ever
-They set off 5730 cylinders of chlorine gas
-The gas killed 6037 Canadian soldiers
-The soldiers still stood their ground
-Little land was gained by the Germans
Passchendaele
-Douglas …
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…for germany)
-german carved underground chambers/trenches
-built machines gunsfooted in concrete and wrapped in hedges of thick barbed
wire
-German army was confident that no one coul force it off Vimy Ridge.
-Vimy R. fell to the Cans. Corps under the command of Brit General, Julian Byng
-Major-General Author Currie (canadian-born commander of the 1st canadian
devision)
-3500 lives of cans. were lost
-Canada had its own officers in command of the Cans. Corps.
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