Battle of Vimy Ridge

The Battle of Vimy Ridge was a World War I battle fought in 1917 near Arras in northern France . ^[1] From the fall of 1914 until 1917 the German army held this eight kilometre-long ridge. ^[2] From there they could see the Allied trenches for miles in all directions. Several times the Allies tried to take it from the Germans without success. ^[2] On 9 April, 1917 they attacked again. ^[3] Four divisions of the Canadian Corps attacked nineteen divisions of the German 6th Army defending the ridge . The Battle was won by the Canadians on Easter Monday, 1917. It was the first time that Canadians had attacked as a national unit. However it cost the Canadians 10,602 casualties . ^[1]

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↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Vimy Ridge: A Canadian Reassessment , eds. Geoffrey Hayes; Andrew Iarocci; Mike Bechthold (Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007), p. 1
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Barry M. Gough, Historical Dictionary of Canada (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2011), p. 422
↑ Great Canadian War Stories , ed. Muriel Whitaker (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2001), p. 85

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[Hayes1-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Vimy Ridge: A Canadian Reassessment , eds. Geoffrey Hayes; Andrew Iarocci; Mike Bechthold (Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007), p. 1

[Gough422-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Barry M. Gough, Historical Dictionary of Canada (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2011), p. 422

[3] Great Canadian War Stories , ed. Muriel Whitaker (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2001), p. 85

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