The battle of Ypres was a great accomplishment for the Canadian military. It took place on April, 1915 at Belgian City of Ypres. The First Canadian division joined up with French-Algerian troops in the trenches near the town of Ypres, Belgium. Two months later, the German forces unleashed a new and very horrible weapon, chlorine gas. They chose Ypres for their gas attack. This made the first gas attack in history, and made it terrible for Canadians because they didn’t bring along gas masks with them. The Canadians and French-Algerians were surrounded on three sides by German trenches, with only one way for the Canadians and French-Algerian troops to retreat. The German forces quietly brought in 5730 cylinders of chlorine gas to the front

“The Canadians played a part of such distinction that thenceforward they were marked out as storm troops; for the remainder of the way they were brought along to head the assault in one great battle after prepared for the worst,” wrote Lloyd George. This was written by a war hero, but this time it was from someone who finished the most deadly war. It proves Canada’s success because he is still alive to tell most of the story about the war.

After winning both the Somme and Ypres battles Canada's army was known to be very strong; however their power and strength would once again be tested in the battle of Vimy Ridge. This battle was on a long whale shaped hump of land that rose 60 meters above the Douai Plain in France. This gave German soldiers a commanding view of anything, such as the British army. They also protected a vital area of occupied France, where mines and factories had dug a maze of deep trenches and dugouts in the ridge and dug out underground chambers, big enough to shelter the whole German battalion from allied barrages. They also had machine gun posts which were footed into very thick concrete and wrapped in hedges of thick barbed wire. The British army had tried many times to capture Vimy, but they were always stopped and turned back by the German artillery.

On the third battle of Ypres, the British and French high command had decided that a “three prong” attack on the German lines was needed to break the stalement that had ensued since the end of 1914. It was finally decided that the British forces would attack at the Ypres front as part of the three phase attack.

line and set them in place. They released the gas on the early evening of April 22nd. The allied High Command had been told about a possible German gas attack but it failed to provide any information or means of defence to the soldiers who were already on the front lines.

A cloud of strange, green smoke rolling towards the Canadian and French-Algerian trenches made the French-Algerian troops panic and flee from the trench. Canadians proved their bravery by holding their ground for 3 more days. Four days later, less than half of the soldiers have survived. Although the Canadian casualties totalled 6037, the soldiers had stood their ground. The fight kept on going on until Canadians finally won. The Canadians won high praise as courageous fighters of thi

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