1. Canada and the first world war
... battle of Vimy Ridge was to achieve the ever-elusive breakthrough in the German lines. It was at Vimy Ridge that the German's heavily fortified Hindenburg Line made a junction with many other trenches along the front. Behind the ridge there also lay many of German factories, which were vital for the construction ... It came in the year 1915 when the "New Born" Canadian Army was moved from what was their somewhat silent sector on the Western Front to the line in front of the town of Ypres, Belgium. On the right of the Canadians would be two British Divisions. It would be here, at Ypres ...
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