Why Is It Important To Capture Vimy Ridge?
Vimy Ridge
General Information
The war of Vimy Ridge started on April 9th 1917 and ended April 12 during 1917 (Richard Foot 2006)
The ridge was captured and obtained from the German army by the Canadian forces (Richard Foot 2006)
This battle was known as Canada's biggest victory and the moment Canada gained independence because no other member of the Triple Entente were able to succeed in capturing the ridge(Richard Foot 2006)
Over ten thousand Canadians were killed and wounded total during the attack (Richard Foot 2006)
There is a big limestone memorial on top of Vimy Ridge that acknowledge all of the soldiers who fought for Canada who which died in France without graves and it is inscribed with all of the dead soldiers names (Richard Foot 2006) …show more content…
This would allow the allies to advance with protection of the Canadian forces (Richard Foot 2006)
Vimy Ridge was a hill that was 7 kilometres long. It was in a rural area near the German’s Douai Plain just east (Richard Foot 2006)
Before the Canadians successful effort to gain control of the Germans Vimy Ridge, the French tried and failed loosing over 100 000 soldiers (Richard Foot 2006)
This made Canadian troops need to run over a field of corpses in order to make it to Vimy Ridge (Richard Foot 2006)
Riflemen were given a new kind of bullet that would explode on impact and spray shrapnel in all directions which made their weapons more effective even if they miss the target completely (Tim Cook 2004)
The battle began at 5:30 am in a surprise attack (Tim Cook 2004)
General Information
The war of Vimy Ridge started on April 9th 1917 and ended April 12 during 1917 (Richard Foot 2006)
The ridge was captured and obtained from the German army by the Canadian forces (Richard Foot 2006)
This battle was known as Canada's biggest victory and the moment Canada gained independence because no other member of the Triple Entente were able to succeed in capturing the ridge(Richard Foot 2006)
Over ten thousand Canadians were killed and wounded total during the attack (Richard Foot 2006)
There is a big limestone memorial on top of Vimy Ridge that acknowledge all of the soldiers who fought for Canada who which died in France without graves and it is inscribed with all of the dead soldiers names (Richard Foot 2006) …show more content…
This would allow the allies to advance with protection of the Canadian forces (Richard Foot 2006)
Vimy Ridge was a hill that was 7 kilometres long. It was in a rural area near the German’s Douai Plain just east (Richard Foot 2006)
Before the Canadians successful effort to gain control of the Germans Vimy Ridge, the French tried and failed loosing over 100 000 soldiers (Richard Foot 2006)
This made Canadian troops need to run over a field of corpses in order to make it to Vimy Ridge (Richard Foot 2006)
Riflemen were given a new kind of bullet that would explode on impact and spray shrapnel in all directions which made their weapons more effective even if they miss the target completely (Tim Cook 2004)
The battle began at 5:30 am in a surprise attack (Tim Cook 2004)