Francis Pegahmagabow's Role In The Civil War

Francis Pegahmagabow participated in the Battle of Passchendaele which took place in a small village in Belgium named Passchendaele, from July 31, 1917 to November 10, 1917. The battle was between the Allies and Germany. It saw the death of 325,000 Allied and 260,000 German troops. There were two main perspectives in this event: the Allied (Canada and Britain) as well as the German viewpoint. Starting off with the Allied view, Britain became irritated by the Germans’ unrestricted submarine warfare (the sinking of Allied ships in foreign waters). The Germans had threatened the shipping paths for goods like war supplies and food into Britain. One commander in the British military named General Douglas Haig proposed that if the Allies defeated German front lines in Belgium, they could advance to free the Belgian ports. Haig argued that capturing areas near Ypres, Belgium (such as Passchendaele Ridge) would allow the Allies to push through to the Belgian coast and halt the Germans’ assaults on ships. These ideas were approved by the British War Cabinet and thus began the battle. Francis was part of the 100,000-man Canadian Expeditionary Force (CED), during the battle. The Expeditionary Force was an army raised in Canada that fought overseas in Europe, in WWI. Francis served as a lance corporal …show more content…
So from the German viewpoint, the Germans had to defend themselves against their attackers in the Battle of Passchendaele. The German soldiers who inhabited Passchendaele resisted against the CED’s initial surprise attacks. In the later months of the battle, they gained intelligence from spies about forthcoming assaults from the British, and so they were much more prepared for the final parts of the battle. By the time the battle had terminated, the Germans had lost hold of Passchendaele and lost thousands of their troops, just as the Allies