The Battle Of Vimy Ridge

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1) How Weather affected the rate of death in each battle.
You can’t control or defeat weather like you can defeat the enemy in the war. You just have to factor it into your calculations to best prepare yourself and your nation to be successful in battle. In a lot of the major battles weather either hindered or helped our soldiers and led us to our outcome in each battle. These outcomes led us to the statistics of death.

Vimy Ridge- The battle of Vimy Ridge is remembered as Canada’s military coming of age. One of the factors that helped them gain this in the battle was the weather. When the battle began at Vimy Ridge they were in the middle of a massive sleet of snow and a gush of wind that was in the Canadians favour. The wind helped the

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