Second Battle of Ypres

left as a proud nation as a result of their contribution in the war. The war was the bloodiest conflict in Canadian history, with around 61’000 casualties, however battles such as Ypres, Somme, Passchendaele and Vimy Ridge triggered many Canadians to believe that Canada could be its own country and not a colony of Britain. The battle of Vimy Ridge was by far the most successful for the Canadians and it changed the way Canadians were looked at. The Canadians captured the very difficult position…

1. According to Chickering, and Empires and Citizens, there were multiple reasons for the outbreak of the war of 1914. Some were long and some were short term causes. Such as the effects of Militarism and Imperialism. However, in Chickering, the assassination of Archduke Fran Ferdindad in June 1914, contributed greatly to the outbreak when a Serbian student shot him and his wife to death. This event created extreme tension between the main powers in Europe and probably the most important…

U.S. after Japan is attacking them and then the Germans declaring war on them. After, the Japanese bombed the U.S. they had started to get bombed. U.S. started to push back Japan toward Japan. Key battles that pushed them back was the Battle of Coral where the ships never saw each other, also the Battle of Midway. Right after Japan bombed the U.S. we went and bombed them. To end the war, the U.S. went and nuked Japan twice. Back in Europe air warfare was now in the Allies favor. D-Day was a…

short period of time, Mary spoke to Willie and he responded, clearly alive. Mary’s ability to bring the boy back to life proved to be her second miracle. Moreover, Mary’s third and final miracle was to make herself appear in an abandoned church on a battlefield to a wounded soldier. While Dunstan was in Passchendaele, Belgium fighting in the Third Battle at Ypres, he became severely injured due to shrapnel. He had to crawl through the mud into the ruins of an old church. Suddenly a flare dropped…

Organized Massacre What just happend? That was the question of many people in the early Twentieth Century. No one expected that a war of this great of magnitude would take place. The death and destruction the Great War brought was painted a vivid red colour with in the minds of almost every citizen who had any ties to this war. Why was the death toll so high and unlike anything the world had ever seen up to that date? World War I was the result of the changing of the world due to…

he spent nearly half of his days at headquarters well behind the front lines. He fought in the First battle of Ypres, the battle of Somme, the battle of Arras, and the battle of Passchendaele. He received a nice little wound at the battle of Somme. An artillery shell exploded in the dispatch runner tent and a piece of shrapnel hit him in the thigh. He was awarded the iron cross first and second class for bravery, and the black wound badge. He was blinded for a short time in a mustard gas…

among their German opponents as the “Devil Gun.” French commanders claimed it won the war. French 75 mm field guns also saw action in the Second World War, during which some were modified by the Germans into anti-tank guns with limited success.” I find this weapon interesting because it outshines the machine gun during war and the nickname It got during the battle with the Germans had intrigued me very much. The “Devil Gun” something both fascinating yet very deadly during the…

"The First World War was Canada's education in the art of being a sovereign state, and it was a very good times to learn" (Dyer, canada.com). During World War 1, Canadian soldiers entered the war be association as one of Great Britain's colonies. Many Canadians were part of the war effort. The troops were strong and fought hard, gaining a reputation of being formidable soldiers. After the war, a representative from Canada, Prime Minister Borden, was allowed to sign the treaty of Versailles, and…

Mustard Gas, in World War I, was called the King of Battle Gases because it caused more battle causalities, as in injuries that took them out of the war and some deaths, than all of the other chemical agents used in that Great War (Everts, n.d.). This synthetic agent had an innocent beginning but rapidly became something the world rallied around to ban due to its harmful effects. In 1886 Victor Meyer first discovered the harmful effects of (ClCH2CH2)2S or what would later become known as Mustard…

other hand, am not doing as well. I have news that makes me feel sick every time I think about it. Roger and I will be heading overseas to help France in the war. France has suffered lots of casualties from the Oise-Aisne campaign, along with the battle of Ypres-Lys, so Roger and I believe that any help is better than none. Our boat leaves next Monday from Boston and arrive at the Saint Nazaire port in France. We are not sure yet where we will be stationed, but I would assume we will start…