They did not make the mistakes the made before and incorporated their successes from past battles. The Canadians had to learn from their mistakes the tough way. They lost 10,602 men in the battle of Vimy ridge. And in the battle of Somme Canada lost 1,373 men. The Canadians prepared for the attack on Vimy Ridge by digging tunnels under no man’s land.
Another terrible problem was the rats. There were literally millions of rats running around the trenches. They fed on the dead remains of the soldiers and could grow to the size of a rat. These rats carried many diseases that killed many of the men there as well. Lice were another dilemma in the trenches.
In this essay I will explain how Sources 2 and 3 support this impression given and also how they challenge it. Sources 2 and 3 emphasise the disaster of the battle, the bravery and chivalry of the army. The charge is clearly seen as ‘the disaster of the day’ as so many were killed in such a short amount of time and is now a ‘matter of world history’. ‘It was now do or die’ shows how brave the army was because they were going into the charge not knowing whether they would come back out dead or alive and this is very admirable. The impression of the Russian army in Source 1 is developed in Sources 2 and 3 as they are described as the ‘brutish army’ with fire ‘pouring from all sides’.
Veteran Affairs Canada states that it was the persistent efforts of the 3rd Canadian Division, the city of Caen was at last in Allied hands. The responsibility of invading Juno Beach which was much surrounded was given to Canada and no other country. Resistance was stiffening as they approached Caen but by nightfall all the leading elements were over eight kilometers inland, proving that despite this heavily surrounded area, Canada was still able to invade that part of France. Juno Beach was perhaps the most heavily-fortified of the five invasion beaches that the
“Through preparation must lead to success. Neglect nothing.” - Arthur Currie. Spotlight Canada (90). During this time in world war one the Canadians had earned the title of being brave soldiers in battle. This was the reason why they were sent to capture Vimy Ridge from the Germans and were successful, a place where both France and Britain had been defeated by German defences during the beginning of World War One.
It was a sad day for the Sioux with many tears shed and many prayers sent. As time went by the great buffalo was almost driven to extinction. Unfortunately I cannot blame the white man entirely for this tragedy, as I and all Lakota Sioux many times killed to many buffalo to use and wasted much. With more and more white men pouring into our lands, by the 1850’s we were at conflict with one another mainly over land. Treaties were signed but rarely honored and many were nothing more than underhand ways to steal our land.
Trench warfare Trench warfare is where rival armies dug themselves a trench, in order to protect themselves from gun fire from side. Life in the Trenches during World War 1 was terrible. Conditions were disgusting, the first thing a new recruit would notice was the smell, rotting bodies barely buried under the ground, men who hadn’t washed in weeks because there were no facilities for them to use. Although these smells were repulsive, new recruits soon got used to them and contributed to it with their own bodily odour. Disease and infection was very common in these conditions.
Fleas are also very harmful to dogs. All they do is infest all over a dog and feed on its blood. They kill the host’s skin
Haig only intention was to breakthrough to get the German trenches and defeat the army once and for all. The battle took more than 1,000,000 lives and as it was the bloodiest battle throughout the history, it is said that more than 20,000 soldiers died in the first hour and more than 60,000 casualties on the first day. The soldiers that took part in this insidious war were as young as 14 and had no training and they did not know that they’ll die so young. The Somme ended in bloodshed and the human cost was very high, 420,000 British soldiers and 200,000 French soldiers had died for their country, almost as many as the Germans added together. This insidious war The Somme was the most tragic moment for Britain and British history.
In the Sassoon’s poem “Aftermath,” he explains war as something that can never be forgotten. The distasteful thought haunts everyone to the point where war completely takes over the human mind. He documented the war environment as something that was unbearable to live at. Waking up next to a fellow member and seeing their body decay was worrisome. The rats crawling everywhere because the environment was not clean and unsanitary was frightening to see.