The Five Major Battles

Ypres
-Canadian soldiers were sent to help protect the Western Front after training in
England
-They reached the Western Front in February 1915
-They joined French-Algerian troops in the trenches near the town of Ypres
-April 22, two months after arriving, Germany choose Ypres for the first gas
attack ever
-They set off 5730 cylinders of chlorine gas
-The gas killed 6037 Canadian soldiers
-The soldiers still stood their ground
-Little land was gained by the Germans
Passchendaele
-Douglas haig (British general) determind to break through the german front
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