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How did the vimy ridge battle give us an understanding of present day?

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By 1917, after three years of fruitless slaughter, the First World War had become a struggle of attrition. The opposing Allied and German armies were stuck in a stalemate on the Western Front — a vast line of trench works stretching from the North Sea through Belgium and France to the Swiss border. Millions of soldiers on both sides had been killed and wounded in battles that brought the war no closer to an end.In the spring of 1917, the French and British planned a new offensive in the hope

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The assault on Vimy Ridge, the northern part of the wider Battle of Arras, began at 5:30 am on Easter Monday, April 9, 1917. It was the first occasion on which all four divisions of the Canadian Corps attacked as a composite formation. The Canadian achievement in capturing Vimy Ridge owed its success to a range of technical and tactical innovations, very powerful artillery preparation, sound and meticulous planning, and thorough preparation. At Vimy, the Canadian Corps and the British XVII Corps on their immediate southern flank had captured more ground, more prisoners, and more guns than any previous British Expeditionary Force offensive. Vimy Ridge was a particularly important tactical feature. Its capture by the Canadians was essential to the advances by the British Third Army to the south and of exceptional importance to checking the German attacks in the area in 1918.

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