What is Battle of Vimy Ridge?
The '''Battle of Vimy Ridge''' was a [[World War I]] [[battle]] fought in 1917 near [[Arras]] in northern [[France]].<ref name=Hayes1>''Vimy Ridge: A Canadian Reassessment'', eds. Geoffrey Hayes; Andrew Iarocci; Mike Bechthold (Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007), p. 1</ref> From the fall of 1914 until 1917 the [[German Empire|German]] army held this eight kilometre-long ridge.<ref name=Gough422>Barry M. Gough, ''Historical Dictionary of Canada'' (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2011), p. 422</ref> From there they could see the [[Triple Entente|Allied]] [[:en:wikt:trenches|trenches]] for [[:wikt:miles|miles]] in all directions. Several times the Allies tried to take it from the Germans without success.<ref name=Gough422/> On 9 April, 1917 they attacked again.<ref>''Great Canadian War Stories'', ed. Muriel Whitaker (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2001), p. 85</ref> Four [[:wikt:divisions|divisions]] of the [[Canadian Corps]] attacked nineteen divisions of the German 6th Army defending the [[:wikt:ridge|ridge]]. The Battle was won by the Canadians on Easter Monday, 1917. It was the first time that Canadians had attacked as a national unit. However it cost the Canadians 10,602 [[:wikt:casualties|casualties]].<ref name=Hayes1/> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:1917 in Europe]] [[Category:1910s in France]] [[Category:Battles involving Canada|Vimy]] [[Category:Battles involving Germany|Vimy]] [[Category:Battles involving the United Kingdom|Vimy]] [[Category:Battles of World War I|Vimy Ridge]] [[Category:Pas-de-Calais]] {{history-stub}}