Answer to Question #183282 in English for will

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write about a significant place to you

Answer 1

VIMY RIDGE

Vimy Ridge is situated in the town of Vimy, France. The place is significant because historians have aptly defined it as symbolizing Canada's "coming of age." It was the first time Canadians fought as a separate national army for king and country.

On Easter Monday, April 9, 1917, at 5:30 a.m., the Battle of Vimy Ridge began. The first wave of 15,000-20,000 Canadian troops, many of whom were heavily laden with equipment, charged into the face of deadly machine gun fire through the wind-driven snow and sleet. The first waves of the assault saw a lot of casualties among Canadian battalions, but the assault went off without a hitch. The majority of the heavily defended ridge was captured by noon. The Canadian Corps had taken more ground, prisoners, and artillery pieces than any previous British offensive of the war, together with the British Corps to the south. Canadians would act with bravery in the war. For separate actions in which they seized enemy machine gun positions, four of our soldiers will be awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military honor.

The Battle of Vimy Ridge was a huge success, but it came at a terrible price. There were more than 10,600 deaths among the 100,000 Canadians who served there, with about 3,600 of them being fatal. More than 650,000 men and women served in uniform in Canada, a nation with a population of less than eight million citizens, by the end of the First World War. More than 66,000 Canadians died and more than 170,000 were injured as a result of the war.

I often want to visit this site because it is significant in Canadian history, and many families have been devastated by the loss of a loved one who fought in the Battle of Vimy Ridge.