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In the Trenches
Despite the advances in technology the Industrial Revolution brought, the early
stages of the Great War were fought using ideas and tactics from Napoleonic campaigns.
Trench warfare, for example, was a well-known strategy. The idea was to protect
troops in dug-out pathways carved out of the land and relentlessly pound and
attack enemy fortifications as the trenches were dug closer and closer to the
opposing side
However, Military commanders on both sides seemed unprepared for the relentless,
brutal stalemates that came with the terrain and technology of World War I.
The withering hail of machine gun fire, mortar attacks, and artillery and the
bramble of barbed wire that slowed soldiers down, made direct offensive assaults
on fortified positions almost impossible without an enormous loss of life. |
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Scene take at Camp
Hughes, then Camp Sewel
Soldiers at Canadian training camps like Camp Sewell
learned little about the real trench warfare they would soon face.
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