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1922, France gave Canada 91 hectares at the top of Vimy Ridge. There Canadians
erected the Vimy Memorial. Its walls contain the names of the over 11,000 Canadians
who died in France during the First World War and have no known grave.
In the last three months of the war, known as the Hundred Days Offensive, the
Canadian Corps played a lead role in breaking through the front line of a weakened
and overextended German army. The Russian Revolution had sparked Russia's withdrawal
from the war and Germany had to deal with exploiting the new territories it gained
in the peace negotiations on the Eastern Front.
The plan was for the Allies to start at Amiens but to attack hard all along the
Western Front. The Canadians led the charge first at Amiens and then later at
Canal du Nord, Cambrai and finally Mons in November, 1918.
The battles cemented the Canadian Corps' reputation as elite fighters often winning
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