Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden to train and recruit an army for overseas service. At the time‚ Canada had a regular army of only 3‚112 men and a fledgling navy.[1] However‚ within a mere two months‚ Canada could boast of an army of over 32‚000 men as men flocked to recruiting stations. Most of the militia trained at CFB Valcartier‚ just north of Quebec City and within two months the First Contingent‚ Canadian Expeditionary Force‚ was on its way to England in the largest convoy ever to cross the
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country to fight. Thomas Paine accomplishes this tricky balance in “The Crisis No. 1” by utilizing a shifting tone that ranges from assured to dire as well as hypothetical scenarios and anecdotes in order to convince his audience that fighting the British is both possible and necessary. Over the course of the piece‚ Paine’s tone concerning the impending war changes from confident to urgent‚ which gives the impression that the colonists would win a war against Britain‚ but only if they prepare now
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the American Revolution‚ a war which should have been won by the British. British Forces had many advantages that could have easily win the war for them‚ but it is how they used them that brought their defeat. The British Empire was the worlds largest military power during that time‚ each soldier was given a extensive training time that covered each form of fighting that they would encounter. Another advantage that the british gained was the Holy Roman Empires Support. The HRE was made up
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through the Ardennes‚ which is covered by dense forest. The Germans took the French and the British Expeditionary Force -who were allied with France- by surprise because of the speed of their advance and managed to corner them into a French port named Dunkirk. At this point there was a threat that the entire British army (over 300‚000 troops) could be killed before the War had even started. On May 27th the British Government‚ lead by Winston Churchill‚ began a plan named ‘Operation Dynamo’. The plan was
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similar anti-colonial rebellions in the Spanish Empire. Both countries had quietly provided assistance to the Americans since the beginning of the war hoping to dilute British power. So too had the Netherlands‚ eventually brought into open war at the end of 1780. In London‚ King George III gave up hope of subduing America by more armies while Britain had a European war to fight. The King was determined never to acknowledge the independence of the Americans‚ and to punish their contumacy by the indefinite
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America fought relentlessly to gain her independence from the tyrannical reign of the British crown. She fought long and hard for her independence‚ and on July 4th‚ of 1776‚ she gained that independence. However‚ the battle between America and Great Britain‚ had not reached a stand still. Even though the United States was now a sovereign nation‚ it still possessed a weak‚ under supplied army compared to that of their British counterparts. With battles raging along the coast‚ Americans began to wonder when
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wires but only make them fly up and tangle up more‚ causing a disadvantage to his own troops. The ways the British soldiers walk up to the Germans were too unrealistic and not professional. Walking up to the enemy and not taking cover? Ridiculous! Also if General Haig was with the soldiers together fighting and commanding‚ that would have boosted morale. As the people like to say‚ the British soldiers are lions led by donkeys. General Haig was a follower of a way of fighting called‚ attrition that
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Somme in France is used as the fighting tool place and war has begun near the river so the war is named. During the period‚ General Douglas Haig is the Commander-in-Chief for the British Army so he took full control of the attack. The General wanted to make a breakthough to get through the German trenches and defeat the army once and for all. What he planned to do is to firstly smash the German’s trenches with a bombardment of shell fire to last for 7 days and nights. Secondly‚ he would send infantry
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numerous factors‚ mainly due to British imperialism‚ that caused and had significant impact on the Indian nation. Through the course of the Indian mutiny economic‚ Cultural‚ Armies and the Enfield rifle incident caused the Indian Mutiny. These factors bundled together and impacted together which contributed to widespread uprising and the India Mutiny. British Imperialism caused economic and political strain on the Indian Community‚ which in turn placed the British already on thin ice with the Indians
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