Battles and Engagements On The Western Front
- 1915
- Second Battle of Ypres
- Battle of Gravenstafel—April 22–23
- Battle of St. Julien—April 24 – May 4 (see also Saint Julien Memorial)
- Battle of Festubert—May 15–25
- Second Battle of Givenchy—June 15–16
1916:
- Battle of Mount Sorrel—June 2–13
- Battle of the Somme
- Battle of Flers-Courcelette—September 15–22
- Battle of Thiepval—September 26–28
- Battle of Le Transloy—October 1–18
- Battle of the Ancre Heights—October 1 – November 11
1917:
- Battle of Vimy Ridge—April 9–14
- Battle of Arleux—April 28–29
- Third Battle of the Scarpe—May 3–4 (including the capture of Fresnoy)
- Second Battle of Passchendaele—October 26 – November 10
1918:
- Battle of Amiens—August 8–11
- Actions round Damery—August 15–17
- Battle of the Scarpe—August 26–30
- Battle of Drocourt-Quéant—September 2–3
- Battle of the Canal du Nord—September 27 – October 1
- Battle of Cambrai—October 8–9
Read more about this topic: 1st Canadian Division
Famous quotes containing the words battles and, battles, engagements, western and/or front:
“Elections and politics in this country correspond with battles and war in other times and countries. Whatever of departing evils remains is sure to show itself last in the excitement of political contests.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)
“What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics,
Of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest
remains?”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism.... Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)
“It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)