Vimy Ridge is an accomplishment by great Canadian victory of the First World War But it was victory at a heavy cost: 3,598 Canadians were killed and another 7,000 wounded.Canadians carefully plan and rehearse their attack to provide greater flexibility and firepower in battle, the infantry were given specialist roles as machine-gunners, riflemen and grenade throwers. To bring men safely forward to the other side engineers dug deep tunnels from the rear to the front. And wall of high explosives and shrapnel to force. More than 15,000 Canadian infantry over ran the Germans all along the front. The Canadian operation was an important success
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