Canadians On The Somme

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    Slaughter On The Somme

    July 1, 2011 by John Boileau
    On July 1, 1916, a largely volunteer British army attacked a well-trained and well-entrenched German force. It was the blackest day in British military history. By its end, more casualties had been suffered than any day before or since—a shocking 30,000 in the first hour,...