Military History Archives - Legion Magazine https://legionmagazine.com/category/canadian-military-history-in-perspective/ Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:43:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://legionmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/cropped-favicon-LM-32x32.jpg Military History Archives - Legion Magazine https://legionmagazine.com/category/canadian-military-history-in-perspective/ 32 32 Levy’s gamble https://legionmagazine.com/levys-gamble/ https://legionmagazine.com/levys-gamble/#respond Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:43:42 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=99282 A British-Canadian soldier risks it all in the Battle of Kapyong

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/levys-gamble/feed/ 0 Cratered https://legionmagazine.com/cratered/ https://legionmagazine.com/cratered/#respond Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:28:34 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=99101 After British tunnellers blasted mines in the St. Eloi area, the Canadian Corps fought hopelessly to hold the devastated landscape.

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/cratered/feed/ 0 Heroes and Villians: Alderson vs Albrecht https://legionmagazine.com/heroes-and-villians-alderson-vs-albrecht/ https://legionmagazine.com/heroes-and-villians-alderson-vs-albrecht/#respond Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:54:15 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=99097 The disastrous April 1916 Battle of St. Eloi Craters had a lasting impact on the Canadians

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/heroes-and-villians-alderson-vs-albrecht/feed/ 0 The last invasion https://legionmagazine.com/the-last-invasion/ https://legionmagazine.com/the-last-invasion/#respond Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:41:04 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=99056 Between 1866 and 1871, Irish-American insurgents known as Fenians raided Canada from the U.S. in support of Ireland’s independence from Britain

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/the-last-invasion/feed/ 0 Drug Problem https://legionmagazine.com/drug-problem/ https://legionmagazine.com/drug-problem/#respond Thu, 19 Feb 2026 13:51:31 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=98769 How the Canadian Expeditionary Force got wrapped up in a Great War cocaine controversy

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/drug-problem/feed/ 0 Con Air https://legionmagazine.com/con-air/ https://legionmagazine.com/con-air/#respond Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:20:05 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=98688 Illustrious in the sky, notorious on the ground: the wild life of RCAF flight instructor and ace Harold (Whitey) Dahl

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/con-air/feed/ 0 Heroes and Villians: Kendall and Hill Vs Iraqi fast-patrol boat https://legionmagazine.com/heroes-and-villians-kendall-and-hill-vs-iraqi-fast-patrol-boat/ https://legionmagazine.com/heroes-and-villians-kendall-and-hill-vs-iraqi-fast-patrol-boat/#respond Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:16:15 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=98617 On Jan. 30, 1991, two Royal Canadian Air Force pilots fired Canada’s first shots in the Persian Gulf War

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/heroes-and-villians-kendall-and-hill-vs-iraqi-fast-patrol-boat/feed/ 0 Letters of war https://legionmagazine.com/letters-of-war/ https://legionmagazine.com/letters-of-war/#respond Wed, 07 Jan 2026 14:10:51 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=98445 Pilot Officer Albert Norman Gould was missing in action after his Lancaster was shot down on Nov. 4, 1944, during an Allied bombing raid over Bochum, Germany. It was a year later, and two months before the above letter, when his parents received news that he was presumed dead.

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/letters-of-war/feed/ 0 God rest ye weary gentlemen https://legionmagazine.com/god-rest-ye-weary-gentlemen/ https://legionmagazine.com/god-rest-ye-weary-gentlemen/#respond Mon, 22 Dec 2025 14:44:53 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=98363 Reminiscences of four Second World War Christmases

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/god-rest-ye-weary-gentlemen/feed/ 0 Canada’s connections to the F-35 https://legionmagazine.com/canadas-connections-to-the-f-35/ https://legionmagazine.com/canadas-connections-to-the-f-35/#comments Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:07:34 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=98285 “We are full steam ahead…focused on making sure we’ve got the infrastructure, the pilots, the training in place for the arrival of those F-35s,” Deputy Defence Minister Stefanie Beck told a House of Commons committee in early October 2025. Despite more recent media speculation that Canada may abandon its $27.7 billion purchase of 88 of …

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