The 29th Division attacked towards Beaumont Hamel. Part of the attack was filmed and showed the detonation of a 40,000-pound (18,000 kg) mine, beneath Hawthorn Ridge Redoubt at 7:20 a.m., ten minutes ...
The southern flank of the British line was held by XIII Corps which attacked Montauban, with the New Army 30th Division and 18th Division. The 30th Division took its objectives by 1:00 p.m. and the 18 ...
The British inherited a number of mine workings and the chalk soil of the Somme was ideal for tunnelling. Mines were used to destroy the German defences and to provide shelter in no man's land for the ...
In July 1915 the French Commander in Chief Joseph Joffre held the first inter-Allied conference at Chantilly and in December 1915 a second conference resolved to conduct simultaneous attacks by the Fr ...
Like many major cities, Montreal has a problem with vehicular traffic congestion, especially from cities in the west island such as Pointe-Claire and Beaconsfield, and off-island suburbs such as Laval ...
Montreal is well served by media, including French and English television stations, newspapers, radio stations, and magazines. There are four over-the-air English-language television stations: CBMT-DT ...
According to Statistics Canada, at the 2006 Canadian census the city had 1,620,693 inhabitants. A total of 3,635,571 lived in the Montreal Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) at the same 2006 census, up fr ...
Montreal is in the southwest of the province of Quebec. The city covers most of the Island of Montreal at the confluence of the Saint Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers. The port of Montreal lies at one end o ...
Originally called Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill in the heart of the city. According to one theory, the name derives from mont Réal, as it was s ...
Main article: Military history of Canada during World War ICanada entered World War I on 4 August 1914. Colonel Sam Hughes was the Canadian Minister of Militia and on 10 August he was permitted to cre ...
American libertarians oppose conscription and call for the abolition of the Selective Service System, believing that impressment of individuals into the armed forces is involuntary servitude. Ron Paul ...
Traditionally conscription has been limited to the male population. Women and handicapped males have been exempt from conscription. Many societies have traditionally considered military service as a t ...
Conscription, which was called "Service Duty" (Dutch: dienstplicht) in the Netherlands, was first employed in 1810 by French occupying forces. Napoleon's brother Louis Bonaparte, who was King of Holla ...
Around the reign of Hammurabi (1791–1750 BC), the Babylonian Empire used a system of conscription called Ilkum. Under that system those eligible were required to serve in the royal army in time of wa ...
50.890°N 2.937°E (now Saint Juliaan)Positions on about 30 April, before the British pullbackThe village of St. Julien had been comfortably in the rear of the 1st Canadian Division until the poison g ...
