Canada and the Battle of Passchendaele | The Canadian Encyclopedia
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the Battle of Passchendaele is remembered as a symbol of the worst horrors of the First World War, the sheer futility of much of the fighting, and the reckless disregard by some of the war’s senior leaders for the lives of the men under their command. Haig proposed a major offensive in the Ypres sal
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- the Battle of Passchendaele is remembered as a symbol of the worst horrors of the First World War, the sheer futility of much of the fighting, and the reckless disregard by some of the war’s senior leaders for the lives of the men under their command.
- Haig proposed a major offensive in the Ypres salient, a long-held bulge in the Allied front lines in the Flanders region of Belgium.
- 31 July to 10 November 1917
- pres salient on the Western Front, in Belgium, where German and Allied armies had been deadlocked for three years
- break through German lines by capturing a ridge near the ruined village of Passchendaele
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