1.The seven -kilometre long vimy ridge in northern france 2.Previous unsuccesful french and british attack had suffered over 150,000 casualities 3.In early 1917, british high command ordered the canadian corps to capture the position as part a larger spring offensive in arras areas 4.In the coming campaign, british forces to the south would have limited success 5.the canadian attack against vimy ridge would be spectacular by comparison 6.lieutenant-general sir julian byng, the canadian corps commander, ordered new tactics for the comming assault 7.Having learned from the battle of the somme, intense training better prepared soldiers for what they might find on the battlefield 8.Small units and individual soldiers were given much more information about the battle 9.A tramendous artillery barrage, which included improved techniques for counter-battery 10.The german position and isolate enemy troops in their dougouts 11. At 5:30a.m on 9 april 1917, easter monday nearly 1,000 guns opened fire on the german 12.An estimated 15,000 canadians rose from the trenches and advanced toeard the ridge 13.Canadians captured most of the ridge on 9th, and remaining portions of it by the 12th 14.Over four days of bloody fighting, the canadians had overrun vimmy ridge the cost of more than 10,600 killed and wounded 15.The battle since become an important symbol for canada, the place from across the country delivered an unprecedented victory