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Description: Facing possible humiliating defeat in Quebec, General Wolfe goes against his three brigadiers' plans for an invasion upriver, after bad weather causes delays. Instead, Wolfe wanders downriver and lands 5000 men at l'Anse au Foulon, a point which offered no plausible route to the fortress. From the television series "Canada: A People's History." Includes links to educational resources, bibliography, games, puzzles, and video clips.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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Description: General James Wolfe launches an invasion of Quebec at the Beauport trenches. The assault fails, and the Governor the Marquis de Vaudreuil is jubilant. From the television series "Canada: A People's History." Includes links to educational resources, bibliography, games, puzzles, video clips, and biography of General Montcalm.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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Description: Synopsis of television episode on the attack on Dieppe, France, on August 18, 1942. Includes background information and personal accounts. This episode is part of the "Canada: A People's History" series. Includes links to educational resources, bibliography, games, puzzles, and video clips.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Title: Witness to D-Day
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Description: Matthew Halton reports from England, 2 days after the D-day invasion of Normandy beaches. He recounts the events leading up to and during that fateful day.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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Description: Synopsis of television episode on the D-Day invasion force on June 6, 1944, which has been called the beginning of the end of the Second World War. Describes events leading to the Battle of Normandy. This episode is part of the "Canada: A People's History" series. Includes links to educational resources, bibliography, games, puzzles, and video clips.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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Description: In June 1942, some 8,500 Japanese personnel, supported by naval forces, occupied the islands of Attu and Kiska, American parts of Alaska at the western end of the Aleutian island chain. Their aim, which was successful, was to distract the Allies and cause them to take resources away from more significant areas in the central Pacific. When the landings finally went ashore, the troops found that the Japanese soldiers had slipped away. Newspaper articles of the day discussed the battles of the far north.
Site: Canadian War Museum
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Description: Five thousand Canadian troops, along with a thousand British troops, attacked the French port of Dieppe on the English Channel Coast in August 1942. The purpose was to make a successful raid on German-occupied Europe over water, and then to hold Dieppe briefly. The results were disastrous.
Site: Canadian War Museum
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Description: Canadian involvement in the battle of the Netherlands was appreciated both by allied governments and the Dutch people. The actions of Canadian troops during combat and afterwards, assisting the population, were preserved in the archives of the "Hamilton Spectator."
Site: Canadian War Museum
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Description: This ship was part of the force escorting Canadian troops to the D-Day landings in Normandy, 6 June 1944. (Canadian Department of National Defence, ZK-1084)
Site: National Defence
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Description: Certain strategic lessons were learned by the military during the raid on Dieppe. These lessons were used in the planning of the invasion of Normandy and Operation "OVERLORD".
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Site: National Defence
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