Category: Canadian soldiers

• The Liberation of Broglie, France: A Triumph of the 4th Canadian Armoured Division

  

  Guest Post by M. Raoul Boyer Video Description: The machine-gunner/assistant driver of a Sherman tank belonging to the 22nd Armoured Regiment (The Canadian Grenadier Guards) is given a glass of wine to drink by a Frenchwoman during a pause in the advance. FFI volunteers and townspeople gather in small groups in the rain to greet…

  September 12, 2025

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• Approximately 1,000 Irish American Fenian insurgents invaded Canada from Buffalo, N.Y., and engaged 840 Canadian militia volunteers at the Battle of Ridgeway. June 2, 1866.

  June 2, 2024

  1800s, Battle of Ridgeway, Canadian soldiers, Fenian Raids, Fenians, History Daily, Irish Canadians, John O’Neill, Ontario

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