معركة ڤيمي ريدج

معركة ڤيمي ريدج; Battle of Vimy Ridge
	جزء من معركة أراس على الجبهة الغربية في الحرب العالمية الأولى
	; معركة فيمي ريدج بعد رسمها من طرف ريتشارد جاك. متحف الحرب الكندي.
التاريخ	9 April – 12 April 1917
المسقط	ڤيمي، باد كاليه، فرنسا
الخصوم
كندا; United Kingdom	الإمبراطورية الألمانية
القادة والزعماء
Julian Byng ; Arthur Currie	Ludwig von Falkenhausen
القوات
5 divisions totalling; 170,000 men	3 divisions totalling; 30,000–45,000 men
الخسائر
3,598 dead,; 7,004 wounded	unknown dead or wounded,; 4,000 captured

Coordinates:

معركة ڤيمي ريدج دارت رحاها خلال الحرب العالمية الأولى (1914 – 1918م)، وحققت فيها القوات الكندية نصرًا مؤزرًا على الألمان. في هذه المعركة، استولى الكنديون على فيمي ردج، وهوتل ذومسقط استراتيجي يقع بالقرب من مدينة أراس في شمالي فرنسا.

الخلفية

Location of the Battle of Vimy Ridge

الاستعدادات للهجوم

The Canadian Corps plan of attack outlining the four coloured objective lines – Black, Red, Blue and Brown

Map showing rolling artillery barrage for advance

Large scale-model of German trench lines

العمليات تحت الأرض

British-dug fighting tunnel in Vimy sector

المعركة في الجو

An observer of the Royal Flying Corps in a reconnaissance aircraft

المعركة

Position of the defending and attacking forces before the battle

6-inch naval gun firing over Vimy Ridge behind Canadian lines at night

Artillery attack on a field of barbed wire at Vimy Ridge

2nd Canadian Division soldiers advance behind a tank

Machine gunners operating from craters on the plateau above the ridge

German soldiers captured during the battle.

بدأت المعركة فيتسعة أبريل عام 1917م، حين كانت الفيالق الكندية جزءاً من الجيش البريطاني، كما كانت المعركة جزءًا من خطط الهجوم البريطانية لفصل الربيع. هاجم البريطانيون أراس بينما كان الكنديون يهاجمون التل. وقد كان الهدف الأساسي من الهجوم طرد الألمان بعيدًا عن مدينة إين الواقعة في جنوبي فرنسا والتي كان الفرنسيون يعدون للهجوم عليها بعد أسبوع. أما الهدف الآخر فكان الاستيلاء على فيمي ردج وأراس. استولى الكنديون على التل في 14 أبريل، وقُتل في هذه المعركة 3,598 من المائة ألف كندي المشاركين في المعركة، بينما كان عدد الجرحى 7,004. لقد نجح الهجوم البريطاني، وأخفق الفرنسيون وكذلك قوات الحلفاء.

تخليد ذكرى المعركة

The 1936 unveiling of the Vimy Ridge Memorial; the sculpture represents Canada mourning her fallen sons.

الهامش

المصادر

^ خطأ استشهاد: وسم <ref> غير سليم؛ لا نص تم توفيره للمراجع المسماة Nicholson 229
^ خطأ استشهاد: وسم <ref> غير سليم؛ لا نص تم توفيره للمراجع المسماة Turner 21-22
^ خطأ استشهاد: وسم <ref> غير سليم؛ لا نص تم توفيره للمراجع المسماة Moran 139
^ Nicholson p. 265

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