Watch For King Empire online: Episode 2 Slaughter and Sacrifice: The Canadians on the Somme – 1916

On July 1, 1916, the first day of the battle of the Somme, 60,000 British soldiers fall. But the British continue their offensive. And, finally, the High Command orders in the Canadians. Supported by the first tanks ever used in battle, Canadian troops assault German fortifications at Courcelette and then at Regina trench. They slog to victory and suffer 25,000 casualties on the battlefield known as "the graveyard of armies."

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