Arthur Currie

LIEUTENANT--GENERAL SIR ARTHUR CURRIE (A brief account of the battle of Passchendaele)      Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Currie was the most capable soldier that Canada has produced. Certainly, he did not look like the great soldier he had become. A very tall man, at six-foot-four, he was also somewhat overweight. Through his successes as the Commander of the Canadian Corps, he knew how to delegate authority and stand by the decisions of his subordinates.      Currie

I was more than grateful to discover a parcel of crackers and supplies arrive in my name. I thank you for your remarkable support towards me over the course of this seemingly endless war. After spending a year and a half under constant hell fire in a strange and distant place, I am more than eager to come home to you. When I initially enlisted in the Royal Army, I felt it was my duty to defend our glorious Empire against the malevolent hands of the vicious Jerries. I expected to gloriously march

One of Canada’s largest military endeavors was the battle of Vimy Ridge during World War One. It was a fierce battle between Germans and Canadians. Canada was trying to take over the German controlled ridge, which ran from northwest to southwest between Lens and Arras, France. Its highest point was 145 feet above sea level, which was exceptionally helpful in battle because of the very flat landscape. Already over 200,000 men had fallen at Vimy, all desperately trying to take or defend this important

also wanting to test their new invention called chlorine gas. The battle consisted of the United Kingdom ( Canada, Newfoundland, and British India), France, Germany, and Belgium. The English were led by their leaders Horace Smith- Dorrien and Arthur Currie. The French were led by Henri Gabriel Putz. The Belgians were led by Ceuninck and Theophile Figeys. The

“Our men are being put into the hottest fighting and are being sacrificed in harebrained ventures like Bullecourt and Passchendaele …and there is no one in War Cabinet to lift a voice in protest…so Australian interests are suffering badly and Australia is not getting anything like the recognition it deserves.” So wrote General, later Sir, John Monash to his wife on October the 18th 1917. After more than two years of fighting the romance of war had long since ebbed away for Australia’s citizens

Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Currie was the one of the most capable soldiers that Canada has had in history. Through many successes as the Commander of the Canadian Corps, he knew how to delegate authority and represent the decisions of his soldiers. Sir Arthur Currie was also one of the greatest military leaders, who did what was obligatory to help win an astonishing war, while always pursuing ways to protect his troops from offensive attacks. Arthur Currie’s sense of leadership was substantial

Arthur Andersen & Co. was founded in Chicago by Arthur Andersen, a young Northwestern University professor and his partner, Clarence DeLany in 1913 but, DeLany left the partnership in 1918 so the firm’s name was changed to Arthur Andersen and Company. (Encyclopedia of Chicago, 2005) Thus, Andersen began as a pioneer accounting firm who offered customers help with new federal income taxes and other accounting problems and its first client was the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company of Milwaukee. Unfortunately

into the plot was very innovative, because even though it had been done before, it had never been done this well. Jerome Robbins had thought of an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet to a Broadway musical in 1949. He began discussions with librettist Arthur Laurents and composer Leonard Bernstein of a musical called East Side Story, with a plot concentrating on a Catholic girl and a Jewish boy. Other projects forced the work aside for six years, and when they returned to it, times had changed. Their

What role did the great King Arthur play in the way English Literature is perceived? Did King Arthur honestly exist? “Whether King Arthur existed or not is doubtful. However if King Arthur did exist, then he would have lived sometime between 400 AD and 600 AD, a time of turmoil in Britain following the Roman withdrawl. And a time when written literature did not exist, therefore events during this period are only known about from folklore passed down several generations before being written down

Generation Lay-Z Arthur Miller’s most famous play, Death of a salesman, was published in 1949. The Broadway premiere was February 10, 1949.The setting takes place in New York and Boston in 1948. Willy Loman, and old salesman, returns home from a business trip .He returned from his business trip early because he was going off the road while he was driving. His wife Linda suggest to Willy that maybe being on the road isn’t safe for him, and that he should ask his boss ,Howard, for a local office job