The 100 days.
In the final 100 days of the First World War the Canadian Corps fought six major battles. They advanced a total of 86 miles and liberated 500 square miles of territory and 228 cities, towns and villages including the cities of Cambrai, Denain, Valenciennes and Mons. They engages and defeated 47 German Divisions and captured 31,537 prisoners, 623 heavy and field guns, 336 trench mortars and 2842 machine guns. The Canadians suffered a total of 45,830 casualties.
For the entire war, the duration of Americans operations lasted only 47 days. In that time they fought only two major battles. They employed more that six times as many troops as the Canadian Corps did in the 100 days; they suffered more than twice as many casualties and accomplished less than half of what the Canadian Corps did.
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