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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: U.S. Ninth Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Ninth Army was the fourth US Army to come into action in France, after First Army which had taken part in the initial Overlord landings, Third Army which had first been used just after the breakout from Normandy, and Seventh Army which had landed in southern France on 15 August.
		Ninth Army was isolated from the headquarters of 12th Army Group, and it was thus placed under the command of 21st Army Group along with First Army.
		Late February and Ninth Army launched Operation Grenade, which was the southern prong of a pincer attack coordinated with Canadian First Army, with the purpose of closing the front up to the Rhine.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/U.S.-Ninth-Army (1357 words)

	Canadian First Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Units of the army led the ill-fated Dieppe Raid (the 4th and 6th Brigades of the 2nd Infantry Division and many other units) and participated in the invasion of Sicily and mainland Italy, (1st Infantry Division) subordinated to the British Eighth Army and thus for a time not part of the Canadian First Army.
		The First Canadian Army in northwestern Europe during the final phases of the war was a powerful force, the largest army that had ever been under the control of a Canadian general.
		The First Army held a static line along the Maas from December through February, then launched Operation Veritable in early February, cracking the Siegfried Line and reaching the banks of the Rhine in early March.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canadian_First_Army (459 words)

	Canadian First Army - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Canadian First Army was the overall command for the Canadian military forces in Europe during World War II.
		Units of the army led the ill-fated Dieppe Raid and participated in the invasion of Sicily and mainland Italy, subordinated to the British Eighth Army.
		The First Army held a static line along the Maas from December through February, then launched Operation Veritable in early February, cracking the Siegfried Line and reaching the banks of the Rhine in early March.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Canadian_1st_Army (242 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Canadian Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Land Force Central Area (LFCA) is responsible for all Canadian army operations and administration in the province of Ontario, from the Quebec border to the northern Lakehead region.
		LF is the descendant of the Canadian Army which was the name of Canada's land forces until February 1, 1968, although this term has never really disappeared from the LF description.
		Canadians were among the Allied troops that defeated the Germans there in early November 1944, enabling the first Allied supply ship to enter the harbor in Antwerp three weeks later.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Canadian-Army (644 words)

	U.S. Ninth Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ninth Army was the fourth US Army to come into action in France, after First Army which had taken part in the initial Overlord landings, Third Army which had first been used just after the breakout from Normandy, and Seventh Army which had landed in southern France on 15 August.
		Ninth Army was isolated from the headquarters of 12th Army Group, and it was thus placed under the command of General Bernard Montgomery's 21st Army Group along with First Army, despite opposition from General Omar Bradley.
		Late February and Ninth Army launched Operation Grenade, which was the southern prong of a pincer attack coordinated with Canadian First Army's Operation Veritable, with the purpose of closing the front up to the Rhine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/US_Ninth_Army (578 words)

	21st Army Group - www.canadiansoldiers.com
		The American 12th Army Group was activated under General Omar Bradley as the Battle of Normandy came to a close, that formation being activated on 1 Sep 1944, leaving the 21st Army Group with the First Canadian Army and 2nd British Army under command.
		First Canadian Army and the US 9th Army launched offensive operations intended to clear the final holdouts west of the river in preparation for setpiece crossings of the obstacle itself.
		Canadian First Army wheeled left and liberated northern Holland, British 2nd Army occupied much of north-west Germany and liberated Denmark, and US 9th Army formed the northern arm of the encirclement of German forces in the Ruhr pocket and, on 4 April, reverted to Bradley's 12th Army Group.
	www.canadiansoldiers.com /mediawiki-1.5.5/index.php?title=21st_Army_Group (870 words)

	Canadian First Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In the United Kingdom Canadian First Army was established on April 1 1942 and by 1943 included I Canadian and II Canadian Corps.
		By 1943 1st Canadian Army underwent its final of the war and was organized into final form for the forthcoming operations in North-West Europe and Italy.
		The army commander General Harry Crerar decided delay a direct attack on Arnhem until city and its defenders were cut off an advance across the Ijssel River to This in turn depended upon the success 3rd Canadian Division in clearing the east of the river and the cities of Zutphen and Deventer.
	www.freeglossary.com /Canadian_First_Army (2687 words)

	Canadian First Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		By August 1943, 1st Canadian Army underwent its final reorganization of the war and was organized into its final form for the forthcoming operations in North-West Europe and Italy.
		The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division arrived in the summer and autumn of 1940, and the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division was sent overseas in 1941.
		Thus, early in 1942, the First Canadian Army with two corps was formed under the command of the native-born Canadian, General Andrew McNaughton.
	www.wikiverse.org /canadian-first-army (2990 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Army was formed in early 1942 as Canadian forces in the United Kingdom expanded to two corps.
		Canadian formations in the UK consisted of, by the end of 1943, three infantry divisions, two armoured divisions, and two independent armoured brigades.
		In 1943, the 1st Canadian Infantry Division, 1st Canadian Armoured Brigade, and 5th Canadian (Armoured) Division were detached from the Army for participation in the Italian Campaign.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Canadian_First_Army (540 words)

	World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The German General Staff had badly under-estimated the size of the overall Soviet army and its ability to draft new troops and were now dismayed by the presence of new forces, including fresh Siberian troops under General Zhukov, and by the onset of a particularly cold winter.
		A decisive victory by the Canadian First Army in the Battle of the Scheldt secured the entrance to the port of Antwerp, freeing it to receive supplies by late November 1944.
		The U.S. Ninth Army went south as the northern pincer of the Ruhr encirclement and the U.S. First Army went north as the southern pincer of the Ruhr encirclement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_War_II (9376 words)

	First Canadian Army - www.canadiansoldiers.com
		First Canadian First was the senior combatant formation in North-West Europe during the Second World War.
		The main Canadian units under command were from II Canadian Corps, with I Canadian Corps returning from Italy in early 1945.
		First Canadian Army was the largest force ever commanded by a Canadian general, and ration strength of the army ranged from approximately 105,000 to 175,000 Canadians, with as many foreign nationals under command at various times.
	www.canadiansoldiers.com /mediawiki-1.5.5/index.php?title=First_Canadian_Army (538 words)

	first cause - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about first cause
		For Aristotle, matter has always existed, so the First Cause, or Prime Mover as he calls God, is not the First Cause in time but the cause of the universe's continuing existence – a sustaining cause, or reason for its existence.
		For Thomas Aquinas, the first cause is both a sustaining cause of the world and the first cause in all the causal series that make up the world.
		First Chamber of the States-General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /first+cause (330 words)

	The Battle of Germany
		Mannheim was captured by the U.S. Seventh Army on March 29th, and Nuremberg was taken on April 20th, and Munich on April 30th.
		The French First Army took Karlsruhe on April 9th, Stuttgart on April 21st, and Friedrichshafen on April 30th.
		The U.S. Ninth and First Armies took Kassel on April 4th, and Hanover on April 10th.
	library.thinkquest.org /26742/batger.html (917 words)

	Canadian First Army: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The dieppe raid or the battle of dieppe or operation jubilee was an allied (mainly canadacanadian) attack on the german-occupied port of dieppe,...
		The battle of normandy was fought in 1944 between the german forces occupying western europe and the invading american, british, and canadian forces....
		The battle of the scheldt was fought by the canadian army in world war ii of the western european campaign....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/canadian_first_army.htm (810 words)

	1945
		The U.S. First Army counter-attacks on the northern side of the Ardennes salient.
		The U.S. First Army widens the Remagen bridgehead.
		The Canadian First Army reaches the coast in northern Holland and in capture Arnhem in the South.
	www.wargamer.com /ww2timeline/1945western.asp (2849 words)

	First Canadian Army
		The 3rd Canadian Division and 2nd and 3rd Armoured Brigades landed on the...
		Because the existence of an identifiably Canadian army was important at home, Allied formations were added to the First Canadian Army to keep it up to strength.
		Accordingly, when the First Canadian Army (now commanded by Lieutenant-General H.D.G.) went into battle on the left flank in France, Belgium and Holland, clearing the Channel coast after the NORMANDY INVASION, it had more Allied than Canadian troops.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0002821 (185 words)

	First Canadian Infantry Division - Italy
		The British Eighth Army commander in his failed attempt to capture Rome decided to bleed the German Army of men and supplies by thrusting the Canadian First Infantry Division and the Canadian First Armoured Regiment at them along the east coast corridor.
		The Canadians using infantry, tanks and artillery were for a long time unable to wrest this objective from the Germans and lost many brave men to the Germans guns.
		The Canadians were, at the end of hostilities in Italy, sent to bolster the forces fighting in the Netherlands, Belgium and Holland.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/canadas_military/77211 (535 words)

	Operation Grenade
		The Ninth Army, under command of Montgomery's Twenty-first Army since the Battle of the Bulge, was to cross the Roer and linkup with the Canadians coming from the Nijmegen area of Holland.
		Coverage of the right flank of the Ninth Army was assigned to the VII Corps of the U.S. First Army commanded by Maj Gen J. Lawton Collins and on loan from First Army for this task.
		Next in line was the Sixth Army Group, on the south end of the line, commanded by Lt. General Jacob L. Devers, and it was to remain on the defensive until Bradley reached the Rhine.
	www.104infdiv.org /grenade.htm (2025 words)

	Definition of British 21st Army Group
		However, when sufficient American forces had landed, their own 12th Army Group was activated, under General Omar Bradley, and 21st Army Group was left with British Second Army and Canadian First Army.
		Canadian First Army wheeled left and liberated northern Holland, British Second Army occupied much of north-west Germany and liberated Denmark, and US Ninth Army helped to encircle the remaining German forces in the Ruhr pocket and on 4 April reverted to Bradley's 12th Army Group.
		It was redesignated the British Army of the Rhine on 25 August 1945, and would eventually form the nucleus of the British forces stationed in Germany throughout the Cold War.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/British_21st_Army_Group (738 words)

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		Despite the early arrival of the Maharajah, the first Sikh Gurdwara (temple) was not established until 1911, at Putney in London.
		At the close of the First Sikh War in 1846 it was decided to conciliate the men of the defeated Khalsa Army and to enlist Sikhs in the Honourable East India Company's service.
		LAHORE — Dr Gulab Singh Shaheen — the first Sikh to be recruited as traffic warden in the City Traffic Police — says he is proud to be a Pakistani and is ready to sacrifice even his life for it.Gulab hails from Nankana Sahib and has settled on Bedian Road near Defence.
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	The Hins World War II Collection - The Netherlands
		Although the First Canadian Army, as such, took no part in the crossings, the troops of the 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade, under British command, participated in the crossing of the Rhine at Rees, and the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, still with the 6th Airborne Division, dropped successfully east of the river near Wesel.
		The Canadian Army's role in these final days of the war was to open up the supply route to the north through Arnhem, and then to clear the northeastern Netherlands, the coastal belt of Germany eastward to the Elbe River, and western Holland.
		In the Western Netherlands the 1st Canadian Corps, comprising the 1st Canadian Infantry Division, and the 5th Canadian Armoured Division, under the command of Lieutenant-General Charles Foulkes, was responsible for the liberation of the area north of the Maas River.
	home.hetnet.nl /~pa3geg/Netherlands.htm (1776 words)

	Normandy, British, Isles, Inshore, Thane, Manners, Walpole, Icarus, Amethyst, Hart, Peacock, Starling, HMS
		Meanwhile the British 21st Army Group is to move south from Caen on Falaise, the British Second Army on the right and Canadian First Army on the left.
		US First Army's push east is stopped on the 7th when the Germans strongly counter-attack through Mortain towards the American bottleneck at Avranches.
		First Army gets to the Elbe at Torgau south of Berlin on the 25th and is the first to meet the advancing Russians.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsWFront1944.htm (6286 words)

	3rd Canadian Infantry Division Gallantry Decorations 1945
		The Canadian First Army was to play a decisive role in the final offensive by the northern Army Group to clear the west bank of the Rhine before the final thrust on Berlin could begin.
		In Operation VERITABLE, the Canadian First Army would attack south from Nijmegen, to break through the Siegfried Line and link up with the US Ninth Army which was to advance across the Roer River in the south.
		II Canadian Corps attacked this zone in the early hours of 26 February, with the 3rd Division attacking on the right of the Corps' front.
	www.ncf.ca /~em575/rhine.htm (513 words)

	British Second Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		During World War I, the army was formed on December 26, 1914 when the British Expeditionary Force was split in two due tobecoming too big to control its subordinate formations.
		Whilst it pinned down the German forces facing it, the Canadian First Army and US Ninth Army made a pincer movement from north and south which piered the Siegfried Line in that area and cleared the remaining German forces west of the Rhine in conjunctionwith further American offensives in the south of the Rhineland.
		Second Army reached the Weser on 4 April, the Elbe on 19 April on by 7 May the Soviet Army had met up with theBritish forces and the shore of the Baltic Sea had been reached.
	www.therfcc.org /british-second-army-200076.html (684 words)

	List of armies by number: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Canadian First Army (Canadian First Army: the canadian first army was the overall command for the canadian military forces in europe...
		British Fifth Army (British Fifth Army: the british fifth army was a field army of the british expeditionary force during the...
		Turkish Fifth Army (Turkish Fifth Army: the turkish fifth army was formed on march 24, 1915 with the responsibilty for the...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/list_of_armies_by_number (749 words)

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