Since we’re duking it out with the Canadians, we should remember, especially today, another face of our neighbor: the counterattack on the advancing Prussian guard at the second battle of Ypres.
”[T]he Canadian reserves moved up to occupy the empty section of the line.They were an astonishing spectalce for a regular soldier,for they were advancing apparently without any discipline at all under a fire so intense that by our standards any advance would be impossible except by the finesttroops under the most rigorous discipline. They were laughing and talking and walking along in any formation, while the heavy sheels we called Jack Johnson–after the Negro boxing champion: they were 5.9s and capable of wiping out a whole platoon with one explosion–were crashing among them in the most severeconcentration of artillery firemen had yetknown. [Shortly thereafter] that event very rare in war occurred, a bayonet fight in which both sides stood firm.” quoted in The Patriot Game, Peter Brimelow.
They stood on guard for thee.