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Riding into battle : Canadian cyclists in the Great War / Ted Glenn.

by Glenn, Ted, 1960-

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940.41271 G558r

Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Corps. Cyclist Battalion.

Military cycling -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.

World War, 1914-1918 -- Regimental histories -- Canada.

9781459742611 (pbk.)

175 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Battle of the Humber -- The trenches -- Amiens the full power of manoeuvre -- Arras : a very difficult and tiring task -- Canal du Nord : sticky fighting -- Cambrai : take advantage of any opening -- Pursuit from the Sensée : their "most telling work" -- Valenciennes and Mons -- Occupying force.

"Cyclist troops in Canada's armed forces spent most of the First World War digging trenches, patrolling roads, and delivering dispatches. But during the Hundred Days campaign at the end of the Great War, Canada's Cyclist troops came into their own. At Amiens, Cambrai, and especially the Pursuit from the Sensée, the Cyclists made pioneering contributions to the development of the Canadian Corps's combined arms strategy and mobile warfare doctrine, all the while exhibiting the consummate professionalism the Corps became renowned for."--From publisher.

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