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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old

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The Royal Canadian Armoured Corps

Role of Armour:
To defeat the enemy through the aggressive use of firepower and battlefield mobility.
Motto of the Armoured Corps:
Through the mud and the blood to the green fields beyond.
(General Worthington)
Regiments of the Armoured Corps:
From West to East:
- The British Columbia Regiment (Vancouver, BC)
- The British Columbia Dragoons (Kelowna, BC)
- Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) (Edmonton, AB) *
- King's Own Calgary Regiment (Calgary,AB)
- South Alberta Light Horse (Edmonton and Medicine Hat, AB) (B Sqn)
- Saskatchewan Dragoons (Moose Jaw, SK)
- The Fort Garry Horse (McGregor Armoury, Winnipeg Manitoba, R2W 1A8)
- Windsor Regiment (Windsor, ON)
- The 1st Hussars (London and Sarnia, ON)
- The Queen's York Rangers (Toronto and Aurora, ON)
- The Governor General's Horse Guards (Toronto, ON)
- The Ontario Regiment (Oshawa, ON)
- The Royal Canadian Dragoons (Petawawa, ON) *
- Le Regiment de Hull (Hull, PQ)
- The Royal Canadian Hussars (Montreal and St. Hubert, PQ)
- Le 12e Regiment Blinde du Canada (Milice) (Trois-Rivieres, PQ)
- Le 12e Regiment Blinde du Canada (BFC Valcartier, PQ) *
- The Sherbrooke Hussars (Sherbrooke, PQ)
- The 8th Canadian Hussars (Moncton and Sussex, NB)
- The Prince Edward Island Regiment (Charlottetown and Summerside, PEI)
NOTE: Regiment's denoted with a * are Regular, the remaining Regiments are Reserve.
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August 20
1914: World War I: German forces occupy Brussels
1940: Chuchill's speech "Never in the field of human conflict..."
1944: Allies close Falaise Gap
1968: The "Prague Spring" abruptly ended when 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invaded Czechoslovakia
1998: U.S. Embassy Bombings: The United States military launches cruise missile attacks against alleged Al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum is destroyed in the attack.
636: Arab forces led by Khalid bin Walid took contol of Syria and Palestine in the Battle of Yarmuk
917: Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria invaded Thrace and drove the Byzantines out.
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