# What is your country’s “Vimy Ridge”? (Greatest or worst battle)

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**Created:** [August 24, 2021, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-country-s-vimy-ridge-greatest-or-worst-battle/949409 "2021-08-24T01:57:16Z")\
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> [@RickJay](#):
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> If you’re going to name the GREATEST British victory, though, I’d think a few would rank ahead of Quebec City. Certainly the most impactful was, I guess, Hastings.

Hastings? That battle where the English army was defeated and the king was killed, and England was conquered by foreign invaders?

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