The Battle of Billings Bridge
A story of Canadian heroism
6 min readFeb 14, 2022
It was a cold February day in Ottawa, Ontario, the capital city of Canada. A pair of men on horseback rode down the snowy streets, between rows of transport trucks moored to the ice. The video zoomed in on the second figure, proudly waving his blood-red flag high in the air — and the caption read: “the calvary has arrived”.