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Ypres, Battles of
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Ypres, Battles of three battles in World War I fought near Ypres, western Belgium, which was a key point of an Allied salient that blocked the Germans from approaching the English Channel. Mainly British and some Canadian forces were engaged against the Germans in all of the battles. The first battle, in late 1914, stopped a German march toward the sea but resulted in the Allied forces being surrounded. The second battle, in the spring of 1915, marked the first occasion on which poison gas (chlorine, by the Germans) was used as a weapon, against the rules of the
Hague Convention. Casualties were in the tens of thousands on both sides. The last battle in July to November of 1917, also called the battle of Passchendaele, was the longest and bloodiest. It was fought in torrential rains with a quarter of a million casualties on both sides, and an effective pushback of the German line of only five miles.
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Ypres haunted by the echoes of war.
Newspaper article from: Birmingham Mail (England); 5/23/2009; 700+ words
; Byline: Carl Chinn YPRES is a place that has seared itself into...the Great War. This metamorphosis of Ypres into a focal point of remembrance began...terrible toll. From this the First Battle of Ypres, a salient emerged - a bulge punching...
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Where the poppies blow: In Ypres, Great War lives on.(Travel)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 11/6/1999; ; 700+ words
; YPRES, Belgium - Poppies still bloom in Flanders...the badge of recognition for visitors to Ypres and the Great War's killing fields, a bulge in the battle lines known as the Ypres Salient. Poppies, which still bloom in...
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The painful lessons of chemical warfare: gas, mud, and blood at Ypres.
Magazine article from: Military Review; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...with significant lessons for the future, Ypres reminds us of one of the greatest fears...the German Army introduced poison gas at Ypres, France, in an effort to break the stalemate...nearly 13,000 gas-related casualties, Ypres marked the first successful demonstration...
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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Travel: Lasting legacy of Ypres; IAIN MAYHEW visits the scene of WWIgas attack that sickened the world.(Review)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 11/9/2002; 700+ words
; ...a comparatively uneventful one on the Ypres Salient in Flanders. A few desultory German shells had landed in Ypres, a once-attractive market town which...now deployed in the German lines facing Ypres. Intelligence reports of their existence...
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 "South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)")
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Every day for 75 years - Ypres' tribute.(Features)
Newspaper article from: South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales); 11/13/2001; 609 words
; ...at a moving ceremony - the Last Post at Ypres THE misty air hangs still. The hushed...Belgian city of Ieper - the local name for Ypres. The setting is the vast British military...in November 1918, it was decided that Ypres would be the setting for a memorial on...
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Arts: All go on the Western Front The First World War will soon disappear from living memory. On a visit to Ypres, ROBERT HANKS asks whether museums should be updating their exhibitions for the PlayStation generation
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...the Allied armies entrenched in the salient north of Ypres saw a yellow-grey fog drifting toward them from the...this was later referred to as the Second Battle of Ypres. I was in Ypres 10 days ago, with a party of journalists on a trip...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Ypres veterans return; Lest we forget: Centenarians honoured at First World War memorial.(ROP)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 7/25/2002; 483 words
; ...of fallen comrades at the Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium, yesterday Three First World War veterans were feted through the streets of Ypres yesterday when they returned to recall...those who disappeared during the battles of Ypres Salient are in a neighbouring cemetery...
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 "Sunday Mirror (London, England)")
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My trip to remember; PAY TRIBUTE TO FALLEN HEROES IN YPRES.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Sunday Mirror (London, England); 11/9/2003; 700+ words
; ...before in the playground. It shows the Ypres Salient and the surrounding villages that...of World War I - we remember places like Ypres and Poperinge. The people of Belgium are...nearly 90 years ago can now be enjoyed in Ypres' fine array of bars and restaurants...
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 "Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)")
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Pupils salute fallen hero; Ypres quest ends in mark of respect for Tees soldier.(News)
Newspaper article from: Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England); 10/31/2008; 700+ words
; ...McGee found out his son would be visiting Ypres, the scene of First World War battles...Appleton was killed in the second battle of Ypres on April 25, 1915, and was buried there...13 Ian Ramsey pupils in Year 9 visited Ypres as part of an exchange with a Dutch school...
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Gourmet Pidy.(services and growth of the family bakery Patisserie Industrielle Dehaeck Ypres)
Magazine article from: Food Trade Review; 2/1/2005; 700+ words
; ...The family was Dehaeck, the town was Ypres, and their industrial patisserie production...PIDY--Patisserie Industrielle Dehaeck Ypres. Company founder Andre Dehaeck was an...Compare this with the present-day Pidy Ypres factory of 10,000[m.sup.2] (below...
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battles of Ypres
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
battles of Ypres three major engagements of World War I fought in and around the town of Ypres in SW Belgium. The first battle of Ypres (Oct.-Nov., 1914) was the last of the series of engagements referred to as "the race for the sea...
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Ypres, Battles of (World War I)
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
Ypres, Battles of (World War I) There were a total of four battles near the Belgian city of Ypres, representing various attempts by the belligerents...captured the Messines ridge, but failed to take Ypres or to reach the Channel ports. 2. Another...
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Ypres
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Ypres a town in SW Belgium, near the border with France...World War, and now site of the Menin Gate. Battle of Ypres the name given to each of three battles on the Western Front near Ypres during the First World War in 1914, 1915, and 1917...
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Ypres, Battles of
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Ypres, Battles of Several battles of World War I fought around the Belgian town of Ypres. The first (October–November 1914) stopped the German ‘race to the sea’ to capture the Channel ports, but resulted in...
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John Denton Pinkstone French Ypres, 1st earl of
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
John Denton Pinkstone French Ypres, 1st earl of see French, John Denton Pinkstone, 1st earl of Ypres .
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