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Ypres

Ypres Meaning & Definition
Ypres Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Ypres?

[n] battle in World War I (1914); heavy but indecisive fighting as the Allies and the Germans both tried to break through the lines of the others
[n] battle in World War I (1915); Germans wanted to try chlorine (a toxic yellow gas) as a weapon and succeeded in taking considerable territory from the Allied salient
[n] battle in World War I (1917); an Allied offensive which eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of Flanders; Germans introduced mustard gas which interfered with the Allied artillery

Synonyms | Synonyms for Ypres: battle of Ypres | first battle of Ypres | second battle of Ypres | third battle of Ypres

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See Also | Belgique | Belgium | First World War | Great War | Kingdom of Belgium | pitched battle | War to End War | World War | World War I

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