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noun • 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 • 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 • 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 | ||||||||
| 68% | 10 | Do major, re major, mi major, fa major, sol major, la major, ti major, do major | ||||||
noun • a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 3rd and 4th and 7th and 8th | ||||||||
| 34% | 6 | Site of major military engagements | ||||||
noun • the town was taken from the Turks by the Russians in 1877 after a siege of 143 days | ||||||||
Three Major Engagements Here Contributing To Military Presence Crossword Clue
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YPRES which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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YPRES
Updated: October 14, 2023
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