Definitions
There are 3 meanings of the phrase
Battle Of Ypres.
Battle Of Ypres - as a 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
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battle of passchendaelethird battle of ypresypresBattle 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
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second battle of ypresypresBattle 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
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first battle of ypresypres
