The Battle of Ypres was a series of engagements during the First World War, near the Belgian city of Ypres, between the German and the Allied armies (Belgian...
2 KB (229 words) - 00:35, 28 October 2024
Battle of Ypres (German: Dritte Flandernschlacht; French: Troisième Bataille des Flandres; Dutch: Derde Slag om Ieper), also known as the Battle of Passchendaele...
114 KB (15,485 words) - 08:04, 6 November 2024
the Second Battle of Ypres was fought from 22 April – 25 May 1915 for control of the tactically important high ground to the east and south of the Flemish...
43 KB (5,228 words) - 17:23, 18 October 2024
First Battle of Ypres (French: Première Bataille des Flandres, German: Erste Flandernschlacht, 19 October – 22 November 1914) was a battle of the First...
67 KB (8,856 words) - 06:26, 21 October 2024
Ypres (or "Wipers" as it was commonly known by the British troops) was the centre of the Battles of Ypres between German and Allied forces. Ypres is...
31 KB (3,679 words) - 06:05, 21 October 2024
The Fifth Battle of Ypres, also called the Advance in Flanders and the Battle of the Peaks of Flanders (French: Bataille des Crêtes de Flandres) is an...
16 KB (1,477 words) - 18:26, 22 October 2024
The Ypres Salient, around Ypres, in Belgium, was the scene of several battles and a major part of the Western Front during World War I. Ypres lies at...
10 KB (1,369 words) - 14:24, 3 January 2023
The Battle of the Lys, also known as the Fourth Battle of Ypres, was fought from 7 to 29 April 1918 and was part of the German spring offensive in Flanders...
22 KB (2,490 words) - 12:10, 20 October 2024
First Battle of Ypres, a battle fought during the Race to the Sea Second Battle of Flanders (21 April – 25 May 1915) - The Second Battle of Ypres Third...
856 bytes (158 words) - 02:48, 4 November 2024
Western Front (World War I) (redirect from Western Front of World War I)
4th Army planned an offensive at Ypres, site of the First Battle of Ypres in November 1914. The Second Battle of Ypres, April 1915, was intended to divert...
85 KB (10,273 words) - 22:43, 12 November 2024
In Flanders Fields (category Military history of Canada)
presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres. According to legend, fellow...
32 KB (3,465 words) - 23:34, 7 November 2024
Race to the Sea (category Military operations of World War I involving Germany)
the mutually costly and indecisive Battle of the Yser from 16 October to 2 November and the First Battle of Ypres from 19 October to 22 November. After...
74 KB (10,823 words) - 21:16, 27 October 2024
the war of movement ended at the Battle of the Yser and the First Battle of Ypres. The Germans built field fortifications to hold the ground captured...
120 KB (16,681 words) - 14:56, 3 November 2024
John McCrae (category Canadian people of Scottish descent)
Battle of Ypres, in Belgium. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields". McCrae died of pneumonia near the end of...
28 KB (2,896 words) - 00:58, 12 November 2024
Belgium, is a museum devoted to the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917 (also known as the Third Battle of Ypres). In this battle in only 100 days, almost 500,000...
4 KB (504 words) - 15:12, 20 November 2023
survived the large British and French offensives of the Nivelle Offensive and the Third Battle of Ypres, though at great cost. The British and French had...
88 KB (10,494 words) - 12:17, 11 November 2024
Canadian Expeditionary Force (category Military history of Canada)
German Empire, with an initial strength of one infantry division. The division subsequently fought at Ypres on the Western Front, with a newly raised...
40 KB (4,399 words) - 12:45, 15 October 2024
British Expeditionary Force (World War I) (category Commands of the British Army)
to the end of the First Battle of Ypres on 22 November 1914. By the end of 1914—after the battles of Mons, Le Cateau, the Aisne and Ypres—the existent...
43 KB (4,683 words) - 20:22, 13 October 2024
Canada in World War I (redirect from The Great War (battle honour))
Second Battle of Ypres, it and the remembrance poppy it inspired have become symbols of Remembrance Day throughout the Commonwealth. Rilla of Ingleside...
77 KB (8,181 words) - 17:33, 24 October 2024
troops fought the First Battle of Ypres (19 October – 22 November) against the German 4th and 6th Armies. By November 1914, most of Belgium was under German...
63 KB (8,477 words) - 11:48, 22 October 2024
Edwin Alderson (category Commanders of the Legion of Honour)
of Ypres. It was in front of Ypres on 22 April 1915 that the Canadians bore the brunt of the opening by the Imperial German Army of the 2nd Battle of...
27 KB (3,201 words) - 16:27, 27 September 2024
The Battle of Tannenberg, also known as the Second Battle of Tannenberg, was fought between Russia and Germany between 23 and 30 August 1914, the first...
45 KB (5,895 words) - 05:57, 11 November 2024
First Battle of Albert First Battle of Arras Battle of Messines (1914) Battle of the Yser Battle of Armentières First Battle of Ypres First Battle of Champagne...
57 KB (6,097 words) - 00:25, 12 November 2024
including the Second Battle of Ypres and the Battle of Passchendaele. For most of the war, the front line ran continuously from south of Nieuwpoort on the...
2 KB (187 words) - 05:06, 8 March 2024
small promontory on the edge of the Ypres Salient, with good views for the Germans across the British lines into Ypres, which gave it great tactical...
52 KB (7,178 words) - 21:32, 8 August 2024
The Battles of the Isonzo (known as the Isonzo Front by historians, Slovene: soška fronta) were a series of twelve battles between the Austro-Hungarian...
16 KB (1,248 words) - 21:39, 6 November 2024
The Battle of Caporetto (also known as the Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo, the Battle of Kobarid or the Battle of Karfreit) took place on the Italian front...
27 KB (3,017 words) - 11:45, 23 October 2024
night of 30/31 October. On 10 November, Diksmuide fell and the fighting continued further south until 22 November, in the First Battle of Ypres. The Belgian...
29 KB (3,539 words) - 04:25, 23 October 2024
Gallipoli campaign (redirect from Battle of Çanakkale)
Battle of the Marne had ended and the Belgians, British and French had suffered many casualties in the First Battle of Ypres in Flanders. The war of manoeuvre...
156 KB (18,433 words) - 04:32, 1 November 2024
during the Battle of Langemarck, the opening engagement of the First Battle of Ypres, 1st Battalion occupied a salient around the village of Langemarck...
50 KB (6,556 words) - 16:45, 8 June 2024