the city's French name Ypres is most commonly used in English.[citation needed] The municipality comprises the city of Ypres/Ieper and the villages of...
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Battle of Passchendaele (redirect from Third Battle of Ypres)
in the new year. The Battle of the Lys (Fourth Battle of Ypres) and the Fifth Battle of Ypres of 1918, were fought before the Allies occupied the Belgian...
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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...
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of Ypres may refer to: Siege of Ypres (1383), during Despenser's Crusade Siege of Ypres (1583–1584), during the Eighty Years' War Siege of Ypres (1658)...
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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 town of Ypres in...
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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...
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Woods of Ypres was formed in Windsor, Ontario in 2002 by David Gold, Aaron Palmer and Brian McManus. The trio released the first Woods of Ypres demo, Against...
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of Ypres. Attacks by the BEF (Field Marshal Sir John French) the Belgians and the French Eighth Army in Belgium made little progress beyond Ypres. The...
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Battle of the Lys (1918) (redirect from Fourth Battle of Ypres)
retirement in the Ypres Salient to the Mt Kemmel, Voormezeele (2.5 mi (4.0 km) south of Ypres), White Château (1 mi (1.6 km) east of Ypres) to Pilckem Ridge...
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of Ypres also comprises the municipalities of Staden and Moorslede in the Arrondissement of Roeselare. The Administrative Arrondissement of Ypres consists...
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Earl of Ypres was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was a victory title, referring to the Flemish city of Ypres, which gave its name the...
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Menin Gate (redirect from Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial)
Missing, is a war memorial in Ypres, Belgium, dedicated to the British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in the Ypres Salient of World War I and...
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Stephen of Blois. Ypres was besieged a month later on the 26 April by William Clito and Louis VI. After bitter fighting, the gates of Ypres were opened by...
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Iron harvest (redirect from Post-conflict Bombs and Mines in Ypres)
front. As many as one in every four shells fired did not detonate. In the Ypres Salient, an estimated 300 million projectiles that the British and the German...
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Ypres, in present-day Belgium, existed from 1559 to 1801. Its seat was Saint Martin's Cathedral in Ypres. In 1969 it was reconstituted...
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of Ypres performed by members of the British Armed Forces. In 1926, Summers directed another battle reconstruction film titled Mons. In 2010, Ypres was...
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Rye Castle (redirect from Ypres Tower)
2018. Historic England. "THE YPRES TOWER (1251521)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 27 July 2014. "Ypres Tower and part of Rye Town Wall...
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Ieperlee (redirect from Ypres-IJzer Canal)
Ieperlee (or Ypres-Ijzer Canal) is a canalized river that rises in Heuvelland in the Belgian province of West Flanders and flows via the city of Ypres (Ieper)...
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French, 1st Earl of Ypres. The grave of John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, in Ripple, Kent Works by John French, 1st Earl of Ypres at Project Gutenberg...
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or Lakenhalle) is a large cloth hall, a medieval commercial building, in Ypres, Belgium. The original structure was erected mainly between 1200 and 1304...
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remained east of the Scheldt river. The next target of the French was Ypres. Because Ypres was defended by a larger garrison than Menen, and its fortresses...
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HMS Delight (D119) (redirect from HMS Ypres (I05))
HMS Delight was a Daring-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy, launched in 1950 as the Royal Navy's first all-welded warship, and broken up at Inverkeithing...
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Shooter's Hill (redirect from Ypres Milestone)
miles to Ypres: in defending the salient our casualties were 90,000 killed, 70,500 missing, 450,000 wounded", commemorating the Battle of Ypres. Shrewsbury...
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scientific and technological advances. On 22 April 1915, at the Second Battle of Ypres, the Germans (violating the Hague Convention) used chlorine gas for the...
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Gabain) First Battle of Ypres, 1914 Second Battle of Ypres, 1915 Battle of Passchendaele, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres, 1917 Battle of the Lys...
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Zwarteleen area of Zillebeke south of Ypres, Belgium. It is located about 4.6 kilometres (2.9 mi) from the centre of Ypres and directly on the railway line...
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The Belgium Ypres Westhoek Rally (BYWR) founded by Frans Thévelin in 1965 is one of the most famous rallies in the European Rally Championship, the Belgian...
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Battle of the Lys (redirect from Ypres-Lys offensive)
The Battle of the Lys may refer to: Battle of the Lys (1918), part of the German Spring Offensive Battle of the Lys and the Escaut (1918), part of the...
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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...
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the fighting at Ypres, as her son, Prince Maurice of Battenberg, had been killed in action in 1914 during the First Battle of Ypres. The League's President...
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