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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ralph Ipres (redirect from Ralph de Ypres)
Ralph Ipres (c. 1336 – 1397), of Quernmore, Lancsahire, was an English politician. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Lancashire in...
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Ypres Reservoir Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) burial ground for the dead of the First World War located in the Ypres Salient...
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former cathedral in the Belgian city of Ypres. It was a cathedral and the seat of the former diocese of Ypres from 1561 to 1801, and is still commonly...
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