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	First World War.com - Battles - The First Battle of Ypres, 1914
		With the German failure at the Battle of the Marne in September 1914 and the subsequent Allied counter attacks, the "Race to the Sea" began.
		The Allied position around Ypres took the shape of a small salient in the trench lines because it could best be defended from the low ridge of higher ground to the east, but it was vulnerable to superior German artillery.
		There were eventually three major battles at Ypres (click here to read a summary of the second; click here for the third, also known simply as Passchendaele), but the First Battle of Ypres was one of the most significant.
	www.firstworldwar.com /battles/ypres1.htm (996 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Ypres
		Ypres is an ancient town, and is known to have been raided by the Romans in the first century BC During the Middle Ages, Ypres was a prosperous city with a population of 40,000,
		Ypres was further fortified in 17th and 18th centuries while under the occupation of the Hapsburgs and the French.
		Of the battles, the largest, best-known, and most costly in human suffering was the Third Battle of Ypres (July 21 to November 6, 1917, also known as the Battle of Passchendaele) in which the British, Canadians and ANZAC forces recaptured the Passchendaele ridge east of the city at a terrible cost of lives.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Ypres (1440 words)

	Ypres, Battle of - MSN Encarta
		Ypres, Battle of, three major engagements of World War I fought around the town of Ypres (Ieper in Flemish) in western Belgium.
		After the allied victory at the Battle of the Marne, fighting conditions and tactics were dominated by the trench warfare that began to develop on the Western Front.
		During the German offensives in the spring of 1918, the positions captured during the Third Battle of Ypres were found to be a liability, and the British withdrew once more in the direction of the town.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761552881/Ypres_Battle_of.html (867 words)

	Ypres, battles of - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		YPRES, BATTLES OF [Ypres, battles of] three major engagements of World War I fought in and around the town of Ypres in SW Belgium.
		The attack was unsuccessful and was broken off in May. The third battle of Ypres, popularly known as Passchendaele, began on July 31, 1917, and continued until November.
		Landscape and memory: Brian James revisits Ypres, where new ways of commemorating the events of the First World War are enthralling visitors of all generations.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-ypres-ba.html (342 words)

	Battle of Ypres - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Throughout the war Ypres was under constant attack as the key point of an Allied salient (outwardly projecting battle line) that blocked a German approach to the English Channel.
		The first battle at Ypres took place when outnumbered British, French, and Belgian troops resisted a German offensive aimed at the French ports of Calais and Dunkerque on the English Channel.
		Known also as the Passendale campaign, the third battle of Ypres was precipitated by a massive British offensive directed against enemy installations.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761552881__1/Battle_of_Ypres.html (409 words)

	First World War, 1914-1918
		By the time the battle ended, the French had regained almost all of the ground lost in the initial German attacks, while Falkenhayn had been replaced by the team of Hindenburg and Ludendorff, famous after victories in the east, who decided to go on to the defensive in the west.
		The battle was a disaster for Italy, but the new line soon stabilised, and in 1918 the Germans pulled their troops out of the front, expecting the Austrians to be able to deal with Italy on their own now that the Russian front was won.
		First was the battle of Heligoland Bight (28 August 1914), which began as an British attempt to stop German patrols, and escalated when the Admiralty sent in Cruisers from the Grand Fleet, and the Germans sent out some of their own Cruisers.
	www.rickard.karoo.net /articles/wars_wwI.html (5557 words)

	Ypres/Ieper: historical background
		Since the first century B.C., when the Belgae people were conquered by the Romans, the Flanders region has been invaded by successive armies and has suffered from the ravages of war.
		In spite of this, Ypres managed to establish itself as a financially and culturally rich city in the 12th century.
		It was the beginning of the Second Battle of Ypres and the beginning of the total destruction of a beautiful Flemish city.
	www.greatwar.co.uk /westfront/ypsalient/ypres.htm (1222 words)

	The Battles of Ypres, 1914 ("First Ypres")
		The Battles of Ypres 1914 ('First Ypres') was considered by the 1921 Battles Nomenclature Committee to comprise of three phases: Langemarck, Gheluvelt and Nonne Bosschen.
		To the South-West of Ypres and west of Messines are the Flemish Hills.
		The Ypres countryside was dotted with many thick woods, with villages and hamlets spread along the roads that fan out of the town to the east and isolated houses scattered widely.
	www.1914-1918.net /bat7.htm (1849 words)

	Ypres
		During the First Battle of Ypres (October to November 1914), German forces attempted to outflank the British Expeditionary Force but were thwarted, at great cost, in their "race to the sea".
		The Second Battle of Ypres (April 1915), is notable for the German's use of poisonous gas to support the attempted breakthrough by the German Fourth Army.
		The Third Battle of Ypres (31 July to 10 November 1917) was the major British offensive in Flanders in 1917.
	www.awm.gov.au /units/place_803.asp (121 words)

	First World War.com - Battles - The Third Battle of Ypres, 1917
		Whereas the first and second battles of Ypres were launched by the Germans in 1914 and 1915 respectively, Third Ypres was intended as Sir Douglas Haig’s Allied forces breakthrough in Flanders in 1917.
		The Third Battle of Ypres was opened by Sir Hubert Gough’s Fifth Army, with 1 Corps of Sir Herbert Plumer’s Second Army joining on its right and a corps of the French First Amy led by Anthoine to its left: a total of twelve divisions.
		This was followed by the Battle of Polygon Wood on 26 September and the Battle of Broodseinde on 4 October.
	www.firstworldwar.com /battles/ypres3.htm (1470 words)

	Battle of Ypres
		The most notorious of the battles fought near the small Belgian town of Ypres was that of Passchendaele in 1917 which for many came to epitomize the horror and futility of the Great War.
		In that time Ypres was to witness the first use of gas in warfare at the beginning of the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915 and the first use of flame-throwers at Hooge.
		Pilckem was the scene of the first German Gas Attack in April 1915 during the opening phase of the Second Battle of Ypres.
	www.wartours.com /ysalient.html (1491 words)

	::Ypres::
		The Battle of Ypres (and the numerous battles that surrounded this Flanders town) has become linked forever with World War One.
		The land surrounding Ypres to the north is flat and canals and rivers link it to the coast.
		The first battle at Ypres limped to a halt.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /ypres.htm (788 words)

	War Artists from the First World War: The Battlegrounds
		The battle was notable for the first use of chemical weapons (chlorine gas) by the Germans, and the steadfastness of the Canadians in sealing a significant breach in the lines.
		Richard Jack, the first artist to be commissioned by Beaverbrook, undertook the commission sometime after the battle to produce a painting that captured this magnificent action.
		The Battle of Ypres did much to establish the reputation of the Canadians as a fighting force and directly gave weight to the national policy of keeping Canadian troops together rather than dispersing them under British command.
	www.archives.gov.on.ca /english/exhibits/war_artists/ypres.htm (1056 words)

	Amazon.ca: Ypres: The First Battle, 1914: Books: Ian F W Beckett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		First Ypres in 1914 was a devastating battle for the British and a turning point for all four of the major armies involved.
		Ypres: The First Battle draws on a wide range of British, French, German and Belgian sources in order to reconstruct the battle from all sides.
		Through a shrewd analysis of the most recent secondary works as well as archival materials, Ian F. Beckett appraises the significance of First Ypres as a key moment in the Great War marking the transition from war as it had been to war as it would become.
	www.amazon.ca /Ypres-First-Battle-Ian-Beckett/dp/0582506123 (351 words)

	The First Battle of Ypres
		Allenby's cavalry were fighting an apparently hopeless battle on a long line, and it seemed as if the slightest forward pressure would crumble the Ypres defense.
		The first was beaten back with the assistance of Byng's cavalry, who continued for the next few days to act as a general reserve and support to the Gheluvelt salient.
		At first they used their parade march, and our men, rubbing their eyes in the darkness of the small hours, could scarcely credit the portent.
	net.lib.byu.edu /~rdh7/wwi/1914/ypres1.html (1790 words)

	Ypres / Ieper, Belgium
		Ypres (Flemish Ieper) is situated in the plain of West Flanders on the River Ieper (Ieperlee), a tributary of the Iser.
		The name Ypres is closely associated with some of the most bitter battles of the First World War, at the end of which the town had been almost completely destroyed.
		Founded in the 10th C., in the Middle Ages Ypres, together with Ghent and Bruges, was one of the three most important towns in Belgium because of its prosperous cloth making, reaching the peak of its heyday in the 13th and 14th C. with a population of 40,000.
	www.planetware.com /belgium/ypres-ieper-b-wv-yp.htm (486 words)

	Amazon.com: Ypres: The First Battle, 1914: Books: Ian F W Beckett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Ypres: The First Battle, 1914 by Ian F W Beckett (Longman) First Ypres in 1914 was a devastating battle for the British and a turning point for all four of the major armies involved.
		The first battle to associate the British army with the `immortal salient, and indeed regarded as the end of the old army, the mythologising of the British struggle has obscured the major role of the French and Belgians in defending Flanders.
		In the first study of First Ypres for almost 40 years, Ian F. Beckett draws on a wide range of previously neglected sources to reappraise the conduct of the battle, its significance and its legacy.
	www.amazon.com /Ypres-First-Battle-Ian-Beckett/dp/0582506123 (1122 words)

	World History 1914 -1915
		The Russians were victorious at the Battle of Lemberg and the Austro- Hungarians were forced to withdraw.
		Battles raged across Poland both in the north, around Warsaw, and in the south, around Cracow.
		The Third Battle of Artois was the final part of an ambitious Allied plan to force the Germans out of Northern France.
	www.multied.com /dates/1914.html (1023 words)

	Ypres Salient - Holts School History and Battlefield Tours
		Following the First Battle of Ypres in the late autumn of 1914, Ypres became the centre of a bitter struggle.
		When visiting Ypres it is hard to appreciate the devastation of the area at that time however the period photographs shown in many of the museums help to bring the text to life.
		Some of the soldiers buried here were student soldiers killed in the First Battle of Ypres in October and November 1914.
	www.holts.co.uk /schools/ypressalient.html (849 words)

	First Battle of Ypres - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This battle and the Battle of the Yser marked the end of the so-called Race to the Sea.
		The town of Ypres was rapidly demolished by artillery and air attack.
		The BEF was severely weakened at First Ypres, but the battle allowed the Allies time to strengthen their lines.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/First_Battle_of_Ypres (582 words)

	The First Battle of Ypres
		To set the scene for some of the events that happened in this area it is important to understand that following the 1st Battle of the Marne in September 1914 (The famous one where the taxis from Paris ferried French troops to the front) there was a race to the sea.
		The key to the area was the town of Ypres in the west of Belgium and just north of the Franco-Belgian border.
		For all that the Germans outnumbered the British three to one at Ypres their progress was slow going and their casualties enormous, but so were those of the British and they could ill afford them.
	www.webmatters.net /belgium/ww1_ieper_2.htm (801 words)

	Western Front Association Contributed Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		By the time the Battle of Ypres began a few days later the formation of a line running from Switzerland to the Channel had been completed.
		The first phase of the fighting began on 20 October with an attack by the German Sixth Army (Crown Prince Rupprecht) and the Fourth Army along the whole front.
		The centre of the attack was astride the Menin Road, with Ypres itself being the principle objective.
	www.westernfront.co.uk /thegreatwar/articles/timeline/ypres1.htm (574 words)

	First Battle of Ypres
		The Ypres salient at its northern re-entrant was held by part of Dubois' 9th French Corps, the tale of whose casualties in the combat for Bixschoote ran high.
		The Menin road and Gheluvelt, on the 29th, was the scene of an all-day battle, to be renewed at daybreak on the 30th.
		With the first streaks of dull light began a fight on three sides of a square that was to cost the Germans dear.
	www.greatwardifferent.com /Great_War/First_Ypres/First_Ypres_01.htm (10911 words)

	THIRD YPRES
		This first German attack on the town is appropriately called The First Battle of Ypres.
		The Third Battle of Ypres was part of this plan, as was the Battle of Messines, which in June 1917, made significant Allied gains to the south of Ypres.
		The appalling conditions that they encountered were something which most of them found difficult to cope with at first, but they found an inner strength to deal with the suffering of men whose limbs had been blown off, the screams of the wounded and the pain of those close to death.
	www.spoulton.fsnet.co.uk /Book/Ypres.htm (4877 words)

	Ypres- WordWeb dictionary definition
		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
		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
	www.wordwebonline.com /en/YPRES (127 words)

	First World War.com - Memoirs & Diaries - The First Battle of Ypres
		In the First Battle of Ypres the British were out-numbered by seven to one.
		I thought of a great-grandfather of mine who fought in the Peninsular War, and was badly wounded at the Battle of Waterloo.
		First published in Everyman at War (1930), edited by C. Purdom.
	www.firstworldwar.com /diaries/firstbattleofypres.htm (1623 words)

	Second Battle of Ypres
		There were actually 3 battles of Ypres, The first battle took place in 1914, the second in 1915 and the third was in 1917.
		The 2nd Battle of Ypres was a part of the first world war...
		This was only one of many battles in the first world war so there were other countries that did participate.
	www.freewebs.com /2ndbattleofypres/faq.htm (388 words)

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