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.
- synonyms: Ypres, third battle of Ypres
- 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)
- synonyms: Ypres, second battle of Ypres
- 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.
- synonyms: Ypres, first battle of Ypres
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