Battles of Ypres...
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Ypres
The Battle of Ypres actually includes three battles. They were fought in Ypres, Belgium. The town of Ypres was always under attack from the Germans because it was a key point in keeping them from the English Channel.
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The third major war of Ypres is also known as The Battle of Passchendaele or the ‘Battle of Mud’. It was also the battle held after The Vimy Ridge battle.
During the war, rain poured down from the sky very heavily that turned the lowlands into muddy swamps. It was almost impossible to march. The situation got worse because of British army’s heavy bombardments in results of damages of the drainage in that area.
The Germans remained in the concrete bunkers while they killed a large number of Allied troops with weapons like the chlorine or mustard gas and machine guns.
The Canadians eventually took over the village of Passchendaele after a few months of war. That was when Allied stopped the offensive.
Posted by,
Lee Sharon.
3:57 AM
April 22 - May 25, 1915
The second battle in Ypres was held in this time period. In this war, the German army decided to unleash a new and terrible weapon – Chlorine gas, also named as mustard gas. The chlorine gas is a very poisonous gas that it blinds your eyes, causes internal and external bleeding, and suffocates you. Ypres was chosen as the first gas attack in history.
The German army with gas-masks used the poisonous gas against the French and Algerian troops defending the area north of the town. After some time, the British Second army arrived and blocked the German. However, the Allied forces has been disadvantaged by the loss of the high ground north of Ypres.
The war continue and the Allied line held. The German Army was ble to use its new higher positions to bombard the town with heavy artillery.
After five weeks, the German army realized that this war was going nowhere on either side. Therefore, the German ended the war.
Richard Jack’s painting The Second Battle of Ypres
captures what has been referred to as “Canada’s baptism in fire”.
Posted by,
Lee Sharon.
3:43 AM
Thursday, July 29, 2010
July 31 - November 10, 1917
The third major war of Ypres is also known as The Battle of Passchendaele or the ‘Battle of Mud’. It was also the battle held after The Vimy Ridge battle.
During the war, rain poured down from the sky very heavily that turned the lowlands into muddy swamps. It was almost impossible to march. The situation got worse because of British army’s heavy bombardments in results of damages of the drainage in that area.
The Germans remained in the concrete bunkers while they killed a large number of Allied troops with weapons like the chlorine or mustard gas and machine guns.
The Canadians eventually took over the village of Passchendaele after a few months of war. That was when Allied stopped the offensive.
Posted by,
Lee Sharon.
3:57 AM
April 22 - May 25, 1915
The second battle in Ypres was held in this time period. In this war, the German army decided to unleash a new and terrible weapon – Chlorine gas, also named as mustard gas. The chlorine gas is a very poisonous gas that it blinds your eyes, causes internal and external bleeding, and suffocates you. Ypres was chosen as the first gas attack in history.
The German army with gas-masks used the poisonous gas against the French and Algerian troops defending the area north of the town. After some time, the British Second army arrived and blocked the German. However, the Allied forces has been disadvantaged by the loss of the high ground north of Ypres.
The war continue and the Allied line held. The German Army was ble to use its new higher positions to bombard the town with heavy artillery.
After five weeks, the German army realized that this war was going nowhere on either side. Therefore, the German ended the war.
Richard Jack’s painting The Second Battle of Ypres
captures what has been referred to as “Canada’s baptism in fire”.
Posted by,
Lee Sharon.
3:43 AM
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The battle of Passchendaele / Third battle of Ypres
