Ypres English

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What does Ypres mean?

Ypres

— 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

— noun 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

— noun 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

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What other words have the same or similar meaning as Ypres?

Ypres English » English

battle of Ypres

third battle of Ypres

second battle of Ypres

first battle of Ypres

Walloon Brabant

Namur

Mons

Mechelen

Liège

Kingdom of Belgium

Hainaut

Ghent

Flemish Brabant

Charleroi

Campine

Arlon

Antwerpian