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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    of Ypres in the Flemish province of West Flanders in Belgium. Hooge and the nearby locations of Bellewaerde and Zillebeke were merged into Ypres in 1976...
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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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    Association at the war memorial at Ypres in Belgium known as the Menin Gate, commemorating the dead at the Battle of Ypres during the First World War. The...
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    of Ypres. Pen and Sword. p. 417. ISBN 9780850525885. David Boyd Haycock (2002). Paul Nash. Harry N. Abrams. p. 30. ISBN 9781854374363. "The Ypres Salient...
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    at Givenchy-en-Gohelle near Arras. As part of Allied operations in the Ypres Salient, British mining against the German-held salient at Wijtschate (Wytchaete...
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