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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 (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 (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
Source: WordNetFamous battles in France include Battle of Verdun (spanning 10 months from 21 February to 18 December 1916), Battle of the Somme (1 July to 18 November 1916), and five separate conflicts called the Battle of Ypres (from 1914 to 1918). Source: Internet
Beginning on 31 July and continuing to 10 November the struggle around Ypres was renewed with the Battle of Passchendaele (technically the Third Battle of Ypres, of which Passchendaele was the final phase). Source: Internet
The Third Battle of Ypres pinned the German army to Flanders and caused unsustainable casualties.sfn At a conference on 13 October, a scheme of the Third Army for an attack in mid-November was discussed. Source: Internet