The bloody Battle of Ypres was a series of engagements that took place on April 22 to May 25, 1915, as the Germans tried top breach Allied trench lines near the town of Ypres in northern Belgium. The ...
In October and November 1914, exactly 100 years ago, the British Expeditionary Force and the German Army fought the First Battle of Ypres in northern Belgium. Before World War I was over, Ypres was ...
The Second Battle of Ypres was fought 100 years ago, April 22-25, 1915. It was the Canadian Army’s first battle in The Great War and, arguably, its greatest.
BERLIN -- The Germans are continuing to advance in the region to the north. Northeast of Ypres they have stormed and taken the canal town of Lizerne, on the west bank of the Yser. Additional prisoners ...
Until mid-December 1914, von Falkenhayn considered poison gas, already outlawed under The Hague Convention, “unchivalrous”. But with the military stalemate of trench warfare delaying German ambitions ...
Prof. Cassar (Eastern Michigan) gives us a rather analytical, well written, detailed account of British and Canadian troops during Second Ypres (Apr. 21-May 25, 1915), which saw the first use of ...