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Mar 7, 2024 · July 31, 1917 - November 6, 1917. Location: Belgium. Flanders. Ypres. Participants: Australia. British Empire. Canada. France.
The battle took place on the Western Front, from July to November 1917, for control of the ridges south and east of the Belgian city of Ypres in West Flanders, as part of a strategy decided by the Allies at conferences in November 1916 and May 1917.
- 31 July – 10 November 1917, (3 months, 1 week and 3 days)
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It took place between 1 July and 18 November 1916 on both sides of the upper reaches of the river Somme in France. The battle was intended to hasten a victory for the Allies. More than three million men fought in the battle, of whom more than one million were either wounded or killed, making it one of the deadliest battles in all of human history.