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May 2, 2024 · Battle of Passchendaele, (July 31–November 6, 1917), World War I battle that served as a vivid symbol of the mud, madness, and senseless slaughter of the Western Front. The third and longest battle to take place at the Belgian city of Ypres , Passchendaele was ostensibly an Allied victory, but it was achieved at enormous cost for a piece of ...
The Third Battle of Ypres (German: Dritte Flandernschlacht; French: Troisième Bataille des Flandres; Dutch: Derde Slag om Ieper ), also known as the Battle of Passchendaele ( / ˈpæʃəndeɪl / ), was a campaign of the First World War, fought by the Allies against the German Empire. [a] The battle took place on the Western Front, from July to ...
- 31 July – 10 November 1917, (3 months, 1 week and 3 days)
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May 22, 2017 · Mon May 22 2017 - 15:35. By the summer of the third year of the Great War, human despair had emerged as a common enemy. The Third Battle of Ypres, now more widely referred to simply as ...
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Aug 1, 2007 · When considering the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917, what immediately springs to mind is a desolate, shattered landscape of mud. So when looking through the photographs of this battle here on the blog, and in the exhibition, it may be puzzling that some depict this morass with men and horses up to their waists in mud, yet many others show a rather dry and dusty landscape.
Jul 31, 2011 · Officially known as the Third Battle of Ypres, Passchendaele became infamous not only for the scale of casualties, but also for the mud. Ypres was the principal town within a salient (or bulge) in ...
Nov 10, 2017 · Today, the appalling casualties, the mud and the overall futility of the offensive have made Passchendaele an emblem of the mind-boggling waste of the First World War. Here are some facts about this tragic battle and the men who fought and died in it. The Allies detonated 19 underground mines, like this one, at Messines in June of 1917.
Battle of Passchendaele. On 31 July 1917, the British and French launched a massive offensive in the area around Ypres in the Belgian province of Flanders. The Third Battle of Ypres, known in later years as Passchendaele, was not as bloody as the Somme the year before, but would achieve its own notoriety. 15 min read.
