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2. Mai 2024 · Battle of Passchendaele (July 31–November 6, 1917), World War I battle that embodied the senseless slaughter of the Western Front. Passchendaele was the third and longest battle to take place at Ypres, Belgium. The Allied victory was achieved at enormous cost for a piece of ground that would be vacated the next year.
18. Mai 2024 · John French, 1st earl of Ypres (born September 28, 1852, Ripple, Kent, England—died May 22, 1925, Deal, Kent) was a field marshal who commanded the British army on the Western Front between August 1914, when World War I began, and December 17, 1915, when he resigned under pressure and was succeeded by Gen. (afterward Field Marshal ...
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Vor 6 Tagen · Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres, KP, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCMG, PC (28 September 1852 – 22 May 1925), known as Sir John French from 1901 to 1916, and as The Viscount French between 1916 and 1922, was a senior British Army officer.
21. Mai 2024 · The Germans conducted their own Flanders offensive at the Second Battle of Ypres (22 April – 15 May 1915), making the Ypres salient more costly to defend. [7] Sir Douglas Haig succeeded Sir John French as Commander-in-Chief of the BEF on 19 December. [8]
Vor 3 Tagen · The second son Robert succeeded at the Restoration to the titles as the second Earl of Holland and second Baron Kensington, and on the death of his cousin Charles, in 1673, he also succeeded to the titles of the fifth Earl of Warwick and seventh Baron Rich. He showed much activity in the cause of the Restoration.
Vor 2 Tagen · However, this usurpation of the throne sowed the seeds for future conflict. Richard II had named Edmund Mortimer, the 5-year-old Earl of March, as his heir. The Mortimers, who descended from Edward III‘s second surviving son Lionel of Antwerp, thus had a strong claim to the throne, which was taken up by Richard, Duke of York, in ...
Vor 6 Tagen · King Henry II. gave the Earldom to his son John. After this, Henry Fitz-Count, natural son of Reginald above-mentioned, enjoyed it for a few years by sufferance. In 1219, he resigned it into the hands of King Henry III., and in 1224, the King's son Richard, afterwards King of the Romans, was created Earl of Cornwall.
