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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 (/ ˈ p æ ʃ ən d eɪ l /), was a campaign of the First World War, fought by the Allies against the German Empire.
- First Battle of Passchendaele
The First Battle of Passchendaele took place on 12 October...
- Second Battle of Passchendaele
The Second Battle of Passchendaele was the culminating...
- First Battle of Passchendaele
Die Dritte Flandernschlacht war der Versuch der Alliierten an der Westfront, einen Durchbruch im Raum Ypern zu erzielen, weshalb sie auch als Dritte Ypernschlacht bezeichnet wurde. Sie begann am 31. Juli 1917 und endete am 6. November 1917 mit der Eroberung des Ortes Passendale. Das Ziel der Alliierten war es, in Belgien ...
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.
The men whose ghosts surround you now died fighting for this ground, battling up towards the village of Passchendaele which gives the battle its nickname. More properly known as the Third Battle of Ypres, it is a byword for the futility and horror of war. The famous historian A.J.P. Taylor described it as 'the blindest struggle of a blind war ...
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.
