Similar words: cypress, cypress tree, birthday present, present progressive, compressive stress, press, preset, presto. Meaning: n. 1. battle in World War I (1917); an Allied offensive which eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of Flanders; Germans introduced mustard gas which interfered with the Allied artillery 2. battle in World War I (1915); Germans wanted to try chlorine (a toxic yellow gas) as a weapon and succeeded in taking considerable territory from the Allied salient 3. battle in World War I (1914); heavy but indecisive fighting as the Allies and the Germans both tried to break through the lines of the others.
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1. Did it remind you of Ypres?
2. And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.
3. Following First Ypres Allenby was promoted to commander of the Third Army.
4. It was called mustard gas and was used at Ypres in 1917(sentencedict.com), when it caused many thousands of casualties.
5. Tragically one night in September 1917 when in the morass in the Ypres Salient a German shrapnel shell burst overhead badly wounding Harry and killing three of his closest friends.
6. Poison gas has been around since the Second Battle of Ypres.
7. One of several displayed at the "In Flanders Fields" museum in Ypres bears a lovingly carved poem. It is about homesickness.
8. He joined the Royal Naval Air Service in 1915 and was posted two years later to service and rescue aircraft that crashed behind the trenches at Ypres and the Somme.
9. Ninety-three years ago, during World War I, wounded Canadian soldiers head to an aid-post during the second Battle of Passchendaele, in Flanders, near the town of Ypres, Belgium in 1917.
10. One of several displayed at the "In Flanders Fields" museum in Ypres bears a lovingly carved poem.
11. Since the old trenches had been dug several feet deep, modelled on the original trenches of the old countemptibles around Ypres.
12. A first big exhibition will open on April 24th in Ypres, a Belgian town, and site of one of the war's bloodiest battles.
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