Battle of Passchendaele - Wikipedia
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 / PASH-ən-dayl), was a campaign of the First World War, fought by the Allies against the German Empire.
Battle of Passchendaele | Facts, Maps, Summary, & Casualties
2024年11月29日 · 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.
Third Battle of Ypres - The Battle Of Passchendaele - Imperial …
The Third Battle of Ypres - also known as Passchendaele - has shaped perceptions of the First World War on the Western Front. Fought between July and November 1917, both sides suffered heavy casualties and endured appalling conditions.
Third Battle of Ypres 31 July to 10 November 1917 - Anzac Portal
In the countryside near the Belgian town of Ypres, Australians fought in one of the most costly and horrific campaigns of World War I. Many of them died or were wounded in the epic struggle.
Third Battle of Ypres begins in Flanders | July 31, 1917 - HISTORY
2009年11月5日 · On July 31, 1917, the Allies launch a renewed assault on German lines in the Flanders region of Belgium, in the much-contested region near Ypres, during World War I. The attack begins more...
Battle of Ypres - Wikipedia
The Battle of Ypres was a series of engagements during the First World War, near the Belgian city of Ypres, between the German and the Allied armies (Belgian, French, and British colonial forces). During the five engagements, casualties may have surpassed one million.
Battle of Passchendaele: 31 July - 6 November 1917 - BBC
2011年7月31日 · 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)...
The Battles of Ypres, 1917 (Third Ypres) - The Long, Long Trail
The British finally got what they had wanted since 1914: the opportunity to attack at Ypres and breakout of the confines of the salient of trenches around it. Often known as the Third Battle of Ypres or Passchendaele, the offensive began with encouraging gains but terrible summer weather soon bogged it down.By August the offensive was clearly ...
Battle of Passchendaele (Third Ypres) | Australian War Memorial
Attacking from Ypres in Belgium, he planned to drive the Germans from the surrounding dominant ridges and even hoped to reach the Belgian coast. Following on the success at Messines in June, he unleashed his great attack on 31 July 1917.
Canada and the Battle of Passchendaele
2006年5月31日 · The Battle of Passchendaele, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres, was fought during the First World War from 31 July to 10 November 1917. The battle took place on the Ypres salient on the Western Front, in Belgium, where German and Allied armies had been deadlocked for three years.
Passchendaele, 1917 | Military History Matters
2017年6月26日 · This was the starting point for the five-month fight in 1917, the Third Battle of Ypres, that culminated in the assault on Passchendaele. It was planned in two phases; first, the taking of the Messines Ridge and, second, a swift break-out over the Passchendaele Ridge having secured the Gheluvelt Ridge which linked them.
First World War.com - Battles - The Third Battle of Ypres, 1917
Battles - The Third Battle of Ypres, 1917. Whereas the first and second battles of Ypres were launched by the Germans in 1914 and 1915 respectively, Third Ypres was intended as Sir Douglas Haig's Allied forces breakthrough in Flanders in 1917.
The Battle of Passchendaele - World War I - ThoughtCo
2019年3月18日 · Learn about the Battle of Passchendaele, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres, which was waged from July to November 1917 during World War I.
Third Battle of Ypres in World War I - HISTORY CRUNCH
2021年3月27日 · The Third Battle of Ypres was fought between the Allied Powers and Germany from July 31st to November 10th in 1917. As stated above, the battle took place close to the Belgian city of Ypres and was a major battle on the Western Front.
WW1: The Third Battle of Ypres - WAR HISTORY ONLINE
2018年4月29日 · Fought during the First World War, the Third Battle of Ypres was the leading British offensive of 1917. Taking place at the much fought over Ypres Salient, it saw the Allies make small but significant advances. The Third Battle of Ypres began at 0350 on July 31, 1917.
The Battles of Third Ypres - Campaign Overview
The Third Battle of Ypres was the major British offensive on the Western Front in 1917, intended by its principal architect, Field Marshal Douglas Haig, to defeat the German Army in Belgium.
In the Third Battle of Ypres, increasingly advanced British combined arms tactics were pitted against sophisticated German defences based on concrete pillboxes and specialist counterattack formations.
Third Battle of Ypres - Australian War Memorial
The Third Battle of Ypres was the major British offensive in Flanders in 1917. It was planned to break through the strongly fortified and in-depth German defences enclosing the Ypres salient, a protruding bulge in the British front line, with the intention of sweeping through to the German submarine bases on the Belgian coast.
Battle of Passchendaele - National Army Museum
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 …
Third Battle of Ypres, 31 July- 6 November 1917 - HistoryOfWar.org
The Third Battle of Ypres, 31 July- 6 November 1917, was one of the more pointless and badly handled battles of the First World War, and is famous for the Passchendaele Mud