Sky1 年
Ukraine war: Visions of First World War in the struggle for Bakhmut frontline
The First Battle of Ypres - one of five - the previous October and November claimed more than 250,000 lives. Now similar scenes are playing out around a small Ukrainian city. History has a way of ...
BBC4 年
Battle of Passchendaele: 31 July - 6 November 1917
Ypres was the principal town within a salient (or bulge) in the British lines and the site of two previous battles: First Ypres (October-November 1914) and Second Ypres (April-May 1915).
BBC7 年
Passchendaele 100: Ypres lights up to remember a dark past
William and Kate remember WW1 battle 'I was named after a World ... he says, having first visited Ypres with his father Tom, who served at Passchendaele in the Welsh Regiment's Machine Gun Corps.
BBC14 年
Daily Mirror Headlines: The Battle of Ypres, Published 24 April 1915
The Daily Mirror reports the Germans' use of 'asphyxiating gas' in the trenches around Ypres, details some of ... sight of a portion of the Fleet. The first sight which greets our eyes are the ...
来自MSN1 个月
The Battle of Passchendaele (1917)
The Battle of Passchendaele, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres was one of the largest battles of the first world war. #SimpleHistory #WW1 Hochul deploys hundreds of National Guard members to ...
BBC1 个月
Ypres cathedral stained glass fragment
British casualties at the battles of Ypres were 420,000. The city was razed to the ground and a person on a horse could see across the whole city. The original cathedral was begun in 1221 and was ...