Second Battle of Ypres (April 22–May 25, 1915), second of three costly battles in World War I at Ypres (now Ieper), in western Flanders. The battle marked the Germans’ first use of poison gas as a weapon. Although the gas attack opened a wide hole in t
To seal the breach, the 1st Canadian Division of General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien's Second British Army was shifted to the area after dark. Forming up, elements of the division, led by the 10th Battalion, 2nd Canadian Brigade, counterattacked at Kitcheners' Wood around 11:00 PM. In a br...
First Battle of Ypres, (October 19–November 22, 1914), first of three costly battles of World War I in western Flanders. The Allies and the Germans failed to outflank each other, and both sides settled into the trench warfare that would characterize the
Noun1.third battle of Ypres- 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 ...