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ಅರ್ಥ : 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.
ಸಮಾನಾರ್ಥಕ : battle of ypres, third battle of ypres
ಅರ್ಥ : 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.
ಸಮಾನಾರ್ಥಕ : battle of ypres, second battle of ypres
ಅರ್ಥ : 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.
ಸಮಾನಾರ್ಥಕ : battle of ypres, first battle of ypres
