THIRD BATTLE OF YPRES

• (noun) 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

  synonyms : battle of ypres , ypres

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