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First Battle of Ypres (1914)
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19 Oct-22 Nov 1914 — The last open-field battle in the west: the BEF’s pre-war regulars stop the final German drive for the Channel ports, and are nearly annihilated doing it. The line from the sea to Switzerland is now continuous.
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- Battle site
- Chapter
- Trench warfare on the Western Front (chapter 5 of WWI)
- Atlas
- The Great War, 1871–1923
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