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third battle of ypres

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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

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Ypres battle of Ypres third battle of Ypres

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