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battle to take place at the belgian city of ypres , passchendaele was ostensibly an allied victory, but it was achieved at enormous cost for a piece of ground that would be vacated the following year. ypres, belgium, on september , , british troops passed through the devastated town of ypres, west flanders
french armies were temporarily unwilling or unable to fight, the commander of the british armies in europe, gen. douglas haig , decided that britain must begin a new offensive of its own. haig wanted to attack german forces in the ypres salient , a long-held bulge in the allied front lines in the flanders...
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