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YPRES

ēˈprə, Du. Ieper, commune (1991 pop. 35,235), West Flanders prov., SW Belgium, near the French border. It is an agricultural market and an industrial center. Manufactures include textiles, textile-making machinery, and processed food. During the Middle Ages, Ypres was one of the most powerful towns of Flanders, with a flourishing cloth industry that rivaled those of Ghent and Bruges. However, political and social unrest and foreign wars led to the decline of this industry. A center of resistance to Spanish rule, the town was taken (1584) and sacked by Alessandro Farnese. It was held by France from 1678 to 1716 and from 1792 to 1814. In World War I, Ypres was the scene of three great battles. The town was completely destroyed during the war and was later rebuilt. Among the city's restored buildings are the Gothic Cathedral of St. Martin and the magnificent cloth-workers hall (both originally built in the 13th cent.). On the ramparts of the fortifications built (late 17th cent.) by Vauban is a British memorial gate designed by Reginald Blomfield. Outside the town's walls are some 40 military cemeteries.

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The Chronicles of Froissart
Book by John Bourchier, G. C. Macaulay, Jean Froissart; Macmillan, 1899
Subjects:	Europe--History--476-1492, Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453
...first he ordained and said he would go and see them of Ypres, for he hated them greatly, because they opened...through the Franc of Bruges, saying how he would go to Ypres. Tidings came to Ypres that the earl their lord ordained himself to come...

History of the World War - Vol. 2
Book by Frank H. Simons; Doubleday, Page, 1919
Subjects:	World War, 1914-1918
...British Expeditionary Army which fought about Ypres was practically exterminated. The Seventh...664 out of 12,000 rank and file. At Ypres alone the British losses were 40,000...captured, but in the end they still held Ypres and the lines before it. For such an achievement...

The Rise of Cities in North-West Europe
Book by Adriaan Verhulst; Cambridge University Press, 1999
Subjects:	Cities And Towns--Europe, Northern--History--To 1500, Urbanization--Europe, Northern--History--To 1500
...and the recent land reclamation all around Ypres until the twelfth century. Consequently, in a sense Ypres and Lille were complementary from the outset...need for and production of food. However, Ypres very rapid development from a rural manor...

A History of the Great War - Vol. 3
Book by John Buchan; Houghton Mifflin Company, 1922
Subjects:	World War, 1914-1918
...defences. In the half-moon of hills * round Ypres and the ridge of Wytschaete and Messines he had...surprise. In the beginning of June the enemy in the Ypres area lay as follows. North of Ypres he was west of the canal between Steenstraate...

Belgium in War Time: Belgium in War Time
Book by Commandant De Gerlache De Gomery, Bernard Miall; Hodder and Stoughton, 1918
Subjects:	Belgium--History--German Occupation, 1914-1918
...After this first bombardment Ypres was subjected to several others, which...without encountering a living soul:-- Ypres is entitled to rank as the very symbol...had not left one brick upon another in Ypres, the path to Calais would not thereby...

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In Flanders Flooded Fields: Before Ypres There Was Yser
Journal article by Holger H. Herwig; Canadian Journal of History, Vol. 42, 2007
Subjects:	In Flanders Flooded Fields: Before Ypres There Was Yser (Book)
In Flanders Flooded Fields: Before Ypres There Was Yser. by Holger H. Herwig In Flanders Flooded Fields: Before Ypres There Was Yser, by Paul Van Pul. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, Pen and Sword Military, 2006. xxii, 266 pp. 19.99 euro...

Gas, Mud, and Blood at Ypres the Painful Lessons of Chemical Warfare
Journal article by Thomas S. Bundt; Military Review, Vol. 84, 2004
Subjects:	Biological & chemical weapons, Gases, Ieper Belgium, Military history, Poisons, War
Gas, Mud, and Blood at Ypres the Painful Lessons of Chemical Warfare...significant lessons for the future, Ypres reminds us of one of the greatest fears...German Army introduced poison gas at Ypres, France, in an effort to break the...

The Role of Mary Knatchbull in the English Benedictine Foundations of the Seventeenth Century
Journal article by Caroline Bowden; Magistra, Vol. 8, 2002
Subjects:	Charities, Christianity, Clergy, Costs, Debt, Donations, Females, Finance, Gender, History, Literature, Religion, Women
...Boulogne (1653), Dunkirk (1662) and Ypres (1665), all of which were initiated...obtained from the bishops of Ghent and Ypres. In May 1661 Mary Knatchbull wrote to...there were difficulties over recruitment at Ypres and negotiations were held to discuss whether...

"Criers and Shouters". the Discourse on Radical Urban Rebels in Late Medieval Flanders
Journal article by Jan Dumolyn; Journal of Social History, Vol. 42, 2008
Subjects:	Belgian history, Flanders--Political aspects, Medieval history, Metropolitan areas--Political aspects, Rebellion--Analysis
...Dixmude, "the evil persons of Ghent and Ypres," by whom he particularly meant the weavers...ghetrauwe man van eeren") tried to deter the Ypres rebels of 1477 of their wicked plans...obstinez et perseverans"). (96) The Ypres rebels of 1477 became "more persistant...

Guardianship over Women in Medieval Flanders: A Reappraisal
Journal article by Ellen E. Kittell; Journal of Social History, Vol. 31, 1998
Subjects:	Family--Social aspects, Flanders--History, Middle Ages--Social aspects, Women--Social aspects
...Bruges, Douai, Ghent, Lille, and Ypres. The reason for leaving religious women...persons. On 2 July 1306, the aldermen of Ypres, for example, levied the fine of 30 sous...assessment within the parish of St. Martins of Ypres, for example, were women.(64) Alena...

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Landscape and Memory: Brian James Revisits Ypres, Where New Ways of Commemorating the Events of the First World War Are Enthralling Visitors of All Generations
Magazine article by Brian James; History Today, Vol. 56, August 2006
Subjects:	Ieper, Belgium--Description and travel, War--Social aspects, Wars--Social aspects, World War I, 1914-1918--Social aspects
...Landscape and Memory: Brian James Revisits Ypres, Where New Ways of Commemorating the Events...slaughter which made the fluctuating Battle of Ypres a benchmark of the First World War are...itself to help us tell the story--and at Ypres there is a sentence of that story everywhere...

Man, Culture, War: York Membery Visits the in Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres Where a New Exhibition Demonstrates How Many Countries and Cultures Were Bound Up in the First World War
Magazine article by York Membery; History Today, Vol. 58, May 2008
Subjects:	Civilization--Exhibitions, Culture--Exhibitions, Exhibitions, World War II, 1939-1945--Portrayals
...Visits the in Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres Where a New Exhibition Demonstrates How...opening at the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres, Belgium, this month makes clear. In...the exhibition, which is being staged in Ypres famous Cloth Hall where the rest of the...

Guides in the Dead-Hole
Magazine article by E.W. Hornung; New Statesman, Vol. 136, July 16, 2007
Subjects:	Brutality--Personal narratives, Ieper, Belgium
...Things were happening as we motored into Ypres. When were they not? A cannonade of sorts...seventh, or eighth, or ninth Town Major of Ypres this war, and he has outstayed his natural...I walk fast!" says the Town Major of Ypres. For there are parts where it does not...

'A Harmless Young Shepherd in a Soldier's Coat': A Centenary Salute to Edmund Blunden, 1 November 1896-20 January 1974
Magazine article by Anne Powell; Contemporary Review, Vol. 269, November 1996
Subjects:	Blunden, Edmund--Criticism, interpretation, etc., English literature, 1901- (Contemporary period)--Bibliography, Obstacles (Military science)--Bibliography, Undocumented Windows (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., War and literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., World War, 1914-1918--Bibliography
...round Festubert, on the Somme and in the Ypres sector between the spring of 1916 and the...A few days later they arrived in the Ypres Salient. Blunden was sent on a gas course...The battalion was relieved and went to Ypres and occupied various cavities of less or...

Hostile Atmosphere: HAL FOSTER ON PETER SLOTERDIJKJ'S TERROR FROM THE AIR
Magazine article by Hal Foster; Artforum International, Vol. 47, Summer 2009
Subjects:	Books--Book reviews, Terror From The Air (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...against French-Canadian soldiers in the Ypres Salient in Belgium on April 22, 1915...Almost overnight, after the events at Ypres, a kind of military climatology sprang...OMITTED Sloterdijk calls the gas attack at Ypres "a spectacular revelation." However...

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Nostalgia Extra: Arthur Rescued Four Men While under Fire-He Said He Was Just Doing His Duty; HEROIC TALE OF COVENTRY'S ONLY GREAT WAR VICTORIA CROSS WINNER NINETY Years Ago, the British Army Was Locked into One of the Biggest Battles of the First World War - the Third Battle of Ypres, Popularly Known as the Battle of Passchendaele
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), September 8, 2007
Subjects:	Third Battle of Ypres, 1917
...the First World War - the Third Battle of Ypres, Popularly Known as the Battle of Passchendaele...the First World War - the Third Battle of Ypres, popularly known as the Battle of Passchendaele...As with so much of the fighting in the Ypres Salient, the main battle quickly became...

Where the Poppies Blow: In Ypres, Great War Lives On
Newspaper article by Richard Slusser; The Washington Times, November 6, 1999
Where the poppies blow: In Ypres, Great War lives on by Richard Slusser YPRES, Belgium - Poppies still bloom in Flanders Fields...artificial, is the badge of recognition for visitors to Ypres and the Great Wars killing fields, a bulge in the...

Pupils Salute Fallen Hero; Ypres Quest Ends in Mark of Respect for Tees Soldier
Newspaper article; Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), October 31, 2008
Subjects:	Appleton, John--Appreciation, Soldiers
Pupils Salute Fallen Hero; Ypres Quest Ends in Mark of Respect for Tees...McGee found out his son would be visiting Ypres, the scene of First World War battles...Appleton was killed in the second battle of Ypres on April 25, 1915, and was buried there...

Holiday Hotspots: MEMORIES TO KEEP IN YPRES
Newspaper article; The People (London, England), November 9, 2008
Holiday Hotspots: MEMORIES TO KEEP IN YPRES. Byline: By DENNIS EDENSOR IT was 90...Tuesday when the guns fell silent round Ypres at the end of the First World War. Today...you have crossed into Belgium and reached Ypres - Wipers to the troops. The cobbled square...

FOUND: 1914 HERO; British Soldier Discovered at Ypres 92 Years after He Fell
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), April 15, 2006
Subjects:	Soldiers--Appreciation
...1914 HERO; British Soldier Discovered at Ypres 92 Years after He Fell. Byline: By STEPHEN...Ploegsteert Wood - about 13 miles from Ypres in Belgium. It was nicknamed Plug Street...bodies of British soldiers still missing in Ypres. s.white@mirror.co.uk SHRINE...

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Ypres, Battles Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
YPRES, BATTLES OF three major engagements of World War I fought in and around the town of Ypres in SW Belgium. The first battle of Ypres (Oct. Nov., 1914) was the last of the series of engagements...

Ypres
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
YPRES e pr , Du. Ieper, commune (1991 pop...processed food. During the Middle Ages, Ypres was one of the most powerful towns of Flanders...and from 1792 to 1814. In World War I, Ypres was the scene of three great battles (see...

Ypres, John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
YPRES, JOHN DENTON PINKSTONE FRENCH, 1ST EARL OF see French, John Denton Pinkstone, 1st earl of Ypres . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.

French, John Denton Pinkstone, 1st Earl of Ypres
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FRENCH, JOHN DENTON PINKSTONE, 1ST EARL OF YPRES e pr , 1852 1925, British field marshal. After a long career...forces and heavy casualties in the first and second battles of Ypres and the battle of Loos. On his return to England he reorganized...

World War I
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Channel ports but were stopped in the first battle of Ypres (see Ypres, battles of ); grueling trench warfare ensued along...had not been affected in 1915 by the second battle of Ypres, in which the Germans used poison gas for the first...

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