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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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A History of the Great War - Vol. 3
Book by John Buchan; Houghton Mifflin Company, 1922
Subjects:	World War, 1914-1918
...1 Fighting around the Ypres Salient--The Canadians at tacked--The...LXXXII. THE THIRD BATTLE OF YPRES June 1-November 10, 1917 570...Messines--The Preliminaries of Third Ypres--The "Pill boxes"--The Attack of 31st...

A History of the Great War - Vol. 2
Book by John Buchan; Houghton and Mifflin Company, 1922
Subjects:	World War, 1914-1918
...XXVII. THE SECOND BATTLE OF YPRES* April 17-May 24, 1915 42...60 The Gas Attack The Second Battle of Ypres Its Results The Ruined City The Political...2. THE SECOND BATTLE OF YPRES 56...*

The Low Countries and the Hundred Years' War: 1326-1347
Book by Henry Stephen Lucas; University of Michigan, 1929
Subjects:	Europe--Politics And Government--476-1492, Flanders--History, Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453, Netherlands--History--To 1384
...the extraordinarily rich collections in Ypres and Arras during the late war has been...Guelders, Hainault, Brussels, Antwerp, Ypres, Bruges, Ghent, and Flushing. In nearly...settled in such towns as Bruges, Ghent, Ypres, and Arras and began to share with the...

Friends of France: The Field Service of the American Ambulance Described by Its Members
Book by Abram C. Piatt; Houghton Mifflin, 1916
Subjects:	American Field Service, World War, 1914-1918--Personal Narratives, American
...AT THE BACK OF THE FRONT: DUNKIRK AND YPRES Henry Sydnor Harrison 6...An American Ambulance in Ypres 12...AT THE BACK OF THE FRONT: DUNKIRK AND YPRES IN June, 1915, it was the pride of...

The Memoirs of Marshal Foch
Book by T. Bentley Mott, Marshal Ferdinand Foch; Doubleday, Doran and company, Incorporated, 1931
Subjects:	World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Western Front
...III The Battle of Ypres 147 Headquarters...appearance; genesis of the Battle of Ypres -- The Adversaries and the Terrain...conference -- Final German efforts against Ypres -- The enemy settles down in his posi...

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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 (cloth...

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
...towns: 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, wife...

Landscape as Palimpsest: Wordsworthian Topography in the War Writings of Blunden and Sassoon
Journal article by Robert Hemmings; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 43, 2007
Subjects:	Blunden, Edmund--Criticism and interpretation, Blunden, Edmund--Influence, Blunden, Edmund--Works, Sassoon, Siegfried--Criticism and interpretation, Sassoon, Siegfried--Influence, Sassoon, Siegfried--Works, War poetry--Criticism and interpretation, War poetry--Influence, War poetry--Works, Wordsworth, William--Criticism and interpretation, Wordsworth, William--Influence
...the devastated terrain of Flanders near Ypres, Siegfried Sassoon was recovering from...we looked over the befouled fragments of Ypres, the solitary sheet of water, Zillebeke...receives in the denuded hillside above Ypres: "natures health and human worthiness...

Women, Audience, and Public Acts in Medieval Flanders
Journal article by Ellen E. Kittell; Journal of Women's History, Vol. 10, 1998
Subjects:	Women--History
...medieval Flemish cities such as Ghent, Ypres, and Douai meant engaging in countless...November 1272, Crestine Coigne, a widow from Ypres, and Jakemon Morin, her male advocate...the public oath. The scanty records of Ypres for the years between 1266 and 1289, for...

Nobles, Patricians and Officers: The Making of a Regional Political Elite in Late Medieval Flanders
Journal article by Jan Dumolyn; Journal of Social History, Vol. 40, 2006
Subjects:	Flanders--History, Patricians (Rome)--Social aspects, Social mobility--Research
...three leading cities Ghent, Bruges and Ypres, and the rural district surrounding Bruges...family of officers. They originated from Ypres patricians of the thirteenth century, but...61) A Nicolas Mont had been alderman of Ypres in 1245, and a Jehan Mont had been a draper...

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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 fact...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...train. 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...

Lest We Forget
Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 48, July 1998
Subjects:	Interactive media--Exhibitions, World War, 1914-1918--Exhibitions
...mere history. For the people of leper (as the Belgians prefer Ypres to be known), the tragedy and repercussions of the Great War...visitors a year - over a third more than the `Remembrance Museum Ypres Salient 1914-18 that it replaces. Some flavour of the new...

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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...

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...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...

Honoured 90 Years on, the Lost Hero of Ypres; the Horror of War: Troops in the Mud at Ypres Killed in Action: Robert Kilgour
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 1, 2008
Subjects:	Soldiers--Casualties
Honoured 90 Years on, the Lost Hero of Ypres; the Horror of War: Troops in the Mud at Ypres Killed in Action: Robert Kilgour. Byline...isburied in the Artillery Wood Cemetery, north of Ypres. His older brother John was also killed on active...

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...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: Menin Gate...

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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 referred to as "the race for the sea." The...

Ypres
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
YPRES e pr , Du. Ieper, commune (1991 pop. 35,235), West Flanders...textile-making machinery, and processed food. During the Middle Ages, Ypres was one of the most powerful towns of Flanders, with a flourishing...from 1678 to 1716 and from 1792 to 1814. In World War I, Ypres was the scene of three great battles (see Ypres, battles...

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...

Currie, Sir Arthur William
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...World War I. He made a distinguished record for himself in World War I as a brigade and division commander, particularly at Ypres (1915) and Vimy Ridge (1917), where he was knighted on the battlefield. Promoted to lieutenant general, he commanded the Canadian...

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