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Definition of First battle of Ypres
1. Noun. Battle in World War I (1914); heavy but indecisive fighting as the Allies and the Germans both tried to break through the lines of the others.
Generic synonyms: Pitched Battle
Group relationships: First World War, Great War, War To End War, World War 1, World War I
Geographical relationships: Belgique, Belgium, Kingdom Of Belgium
Lexicographical Neighbors of First Battle Of Ypres
Literary usage of First battle of Ypres
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the World War by Frank Herbert Simonds (1919)
"... war seems to me to be at the Dunajec and not at the close of the First Battle
of Ypres. In the volume describing the first phase, therefore, ..."
2. 1914 by John Denton Pinkstone French (1919)
"CHAPTER XV A REVIEW OF THE ALLIED PLANS IN THE WEST AT THE CLOSE OF THE FIRST
BATTLE OF YPRES AT this time all our ideas in regard to the framing of plans ..."
3. A Treasury of War Poetry: British and American Poems of the World War, 1914-1919 by George Herbert Clarke (1919)
"1 In the first Battle of Ypres, which was fought in October-November, 1914, a
thin line of British, supported on each wing by small bodies of French, ..."
4. Poems of the Great War by John William Cunliffe (1916)
"In the first Battle of Ypres, which was fought in October-November, 1914, a thin
line of British, supported on each wing by small bodies of French, ..."
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