Battles

When the battles started

in October 1914, the allies were
out numbered by the German
army 2:1. Even with this un fair
odds against the allies, they
came through with there great
military tactics. The Germans
called the first battle Battle of
Ypres, the massacre of
innocents. This was because
Germany sent out so many
young volunteers to the battle
and they had no chance against
the Allies strong army. At the
end the Allies held off the
German Army from capturing
Ypres. With the end of all the
battles in the first battle of
 Warfare
The first battle of Ypres mainly consisted trench warfare. “Trench
warfare is a form of warfare where both combatants have fortified
positions and fighting lines are static.”
The Ypres “Salient”
“The British defense was reduced almost to breaking Point… This tiny
force managed to hold off an attack”

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 Aftermath

After the First Battle of Ypres ended the “British

casualties were reported at 58,155, mostly pre-war
professional soldiers, a loss the British could ill-
afford.  French casualties were set at around 50,000,
and German losses at 130,000 men.” “There would
be no break through along the Belgian coast and a
tiny cornor of Belgium remained in the Allied hands.
The salient around Ypres would see many more
battles, but would never fall to the Germans.”

http://www.firstworldwar.com/battles/ypres1st.htm

Barber, Nicola. World War I: Western Front. London:

Hodder Wayland
 Facts on the First and Second Battles of Ypres

-In the Second Battle of Ypres John McCrae wrote In

Flanders Field.
-Adolf Hitler participated in the First Battle of Ypres.
-The first use of poison gas was used in the Second
Battle of Ypres.
 Bibliography

Barber, Nicola. World War I: Western Front. London: Hodder Wayland

“Trench Warfare” Background

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