Passchendaele
/ˈpæʃndeɪl/
/ˈpæʃndeɪl/
- a series of First World War battles (1917) fought near the small town of Passchendaele in Belgium. About 300 000 Allied soldiers and a similar number of Germans died, in terrible conditions. see also the Allies, Ypres
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