British withdraw to a new line 3 miles closer to Ypres
Belligerents
British Empire
Canada
India
United Kingdom
France
Algeria
Morocco
Belgium
German Empire
Commanders and leaders
Horace Smith-Dorrien (replaced by)
Herbert Plumer (6 May 1915~)
Arthur Currie
Henri Gabriel Putz
Armand De Ceuninck
Albrecht of Württemberg
Strength
2 French divisions
6 British divisions
7 divisions
Casualties and losses
French: 2,000–3,000 to 21,973
British: 59,275
35,000+
Ypres
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Ypres, a Belgian municipality in the Flemish province of West Flanders
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Battles of Ypres, 1915
Gravenstafel Ridge
Kitcheners' Wood
St. Julien
Frezenberg
Bellewaarde
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Western Front
1914
Moresnet
Invasion of Belgium
Liège
Dinant
Namur
Frontiers
Lorraine
Ardennes
Charleroi
Mons
Trouée de Charmes
Great Retreat
Le Cateau
Étreux
1st St. Quentin
Maubeuge
Grand Couronné
1st Marne
1st Aisne
Antwerp
Race to the Sea
Yser
1st Ypres
Winter actions
1st Artois
1915
1st Champagne
Hartmannswillerkopf
Neuve Chapelle
2nd Ypres
2nd Artois
Hébuterne
2nd Champagne
Loos
3rd Artois
Gas: Wieltje
1916
The Bluff
Hohenzollern Redoubt
St Eloi
Hulluch
Wulverghem
Kink Salient
Vimy Ridge 1916
Mont Sorrel
Verdun
Boar's Head
1st Somme
Fromelles
1917
Ancre
Alberich
Nivelle offensive
Arras
Vimy
2nd Aisne
The Hills
Messines
Passchendaele
La Malmaison
Cambrai
1918
German spring offensive
Michael
The Lys
3rd Aisne
Belleau Wood
2nd Marne
Soissons
Amiens
Ailette
2nd Somme
Saint-Mihiel
St Quentin Canal
Meuse-Argonne
5th Ypres
2nd Cambrai
Courtrai
Sambre
Lys and Escaut
Associated articles
1914 Christmas truce
French Army mutinies
Western Front tactics, 1917
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