Messines
Americannoun
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It was taken in the Battle of Messines in June 1917 before being recaptured by Kaiser Wilhelm’s army in 1918 in the Battle of Lys.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 10, 2019
“What you have at Messines is material that was lifted up by those huge explosions and then fell back down, burying everything,” Brown says.
From National Geographic ● Jun. 6, 2017
“But Messines deserves remembering. It’s not like the other battles, all mud and catastrophe.”
From National Geographic ● Jun. 6, 2017
Nine months later in June 1917, Irishmen from north and south would fight alongside each other for the first time in the Battle of Messines in Belgium.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2016
The first objective was to capture Messines Ridge south of Ypres and use it as a jumping-off point for the main push toward the Belgian coast.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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