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Messines

American  
[me-seen] / mɛˈsin /

noun

  1. a village in W Belgium, near Ypres: battles 1914, 1917.


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He laid wreaths at the sites where the Somme and the Battle of Messines took place a century earlier.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2024

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

“But Messines deserves remembering. It’s not like the other battles, all mud and catastrophe.”

From National Geographic ● Jun. 6, 2017

Brown has been digging in the Messines off and on for some 20 years.

From National Geographic ● Jun. 6, 2017

The assault on Messines Ridge was a spectacular tactical success.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

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