Passchendaele
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"Ukraine's 'martyr cities' like Mariupol, Bakhmut, Bucha makes one think of Leuven, Ypres and Passchendaele," Lodewyck said, listing names of the sites of the worst atrocities in Ukraine and World War One-era Belgium.
From Reuters ● Feb. 24, 2023
A Month in the Country is set in 1920; Birkin somehow survived Passchendaele – the extreme shade a setting for his jewel of a Yorkshire summer, an unlooked-for gift given “on borrowed time”.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 4, 2018
Ypres and Passchendaele, Cushing writes in his diary, are where earlier ideals of military glory die for good.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2017
Around 100 people gathered Monday at the Welsh memorial in Langemark, near where the Third Battle of Ypres, known as Passchendaele, began.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 31, 2017
General Haig ordered his brave troops to battle on until the rubble of bricks that had once been the village of Passchendaele was finally captured by the Canadians on November 10, 1917.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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