Battle of Ypres
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Batalla de Ypres
- Many soldiers fought bravely in the Battle of Ypres.
Examples
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Poison gas was first used on a large scale in the Battle of Ypres.
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Many soldiers lost their lives during the Battle of Ypres in 1915.
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The Battle of Ypres marked a turning point in the use of chemical warfare.
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The Battle of Ypres was a turning point in World War I.
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His division would go on to lose 50 percent of its strength a month later at the Battle of Ypres.
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The Corps began to arrive at the front during October 1914 and was immediately committed to the intense fighting at the First Battle of Ypres.
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The debut of the first poison gas, however—in this instance, chlorine—came on 22 April 1915, at the start of the Second Battle of Ypres.
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Morphology
The phrase is transparently composed of 'battle' + 'of' + a place name, so a learner who knows 'battle' and 'Ypres' will understand it refers to a battle that took place at Ypres. The genitive/locative 'of' construction is a standard, cross-linguistic pattern, so the specific historical sense is directly derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
Battle of Ypres gets its name from fierce fights near the small town Ypres in Belgium during World War I, where German troops used 'poison gas' on a large scale for the first time. That's why Battle of Ypres now refers to one of those deadly, famous 'major battles'.