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Battle of Passchendaele
1917 CE · Belgium
Quick Facts
- Year
- 1917 CE
- Location
- Belgium
- Era
- 🪖 World Wars
- Difficulty
- hard
The Third Battle of Ypres, known as Passchendaele, became the defining symbol of the senseless horror of World War I. Torrential rain turned the Flanders battlefield into a quagmire where men and horses drowned in mud-filled shell craters. After three months and over 500,000 combined casualties, Canadian forces captured the ruins of Passchendaele village—an advance of just five miles that was lost within months.
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The mud at Passchendaele was so deep and liquid that wounded soldiers who fell off the duckboard paths could drown before anyone could reach them. Pack mules disappeared entirely into shell holes.