The poem "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae was written during the Second Battle of Ypres.
Ypres is a city in Belgium.
The battle in Flanders Fields influenced the writing "In Flanders Field"
The ancient country of Flanders is mostly in eastern Belgium. The famous poem refers to battlefields in Belgium and in northeastern France (mostly, Ypres, the Somme, and Passchendaele), specifically, to 2nd Ypres, which was the battle the author of the poem (John McCrae) fought in.
Passchendaele is in West Flanders in Belgium.
There doesn't appear to be one online. However Flanders Field cemetary is administered by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) so they could probably provide a list to you.
Not exclusively. The British Army always held the northernmost end of the Allied line in France, and at the extreme northern end a tiny slice of Belgium. The British generally held from 50-70 miles of the trenches, which were in the part of France called Flanders. So just about all British troops killed in the war died in some part of Flanders.
Battle of the argonne forest
Yes. there are poems written about flanders feilds where the fallen now rest.
Belgium. A great battle was fought at Flanders Field in WWI.
second battle of ypres
The bloody battle in Belgium occurred on Flanders Field.
The ancient country of Flanders is mostly in eastern Belgium. The famous poem refers to battlefields in Belgium and in northeastern France (mostly, Ypres, the Somme, and Passchendaele), specifically, to 2nd Ypres, which was the battle the author of the poem (John McCrae) fought in.
World War 1Both the First Battle of Ypres and the Second Battle of Ypres were bloody, but the second stands out because it was the first use of poison gas by the Germans. World War 2Battle of the Bulge or the Ardenne Forrest. Napoleonic WarsThe Battle of Waterloo.
The Fourth Battle of Ypres (also known as the Lys Offensive) was fought in Flanders , Belgium .
I think mostly because a Canadian wrote the poem "Flanders Fields". Flanders was allegedly a generic name for battlefields in the county of Flanders in Belgium. Canada fought many of their most important battles there; Ypres, The Somme and Passchendaele. John MacCrae wrote the poem during the battle of the Somme, in Flanders.
Flanders, The Somme, Ypres, Passchendaele and Gallipoli
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Passchendaele is in West Flanders in Belgium.
William Sawle has written: 'An impartial relation of all the transactions between the army of the confederates and that of the French king in their last summers campaign in Flanders, with a more particular respect to the battle of Fleury' -- subject(s): Sources, Campaigns, Fleurus, Battle of, Fleurus, Belgium, 1690, Grand Alliance, War of the, 1689-1697