Second Battle of Ypres 1915. During the First World War, the Second Battle of Ypres was fought from 22 April ââ¬â 25 May 1915 for control of the strategic Flemish town of Ypres in western Belgium. The First Battle of Ypres had been fought the previous autumn. On April 22, 1915, German forces shock Allied soldiers along the Western Front by firing more than 150 tons of lethal chlorine gas against two French colonial divisions at Ypres in Belgium. ... Now referred to as the Second Battle of Ypres, the offensive began with the usual artillery bombardment of the enemy`s line.
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