The First Battle of Ypres, 1914

Ypres, strategically located on the road to the port of Flanders in 1914, Ypres, the city of Belgium The first fight of Ypres was a countless battle scene from the 16th century. "Sea race" began with German failures in September 1914 's fight at Marne and subsequent counterattacks' counterattacks. This so-called race ends at the North Sea coast after each army moves to the north and the west and attempts to surround each other. This area of ​​Flanders was explained by historians as having the steepest landscape in Western Europe. And through it there is a final gap which any party can exert a decisive thrust.

Ypres' first fight (from October 19, 1914 to November 22, 1914). During the First World War, Germany failed to break the Allied Front in Ypres' desperate fight, the last episode of the Western campaign in 1914. It tells the end of the war and the two sides have built a wonderful groove network that extends from Switzerland to the North Sea. In the tactical stagnation of the Aisne campaign (September 13-28), the German army retreated after losing Marne's first fight and the German Army commander and the Allied forces commander were in a decisive battle elsewhere I was able to find it. Both sides began a series of smuggling movements and marched north toward Belgian coast. As later known as "offshore race", the Germans and the French immediately placed reserves. And by either side we prevented the possibility of a breakthrough.

The first battle of Ypres (French: Première Batailledes Flandres German: Erste Flandernschlacht, October 19 - November 22) was held in Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium in October and November. On the Western Front around 1914, this fight was part of the first battle of Flanders, and from 10 October until mid-November the French army of Germany, France, Belgium and the British Expedition Force (BEF) went. Aras' war to the Nieuport on the coast of Belgium. The battle of Ypres began at the end of the German and French "sea race" - the British tried to surpass the opponent's north wing. In the north of Ypres, the fight lasted between the Yser fight (October 16 - 31), the 4th German army, the Belgian army and the French Marines.