The Ieperlee (or Ypres-Ijzer Canal) is a canalized river that rises in Heuvelland in the Belgian province of West Flanders and flows via the city of Ypres...
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until 1918. The front ran along the Yser river (IJzer) and Yser Canal (Ieperlee) in the far north-west of Belgium and defended a small strip of the country...
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first mentioned by name in 1066 and is probably named after the river Ieperlee on the banks of which it was founded. During the Middle Ages, Ypres was...
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Flanders along the coast, known as the Yser Front, along the Yser and the Ieperlee from Nieuwpoort to Boezinge. Meanwhile, the British Expeditionary Force...
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this site in 1915. Site John McCrae is located directly adjacent to the Ieperlee (Ypres Canal), about halfway in between the centre of Ypres and the centre...
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for a long time. In Belgium, the Poperinge canal, Kemmelbeek, Lovaart, Ieperlee and Handzamevaart join the river. The Yser flows into the North Sea at...
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Republic) Isar > Aire (Yorkshire) Isar > Yser (Belgium) Isar > Ypres, Ieperlee (Belgium) (Respectively in French and Dutch) Isar > Issel (Germany) Isar...
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World War I. Ypres lies at the junction of the Ypres–Comines Canal and the Ieperlee. The city is overlooked by Kemmel Hill in the south-west and from the east...
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Honfleur) Oise (near Paris, France) Yser (Dutch: IJzer) (in Nieuwpoort) Ieperlee (in Diksmuide) List of lakes of Belgium Zeeschelde Oehl Wikimedia Commons...
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Date 16–31 October 1914 Location River Yser and Ieperlee, Belgium 51°09′10″N 02°43′23″E / 51.15278°N 2.72306°E / 51.15278; 2.72306 Result Allied victory...
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