YPRES AND THE BATTLES OF YPRES.
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YPRES AND THE BATTLES OF YPRES
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YPRES
AND THE BATTLES FOR ITS POSSESSION
The town of Ypres lies in a sort of natural basin formed by a maritimeplain intersected by canals, and dominated on the north, north-east andsouth by low wooded hills.
These canals, of which the Yser Canal is the most important, follow ageneral direction south-east—north-west. A number of streams flowingin the same direction also water the plain. In addition, there are theDickebusch, Zillebeke and Bellewaarde ponds.
The hills forming the sides of this basin are very low and partly wooded.The line of their crests runs approximately from north to south, throughHouthulst Forest (road from Poelcappelle to Clercken), Poelcappelle,Passchendaele, Broodseinde, Becelaere, Gheluvelt, the strategic Hill 60(south of Zillebeke) and St. Eloi. Further south is the Messines-Wytschaeteridge, and to the south-west the Hills of Flanders.
Houthulst Forest is the largest of the woods. Next come the islets ofWestroosebeke and Passchendaele, then, south of Zonnebeke, PolygoneWood, Nonne-Bosschen (or Nonnes) Wood, and the Woods of Glencorse,Inverness and Herenthage.
In this region, with its essentially maritime climate, the war assumeda character entirely different from that of the rest of the front. Themarshy ground, almost at sea-level, is further sodden by constant rain andmists, and forms a spongy mass, in which it was impossible to dig trenchesor underground shelters. Water is found immediately below the surface,so th