- 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...
- 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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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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Flanders along the coast,
known as the Yser Front,
along the Yser and the
Ieperlee from
Nieuwpoort to Boezinge. Meanwhile, the
British Expeditionary Force...
- for a long time. In Belgium, the
Poperinge canal, Kemmelb****, Lovaart,
Ieperlee and
Handzamevaart join the river. The Yser
flows into the
North Sea at...
-
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...
- 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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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...
- 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...
- Republic) Isar > Aire (Yorkshire) Isar > Yser (Belgium) Isar > Ypres,
Ieperlee (Belgium) (Respectively in
French and Dutch) Isar >
Issel (Germany) Isar...
