[DOC] [TLE] Battle of Passchendaele - Wikipedia [PAR] The Battle of Passchendaele was a major campaign of the First World War, 
fought by the Allies against the German Empire. The battle took place on the 
Western Front, from July to November 1917, ... Passchendaele lay on the last 
ridge east of Ypres, 5 miles (8.0 km) from a railway junction at Roulers, which 
was vital to the... [DOC] [TLE] Battle of the Somme - World War One Cemeteries [PAR] At the end of the battle, British and French forces had penetrated 6 miles (9.7 ... 
occupied territory, with the British Army still three miles (5 km) from Bapaume, ... 
front line over the winter of 19161917, before withdrawing from the Somme ... 
had lost most of the army's pre-war regular soldiers in the battles of 1914 and 
1915. [DOC] [TLE] Ninety Years Ago - 1918 - Western Front Association [PAR] Nov 7, 2008 ... Key Stage 5 resources ... A conference in 1917 had concluded "We must beat the 
British" and .... mile front from Arras to the River Somme mostly held by the British 
Fifth Army. ... On one sector only fifty men survived out of about 4,000. ..... gained 
large areas of territory but they had lost about 645,000 men... [DOC] [TLE] WW1 Battles of the Ypres Salient - The GreatWar 1914-1918 [PAR] A summary of the WW1 battles that took place around the Ypres Salient during ... 
According to local accounts, the first contact for the people of Ypres with the First 
.... The British battalions fought to hold their ground but also lost casualties in ... 
The ridge lay in a north to south direction a few miles south of the town of Ypres. [DOC] [TLE] Battles of the Western Front 1914-1918 - The GreatWar 1914-1918 [PAR] The British Expeditionary Force, fighting on the battlefields in Belgium and 
France for .... The Battle of Charleroi (21 - 23 August 1914) was fought at the town 
of Charleroi ..... The Champagne offensive gained a few miles of ground and 
captured some ... By late May 1916 the Second German Army commander in the 
Somme... [DOC] [TLE] An American Account of World War I [PAR] The event that set off war in Europe came in late June at Sarajevo where a 
fanatical .... and masses of casualties--British and French in 1915 lost 1.5 million 
men killed, ... When the Germans first opened submarine warfare early in 1915, 
only 27 ..... of 1917 total ship sinkings declined steadily; in December less than 
400,000... [DOC] [TLE] 5 Things You Need To Know About The Battle Of The Somme ... [PAR] German Wire, Thiepval, 1917, by William Orpen. ... Over the course of the battle, 
British forces took a strip of territory 6 miles ... After around a year of training, most 
of these men began to see active service from late 1915 and early 1916 ... 
Although the British Army suffered heavy casualties for relatively little territorial 
gain on... [DOC] [TLE] Top 10 Deadliest Battles of World War I - Toptenz.net [PAR] Jan 28, 2011 ... The Battle of Arras opened on 9 April, 1917, and initial efforts led to ... The British 
lost 158,000 casualties in the assault, to a German loss of ... with the British 
gaining only slender territorial gains for their efforts. ... The Allies lost a total of 
448,614 men to the Germans 400,000. .... Diplodocus  5 months ago. [DOC] [TLE] The Battle [PAR] Somme - 1916- North of Somme- 30 miles where the British try to break the 
German lines. ... Lost 250,000 men and withdrew in Jan. ... they break through 
Italian lines late 1917-; Battle of Caporetto- but are pushed back with .... 
September 5 -10, 1914 .... Battle of Verdun = 700,000 killed on both sides with no 
gain in territory. [DOC] [TLE] World War One - Paralumun New Age Village [PAR] Russia, one of the Allied Powers, was an empire until 1917, but it was opposed 
.... east of Paris at the First Battle of the Marne (5 September - 12 September). ... 
incapacitated 230,000 more French and British troops than it had lost itself.

Question: In the late 1917 battle for this town, the British lost 400,000 men & only gained about 5 miles of territory
Answer: Ypres