Whoops, 1/4 is way too high. The total casualties are shown as 420,000 British, 200,000 French, and an estimated 500,000 German casualties. However, the British and French systematically underreported Allied casualties and issued inflated estimates of German casualties.
8 posted on
05/30/2005 8:55:00 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
remember your history...Flanders is a reference to the Belgian territory upon which the three battles of Ypres were fought. Passandaele I believe was the third of those battles, occurring in late 1917. It remains that it, as were most of the large land engagements, frightful slaughters brought on by generals and politicians trapped in the age of Napoleon and Bismark.
9 posted on
05/30/2005 9:05:42 PM PDT by
massatoosits
(just ask the Brits...)
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