Passchendaele

/ ˈpæʃənˌdeɪl /

noun

1. a village in NW Belgium, in West Flanders province: the scene of heavy fighting during the third battle of Ypres in World War I during which 245 000 British troops were lost

Example Sentences

"Someone at one time said it was like Passchendaele in the First World War," he said in 2022, as part of the BBC We Were There project.

From BBC

On the Western Front during the summer and fall of 1917, the British fought what one historian has called “the most notorious campaign of the war,” the Third Battle of Ypres, also known as the Battle of Passchendaele, after the Belgian village that was the ultimate objective of the British offensive and was totally destroyed during the fighting.

From Literature

General Haig ordered his brave troops to battle on until the rubble of bricks that had once been the village of Passchendaele was finally captured by the Canadians on November 10, 1917.

From Literature

The following March, Passchendaele would be lost again to the Germans.

From Literature

"Ukraine's 'martyr cities' like Mariupol, Bakhmut, Bucha makes one think of Leuven, Ypres and Passchendaele," Lodewyck said, listing names of the sites of the worst atrocities in Ukraine and World War One-era Belgium.

From Reuters