Word: ypres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effectiveness of gas in killing or injuring depends chiefly on lack of preparation against it. The Allies at Ypres in 1915 were taken by surprise. Ignorant civilians might still be panicked by it. But soldiers and civilians who have masks and know what to do are relatively safe. (The Japs at Tarawa were well equipped with masks.) Gas attacks can, of course, seriously hamper military or civilian movement. But on the other hand war gases are readily blown or washed away by wind, rain and snow, and they may be blown back in the faces of their users. The blister...
...ever play the politician's part. Last week the opportunity came: he was named Viceroy of India. By putting a military man in the post, Britain broke a precedent standing since 1858. At 60, the scion of a family of generals, the trooper who lost an eye at Ypres, who studied desert tactics under Lord Allenby and applied them triumphantly in the Cyrenaica campaign of 1941, the reader of Socrates, Shakespeare and Browning - this closemouthed, wry-humored Briton took over the Empire's most complex, burdensome political post and became ruler of 390,000,000 people...
...noisy grenade was introduced into battle and each regiment got a grenadier company of picked men. Gradually the word grenadier became synonymous with elite. At Waterloo the Guards defeated Napoleon's last hope, his Imperial Guard, so decisively that they were awarded the title Grenadiers. At Ypres in 1914, 61 officers and 650 men of the Grenadiers went into action, and four officers and 150 men came...
...Some of these regiments fought at La Coruña, Alma, Khartoum, Lucknow, Ypres and the Marne. They were in the Crimean War. They embarked for the St. Lawrence, they landed on the beaches of Gallipoli. They fought with France and the U.S., and against them...
...machine-gun fire. In ten hours 10,000 German soldiers surrendered. The Allied command lacked the wit or experience to make Cambrai a decisive victory, but the tank had made its effective debut. (A few tanks had been so misused at the Somme and in the Third Battle of Ypres that most military men ignored them...