Part one of term paper
The Battle of 3rd Ypres (Passchendaele) (The edited text of a paper given in France in November 1993. The original paper was illustrated by contemporary slide photographs and maps; this text is best read in conjunction with a map of the area.) In 1915, at the second Battle of Ypres, the Germans used chlorine gas for the first time in warfare ...

Part two of term paper
... the front line through the Menin Gate. In 1917, the area of Flanders to the east of Ypres had great strategic importance because it was dominated by a German occupied ridge from the East to the South of Ypres. This was the only high ground in a flat, featureless plain and, if the British could only break out of the Ypres salient and take it, they could turn North and drive the Germans from the Belgian coast and capture the ports of Ostend and Zeebrugge from the enemy. The German position in Belgium ...