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a salient four miles beyond
the old line at Ypres was of little strategic or tactical value.
Ironically, in a war filled with irony, the spoils of the hard-won victory – a
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ridge – were soon lost. The British, left behind to hold Passchendaele,
were pushed back in the Germans' spring offensive of 1918. All was lost. Winston
Churchill looked back on the battle and called it “A forlorn expenditure
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German prisoners and
wounded Canadians
Wounded Canadians and some German prisoners pick their way through the treeless
landscape of Passchendaele.
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