World War 1 - Typical view of the terrain of the Battle of the Swamps. Canadians in the line at Passchendaele. The Flanders offensive of 1917 was maintained for three and a half months under most adverse weather conditions, in which the low-lying clayey soil torn by shells and sodden with rain turned to a succession of vast, muddy pools and long stretches of bog.
World War 1 - Typical view of the terrain of the Battle of the Swamps. Canadians in the line at Passchendaele. The Flanders offensive of 1917 was maintained for three and a half months under most adverse weather conditions, in which the low-lying clayey soil torn by shells and sodden with rain turned to a succession of vast, muddy pools and long stretches of bog.
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