Second Battle of Ypres/battle of Gravenstafel 22-23 April 1915

Famous quotes containing the words battle, ypres and/or april:

    “Forty years after a battle it is easy for a noncombatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another thing personally and under fire to have to direct the fighting while involved in the obscuring smoke of it.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “A good wif was ther ofbiside bathe,
    But she was somde, deef, and that was scathe.
    Of clooth makyng the hadde swich an haunt,
    She passed hem of Ypres and of Gaunt.”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    “Shining through tears, like April suns in showers,
    That labour to o’ercome the cloud that loads ‘em.”
    —Thomas Otway (1652–1685)