battle in World War I (1917); an Allied offensive which eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of Flanders; Germans introduced mustard gas which interfered with the Allied artillery
a fierce battle fought in close combat between troops in predetermined positions at a chosen time and place
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