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Worldwar1.com: Trenches on the Web: The Second Battle of Ypres, April 1915

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Freshly trained Canadian troops arrived at a quiet front on April 17, 1915. Five days later the Germans attacked with 5700 cylinders of chlorine gas and heavy artillery bombardment.

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