1914–18: World War I
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At the outbreak of World War I, the German army swept into neutral Belgium. The Belgians thwarted their advance by flooding the land. The front settled near the medieval town of Ypres (see Ieper (Ypres)). Over the next four years, half a million people from both sides died there.
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