From October , a few weeks after the outbreak of war in August , the peaceful way of life in this part of Belgian Flanders was shattered by the arrival of massed military forces and their destructive weapons of war.
French and British soldiers arrived in the town a few days later, from 14 October, to put up a defence and to block the route for the German Army through Ypres to the ports on the French and Belgian coast. Soldiers in the British Army quickly turned the name of Ypres into a much easier word to pronounce.
Ypres never fell into German occupation during the war. The town was an important strategic landmark blocking the route for the Imperial German Army through to the Belgian and French coastal ports.
Many thousands of Allied troops died to maintain the Allies' possession of this place. The elm was a common native species in the region. The Roman invasion of the region in the first century B. In later times, French forces captured and took over the town more than once, and also the town was officially French-speaking as the official language of the new Belgian nation was French from , the town was known by its French name of Ypres , again derived from its original name of Ieper.
In the 10th century the Iepere river was flowing from the Kemmelberg, via Ieper, Dixmuide, Ostende to Brugge and into the sea. However, from the 11th century the Iepere river flowing through Ieper was re-routed by the local people as part of defensive measures and to assist small trading boats to navigate into the centre of the town. Diversions were put in the river to create two moated areas of high ground in the south and in the north of the town.
There was also an additional diversion created from the southern moated sectors so that the river flowed from there through the centre of the town along an artificially channeled second parallel arm to join the northern moated sector. In the 14th century and the Burgundian period of occupation, one of the man-made adaptions to the river and its flow through the town as the adapted Ieperleet, was that a sluice gate was constructed under one of the round towers in the Rijselpoort Lille Gate.
This was to control the waterflow from the river into the town. Since the first century B. In spite of this, Ypres managed to establish itself as a financially and culturally rich city in the 12th century.
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