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| Part of the Race to the Sea on the Western Front (World War I) | |||||||
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 Viscount Edmund Allenby , |
 Crown Prince Rupprecht | ||||||
The battle of Messines was part of the Race to the Sea.[1] In the aftermath of the first battle of the Marne, the staff decided to move the British Army back north to Flanders, to shorten its supply lines back to the channel harbours. The battle of Messines was the official name for the fighting between the river Douve and the Comines-Ypres canal, but it happened to merge into the battle of Armentières to the south and the first battle of Ypres to the north[2].
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