{"id":95142,"date":"2025-04-13T04:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=95142"},"modified":"2025-04-12T17:22:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T21:22:57","slug":"the-most-pointless-battle-of-ww1-passchendaele-1917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/04\/13\/the-most-pointless-battle-of-ww1-passchendaele-1917\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Pointless Battle of WW1? &#8211; Passchendaele 1917"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qoF-OT_2aS8?si=3KZ7dd9lW6wc5-nH\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Great War<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 11 Apr 2025<\/p>\n<p>For more than three long months in 1917, Allied and German soldiers fought tooth and nail over a battlefield churned into a sea of sucking mud and shellholes by the guns. Hundreds of thousands were killed and wounded, some of them drowning in the soupy ground \u2014 for Allied gains of just a few kilometers. So why did the Battle of Passchendaele happen at all, and was it the most pointless battle of the First World War? <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00bb SUPPORT THE CHANNEL<br \/>\nSupport us and get 40% off Nebula: <a href=\"https:\/\/go.nebula.tv\/the-great-war\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/go.nebula.tv\/the-great-war<\/a><br \/>\nWatch 16 Days in Berlin on Nebula: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbWhyZVZNMWZiOEh5Vkp1X18xWWh0WlJVMDFad3xBQ3Jtc0tuTE1IRnlGdmpaNTRMczl1eGRwenpjM0JscWdod0tET0pXZG1FUDlVX2MwcmxTZkJoOFVmSTJwOVFVQklEdkpPNFk4d19NZHVQZUFGbE5GYmFFSmhaYkJaNDl1dWM5ZFNyQ1RldEZ5X3NoVE9YZTh5NA&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fnebula.tv%2Fvideos%2F16-days-in-berlin-01-prologue-the-beginning-of-the-end%3Fref%3Dthe-great-war&#038;v=qoF-OT_2aS8\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/nebula.tv\/videos\/16-days-in-b&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00bb THANKS TO OUR CO-PRODUCERS<br \/>\nRose Flaglor, Reed Spilmann, Erik Ritter, Cardboard, Ken Brownfield, David Garfinkle, Raymond Martin, Konstantin Bredyuk, Lisa Anderson, Brad Durbin, Jeremy K Jones, Murray Godfrey, John Ozment, Stephen Parker, Mavrides, Kristina Colburn, Stefan Jackowski, Cardboard, William Kincade, William Wallace, Daniel L Garza, Chris Daley, Malcolm Swan, Christoph Wolf, Simen R\u00f8ste, Jim F Barlow, Taylor Allen, Adam Smith, James Giliberto, Albert B. 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