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The Battle of Messines was an attack
carried out by the British second army, under the command of General Sir Herbert Plumer , on the western front near the village of Messines in west Flanders, Belgium during the first world war.
It has been said that the Battle of Messines was the most successful local operation of the war, certainly of the Western Front. It was launched on 7 June 1917 with the detonation of 19 underground mines underneath the German mines.
Messines Ridge
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