Battle of Messines
{'<entity_0>': 'Battle of Messines', '<entity_1>': 'Race to the Sea', '<entity_2>': '12 October 1914', '<entity_3>': 'Second Army', '<entity_4>': 'Belgium', '<entity_5>': 'German Empire'}
[['Battle of Messines', 'start time', '12 October 1914'], ['Battle of Messines', 'part of', 'Race to the Sea'], ['Battle of Messines', 'location', 'Belgium'], ['Battle of Messines', 'country', 'Belgium'], ['Battle of Messines', 'participant', 'German Empire'], ['Battle of Messines', 'participant', 'Second Army']]
The <entity_0> was fought in <entity_2> between the armies of the <entity_5> and British empires, as part of the <entity_1>, between the river Douve and the Comines–Ypres canal. On 24 September, the French advance met a <entity_5> attack rather than an open flank and by 29 September, having been reinforced to eight corps, the <entity_3> was still being opposed by <entity_5> forces near Lille, rather than advancing around an open <entity_5> northern (right) flank. The moves of the 7th and then the 6th Army from Alsace and Lorraine had been intended to secure <entity_5> lines of communication through <entity_4>, where the Belgian army had sortied several times during the period between the Franco-British retreat and the Battle of the Marne.
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