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Tomorrow marks the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Lys, the worst Portuguese military defeat since 1578. It's an important and traumatic event in the history of Portugal, but was it important in the big picture? Or was is it rather insignificant in the general history of the Great War?

by /u/Oppidano in /r/AskHistorians

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