About: Belgium in World War I   Sponge Permalink

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To this day, the Belgian army is remembered for their stubborn resistance during the early days of the war, with the army – around a tenth the size of the German army – holding up the German offensive for nearly a month, giving the French and British forces time to prepare for the Marne counteroffensive later in the year. The German invaders treated any resistance—such as demolition of bridges and rail lines—as illegal and subversive, and shot the offenders and burned buildings in retaliation.

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  • Belgium in World War I
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  • To this day, the Belgian army is remembered for their stubborn resistance during the early days of the war, with the army – around a tenth the size of the German army – holding up the German offensive for nearly a month, giving the French and British forces time to prepare for the Marne counteroffensive later in the year. The German invaders treated any resistance—such as demolition of bridges and rail lines—as illegal and subversive, and shot the offenders and burned buildings in retaliation.
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  • To this day, the Belgian army is remembered for their stubborn resistance during the early days of the war, with the army – around a tenth the size of the German army – holding up the German offensive for nearly a month, giving the French and British forces time to prepare for the Marne counteroffensive later in the year. The German invaders treated any resistance—such as demolition of bridges and rail lines—as illegal and subversive, and shot the offenders and burned buildings in retaliation. Flanders was the main base of the British army and it saw some of the greatest loss of life on both sides of the Western Front.
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