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    The Dyle (French: [dil]; Dutch: Dijle [ˈdɛilə]) is a river in central Belgium, left tributary of the Rupel. It is 86 kilometres (53 mi) long. It flows...
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  • Dyle may refer to: Dyle (river), a river in central Belgium, tributary of the Rupel Dyle, Poland, a village Dyle plan, a French plan for defending against...
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    the Dyle and the Rupel. It joins the Dyle at Zennegat in Battel, north of the municipality of Mechelen, only a few hundred metres before the Dyle itself...
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    Western Front. The BEF participated in the Dyle Plan, a rapid advance into Belgium to the line of the Dyle River, but the 1st Army Group had to retreat rapidly...
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    K-W Line (redirect from Dyle Line)
    (French: Ligne KW; Dutch: KW-stelling) and often known as the Dyle Line after the Dijle (Dyle) river, was a 60 kilometres (37 mi)-long fortified line of defence...
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  • The Battle of Leuven, also called the Battle of the River Dyle, was fought in September 891 between East Francia and the Vikings. The existence of this...
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    to defeat a German attempt to invade France through Belgium. The Dyle (Dijle) river is 86 km (53 mi) long, from Houtain-le-Val through Flemish Brabant...
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    of the thema of Longobardia. Battle of Leuven: Viking raiders on the Dyle River (near Leuven), in modern-day Belgium, suffer a crushing defeat by Frankish...
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    "sitzkrieg," a bolder Plan D emerged that called for an advance as far as the Dyle River, a few miles east of Brussels. Patricia S. Daniels; Stephen Garrison Hyslop;...
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    and French First Empire in present-day Belgium. It was named after the river Dyle (Dijle), which flows through the department. Its territory corresponded...
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    aid Belgium was the Dyle Plan; the cream of the Allied forces, including French armoured divisions, would advance to the Dyle river in response to a German...
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    Colonel Zepelin, from the 9th Brigade, which had not yet crossed the river Dyle, was to be left in occupation of Wavre. The 12th Brigade was already in...
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    Louvain. His county, with its original capital of Louvain built upon the Dyle river, between the old Pagus of Brabant and Pagus of Hasbania, rapidly increased...
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    the Gembloux Gap (la trouée de Gembloux), Wavre, Louvain and along the Dyle river to Antwerp, which was 70–80 km (43–50 mi) shorter than the alternatives...
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    British Expeditionary Force, advanced to the Dyle river to form a solid front line as part of the Dyle Plan, a defensive strategy to halt the German...
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    in naming the new departments. Most were named after an area's principal river or other physical features. Even Paris was in the department of Seine. Savoy...
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    further to the Dyle river (modern Dijle) via Malines and Assche. The Allies were now arrayed with York's 30,000 men guarding the Dyle river from Antwerp...
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    operational plan Fall Gelb (Case Yellow). Allied armies responded with the Dyle Plan (Breda variant), intended to halt the Germans in Belgium, believing...
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    defeats, initiated an offensive in the Low Countries by crossing the Dyle river. Marlborough engaged Villeroi's army near Ramillies on 23 May. Along with...
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    communication and supply positions, and supported Reichenau as he reached the Dyle river. At that time, he had moved into the Netherlands, at a hotel, near Maastricht...
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  • of the thema of Longobardia. Battle of Leuven: Viking raiders on the Dyle River (near Leuven), in modern-day Belgium, suffer a crushing defeat by Frankish...
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  • Wimp (in Herenthout) Molse Nete (in Geel) Laak (in Westerlo) Dijle (French: Dyle) (in Rumst) Zenne (French: Senne) (near Mechelen) Maalbeek (in Grimbergen)...
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    Basilica of Our Lady of Hanswijk and the Dyle river...
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    Supreme Allied Commander, initiated the Dyle Plan (Plan D) and invaded Belgium to close up to the Dyle river with the French First and Seventh armies...
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    Marlborough had held him responsible for the failure of a maneuver near the Dyle River. While the Dutch general enjoyed support in the provincial regions of...
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  • Mechelen, a Belgian city near Antwerp, was settled on the banks of the Dyle river in Gallic-Roman times. In 1303 it became the first seller of wool, and...
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    for separated parts of the detachment to support each other near the Dyle; the river was swollen by rain and its banks were swampy. As Grouchy moved to...
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    (alias Peter Joshua, Alexander Dyle and Adam Canfield) Audrey Hepburn as Regina "Reggie" Lampert Walter Matthau as Carson Dyle (alias Hamilton Bartholomew)...
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  • fought at Wavre holding the extreme left flank on the west bank of the Dyle River while Chastel watched the far right flank on the east bank. There was...
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  • Arnulf, to Nivelles Abbey, of 5 manses with meadow and forest on the upper Dyle river. In that charter two younger brothers of Arnulf are named: Herman and...
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