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    The siege of Antwerp (Dutch: Beleg van Antwerpen, French: Siège d'Anvers, German: Belagerung von Antwerpen) was an engagement between the German and the...
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  • Siege of Antwerp may refer to: Fall of Antwerp, a 1584–1585 siege of Antwerp conducted by Spanish forces against a Dutch garrison during the Eighty Years'...
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    1914 by German soldiers after the Siege of Antwerp (1914). Many of its treasures were taken to Berlin and not returned until after the Armistice of 11...
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    Antwerp on 19 August. Brussels was occupied the following day and the siege of Namur began on 21 August. After the Battle of Mons and the Battle of Charleroi...
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  • Przemyśl (1914–15) – World War I Siege of Antwerp (1914) – World War I Siege of Tsingtao (1914) – World War I Defense of Van (1915) – World War I Siege of Novogeorgievsk...
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    Monster Mortar (category Mortars of Belgium)
    [The Siege of the Citadel of Antwerp in 1832] (PDF) (in Dutch). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2011. "The siege of the citadel of Antwerp. The...
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    at Antwerp during its siege. Belgian military planning was based on an assumption that other powers would eject an invader but the likelihood of a German...
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  • The following is a list of the casualties count in battles or offensives in world history. The list includes both sieges (not technically battles but usually...
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    Big Bertha (howitzer) (category Siege artillery)
    Big Bertha, was a German siege howitzer built by Krupp AG in Essen, Germany and fielded by the Imperial German Army from 1914 to 1918. The M-Gerät had...
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  • of War], Wiener Zeitung [Vienna Newspaper], July 28, 1914, Extraausgabe [Special Edition], Amtlicher Teil [Official Section], 19" (PDF). Library of Congress...
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    1585, Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza, captured Antwerp after a long siege. During the siege of Antwerp, Hoboken was partly flooded and...
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  • Population: 361,723. St. Boniface Church consecrated. 1914 – September–October: Siege of Antwerp; German occupation begins. 1920 1920 Summer Olympics held...
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    Antwerp (/ˈæntwɜːrp/ ; Dutch: Antwerpen [ˈɑntʋɛrpə(n)] ; French: Anvers [ɑ̃vɛʁs] ) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is...
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    Victor Deguise (category Belgian prisoners of war)
    on 20 August 1914, from where it conducted two sorties out of Antwerp to force the German army to detach additional troops to the siege and to harass...
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    Belgian field army at Antwerp; the last fort was surrendered on 25 August. Belgium portal Liège Medal Siege of Przemyśl (September 1914–March 1915) The 9th...
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    William Denis Browne (category Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War I)
    Battalion of the 2nd Naval Brigade. They participated in the abortive Antwerp Expedition in October 1914, which sought to relieve the Siege of Antwerp, before...
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    Archibald Alexander Gordon (category British recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France))
    war cemeteries. Major Gordon gave a tour near Antwerp and explained the scenes of the Siege of Antwerp. Later that day the suite arrived at Malines where...
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    North Sea, was occupied by Belgian troops withdrawing from Antwerp after the Siege of Antwerp (28 September – 10 October). The outflanking attempts resulted...
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    happened. Siege of Antwerp – Belgian troops attacked Germany's eastern flank, capturing key river crossings and the town of Aarschot east of the city....
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    Hans Hartwig von Beseler (category Members of the Prussian House of Lords)
    possession of the city of Antwerp on 9 September. The Siege of Antwerp ended on 10 October, when Antwerp's Mayor Jan De Vos, surrendered the city. Beseler followed...
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    Škoda 305 mm Model 1911 (category Siege artillery)
    Romania A turret cupola from one of Antwerp's fortresses hit and split by a 30.5 cm shell during the Siege of Antwerp in 1914. Wikimedia Commons has media...
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    year 1876 as part of the defensive ring around the city of Antwerp. In October 1914, during the final stages of the Siege of Antwerp, the fort was slighted...
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    of defensive forts around the city and port of Antwerp. The National Redoubt was a 95 km (59 mi)-long belt of fortifications built from 1859 to 1914,...
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    retreat to Antwerp. The German Siege of Namur ended with a Belgian capitulation on 24 August, as the field army made a sortie from Antwerp towards Brussels...
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    42 cm Gamma howitzer (category Siege artillery)
    First Battle of the Marne prevented the siege guns at Maubeuge from being sent against Paris, so they were sent back into Belgium to Antwerp. The Belgian...
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  • Federigo Giambelli (category Year of death unknown)
    Antwerp was besieged by Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma in 1584, he offered his services to Elizabeth I of England, who, having satisfied herself of...
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    2/4th Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment (category Regiments of Belgium)
    distinguished itself during the Siege of Antwerp. On 16 October 1914 the Battle of the Yser began, leading to four years of battles in the trenches on the...
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    Race to the Sea (category Conflicts in 1914)
    who had retreated after the Siege of Antwerp (28 September – 10 October). The outflanking attempts had resulted in a number of encounter battles but neither...
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    flank beyond the 1st Army and the danger of attacks from the National redoubt of Belgium, where the Siege of Antwerp had begun on 20 August, created a dilemma...
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  • Belgian soldiers entered the Netherlands. When, on 10 October 1914, the city of Antwerp fell to the advancing German army, an estimated 40,000 soldiers...
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