The bayonet trench in Douamont, France, is a war memorial on the Verdun battlefield that rests on a war myth.
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The bayonet trench in Douamont, France, is a war memorial on the Verdun battlefield that rests on a war myth.
Although today, Vloethemveld is a 350-hectare nature reserve a stone's throw from Bruges, it was once home to a Belgian army ammunition depot and the nature area also hides other military secrets.
During the final months of World War I, the British Army Troop Company Royal Engineers erected a concrete bridge over the Kemmelbeek near Ypres.
New Year's Eve 1874. Over a railway viaduct hundreds of metres long near Wesel, Germany, a first train thunders over what will become the transnational railway line between Paris and Hamburg.
On Monday evening, 3 August 1914, an explosion signalled the start of World War I in Belgium. Belgian combat engineers detonated the southern portal of the Laschet train tunnel.
During the First Battle of Ypres, on 1 November 1914 to be precise, Bavarian troops succeeded in capturing the West Flanders village of Wijtschate and the Croonaert Forest.
The Battle of the Polygoon Forest took place in Zonnebeke from September 26 to 27, 1917. Australian and New Zealand soldiers eliminated the German bunkers and fortifications one by one.
To defend the nation against foreign attacks, a series of forts were built around Antwerp, Liège and Namur from the end of the nineteenth century. For example, the Defense Line of Antwerp consisted of sixteen larger strongholds in a wide circle around the city, including Fort Breendonk.
In early May 1915, Canadian doctor and poet John McCrae wrote the world-famous poem 'In Flanders Fields' from a medical aid station a stone's throw from Ypres.
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