During the excavation work for the railway construction between Ypres and Kortrijk in 1854, a sixty-metre-high hill was created.
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During the excavation work for the railway construction between Ypres and Kortrijk in 1854, a sixty-metre-high hill was created.
German soldier Peter Kollwitz was not yet 18 years old when he was killed on 23 October 1914 while attempting to cross the Yser near Diksmuide.
Langemark in Belgium has the dubious honor of being the place where chemical warfare made its debut: on April 22, 1915, German soldiers opened gas bottles from which 180 tons of chlorine gas hissed away. At least a thousand soldiers died in a blind panic.
Tyne Cot Cemetery is the largest British military cemetery in continental Europe. More than 10,000 soldiers who died at the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917 during the First World War were buried in the monumental cemetery in Passchendaele.
Half hidden underground on a hillside along the First World War battlefield in West Flanders, the German army built a reinforced concrete command post bunker.
Around 620, a community of monks founded an abbey atop the hill of the French village of Montfaucon d'Argonne.
A stone's throw from the Douamont fortress meanders the Boyau de Londres, a World War I trench.
Railway line 47, the section of the Vennbahn between Sankt Vith and Troisvierges, was commissioned in late 1889 and crossed the Our River via a brick viaduct near the German village of Hemmeres.
When new roads were mapped out in Iceland in the late 1940s, it made for much better accessibility to Krýsuvík, a region full of geothermal fields and a dreamed agricultural area with vast fields where sheep had been herded for centuries.
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