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    The German invasion of Belgium was a military campaign which began on 4 August 1914. On 24 July, the Belgian government had announced that if war came...
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  • German invasion of Belgium may refer to: German invasion of Belgium (1914) during World War I German invasion of Belgium (1940) during World War II This...
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    deported to Germany. German forces destroyed 25,000 homes and other buildings in 837 communities in 1914 alone, and 1.5 million Belgians (20% of the entire...
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  • Invasion of Belgium may refer to: German invasion of Belgium (1914) German invasion of Belgium (1940) List of wars involving Belgium This article includes...
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    The invasion of Belgium or Belgian campaign (10–28 May 1940), often referred to within Belgium as the 18 Days' Campaign (French: Campagne des 18 jours...
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  • German invasion may refer to: German invasion of Hungary (1063) German invasion of Belgium (1914) German invasion of Luxembourg (1914) Invasion of Poland...
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    history of Belgium in World War I traces Belgium's role between the German invasion in 1914, through the continued military resistance and occupation of the...
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    The German invasion of Luxembourg was part of Case Yellow (German: Fall Gelb), the German invasion of the Low Countries—Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands—and...
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    Belgium by the forces of the German Empire between 1914 and 1918. Beginning in August 1914 with the invasion of neutral Belgium, the country was almost...
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    order of battle for the Belgian Army at the start of the German invasion of Belgium in August 1914. At the outbreak of World War I, the Belgian Army was...
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    The Russian invasion of East Prussia occurred during World War I, lasting from August to September 1914. As well as being the natural course for the Russian...
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    The German atrocities of 1914 were committed by the Imperial German Army at the beginning of World War I in Belgium, particularly in Wallonia, and in...
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    August 4, 1914, the German army invaded Belgium a few days after sending an ultimatum to the Belgian government [fr] asking it to allow German troops to...
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    War crimes in World War I (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    of chemical weapons and the targeting of medical facilities. During the first invasion of Serbia in 1914, Austro-Hungarian forces occupied parts of the...
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  • declaration of war upon Germany occurred on 4 August 1914. The declaration was a result of German refusal to remove troops from neutral Belgium. In 1839...
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    troops, the Belgian field army and the British Royal Naval Division in the Antwerp area, after the German invasion of Belgium in August 1914. The city,...
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  • United States (New York: National Defense Institute, 1916), 94. "Invasion of Belgium". Spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2013-11-18...
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    Battle of Liège (5–16 August 1914) [also French: Bataille de Liège] was the opening engagement of the German invasion of Belgium and the first battle of the...
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    Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union; which marked the beginning of World War II. The German invasion began on...
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    invaders launched the Rape of Belgium. During the 1940 invasion, the quick surrender by Leopold III of Belgium to German forces drove a wedge between...
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    through Belgium to capture Paris from the north. The German invasion of Belgium caused Britain to declare war on Germany on August 4. Most of the main...
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    thinking on an invasion of France and Belgium, which began on 4 August 1914. Schlieffen was Chief of the General Staff of the German Army from 1891 to...
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    August 1914 until the end of World War I on 11 November 1918, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg was under full occupation by the German Empire. The German government...
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  • eventuality of war. August 4 August – German invasion with attendant atrocities: beginning of Belgian involvement in World War I. 5 to 16 August – Battle of Liège...
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    1914, when King George V declared war after the expiry of an ultimatum to the German Empire. The official explanation focused on protecting Belgium as...
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    Battle of the Ardennes took place during the First World War fought on the frontiers of France, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg from 21 to 23 August 1914. The...
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    The siege of Namur (French: Siège de Namur) was a battle between Belgian and German forces around the fortified city of Namur during the First World War...
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    example of propaganda and psychological warfare. By the middle of September 1914, the Belgian government had issued three reports on German war crimes...
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    Gotthard Heinrici (category Colonel generals of the German Army (Wehrmacht))
    World War I, Heinrici fought in the German invasion of Belgium and earned the Iron Cross 2nd Class in September 1914. Heinrici's division was then transferred...
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    First Battle of Ypres (French: Première Bataille des Flandres, German: Erste Flandernschlacht, 19 October – 22 November 1914) was a battle of the First World...
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