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windows and threw bombs into the cellars. To cross the Place d'Armes, which was visible to the French across the river, the
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20 August, the infantry divisions of the 3rd Army closed up to the cavalry divisions east of Dinant. By 21 August, four of the six divisions of the German 3rd Army intended to cross the Meuse, had arrived but the heavy artillery was a day away, yet an attack by frontal assault had been ordered by the German
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taken to the east bank and shot there. German attacks between Houx and Dinant were repulsed but the
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Germans on the hills on the east bank and French patrols. Some German detachments conveyed in motor vehicles armed with machine-guns, attacked houses in the neighbourhood of Dinant and several inhabitants of Houx were killed and the village sacked and burnt down. On
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Regiment 101 and the 3rd Pioneer Company entered Les Rivages during the afternoon, to build a pontoon bridge over the Meuse. The right bank narrows to a defile between the escarpment and the river, with only a road and one line of dwellings. The area was particularly exposed to French fire
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and was an important strategic crossing on the Meuse, where the river flows through a southânorth gorge. Three roads and a path converged on the town from the east, over an escarpment and down into the town, along which an attack from the east would come. The wooded ridge on the east bank was topped
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On 24 August, the area of Dinant south of the bridge, which had not been attacked on 23 August, was systematically burned down by the
Germans. Dinant was looted and German troops destroyed public and historic buildings, including the collegial church and the town hall. When IR 178 crossed the Meuse
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road and established a blocking position east of Onhaye. With the 51st
Reserve Division to the north, the 8th Infantry Brigade restricted the Germans to a bridgehead from Onhaye to Anhée. Next day the French I Corps arrived from the Sambre to Dinant and contained the 3rd Army in bridgeheads on the
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were shot by IR 108 in the rue des
Tanneries. The German troops barricaded streets with furniture and soldiers from IR 182 captured a man on suspicion of firing at them, although he was unarmed and tied him to a barricade as a human shield. When German artillery mistakenly bombarded the force, the
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overlooking the town and the Meuse bridge, 100 m (330 ft) below. In 1914 there was a ribbon of streets about 4 km (2.5 mi) long on the east bank, a few hundred metres wide. Before the battle, the Mayor of Dinant urged the population to not take part in the fighting and forbade
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Germans may have fired at each other. Rather than consider that the small-arms fire may have come from the French troops on the west bank, the German soldiers blamed Belgian civilians, killing seven and burning down 15 to 20 houses in
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were killed and south of Dinant at HastiĂšre-par-delĂ and HastiĂšre-Lavaux, civilians were caught between
Infantry Regiment 104 and Infantry Regiment 133 as they tried to cross the Meuse and French troops on the west bank. The Germans claimed that the civilians helped the French and
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and occupied the bridge and houses nearby. Two battalions of the 148th Infantry Regiment in Leffe and St Nicolas also retired to the west bank. In Dinant a civilian had been killed, one had been wounded and the hospital and houses on the east bank had been hit by shells.
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that the hostages would be shot if the firing continued. The magistrate returned having been shot and wounded by the Germans on the way and said that only French soldiers were firing. After more gunfire, civilians were lined up against a wall and shot. Of the
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crossed the bridge in pursuit, as Germans on the high ground on the east bank and in the citadel engaged the French at the end of the bridge with machine-gun fire. The French retired to the slopes on the west bank, where there was good cover and towards
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on the west bank. Three civilians were shot at the riverbank where they had fled from the soldiers, who later admitted that they had no idea if the victims had taken up arms. The 3rd Company of IR 178 was ordered to clear Leffe of
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artillery batteries began to bombard Dinant. Most of the 40th Division was sent south to Givet and Fumay, thence to cross the Meuse and attack the right flank of the Fifth Army, which reduced the attack on Dinant to XII Corps. The
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Belgian civilians while fighting French troops, who were still dug in along the west bank and on the east end of the bridge. The massacre was another reprisal against anticipated civilian resistance and was the largest of the
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Members of the reconnaissance force claimed later that civilians had attacked them and civilians thought that it had been an attack by drunken soldiers. A German soldier wrote later that they had been ordered to
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the Meuse were loopholed to command the riverbanks, bridge and the approach roads. On the east bank the French built barricades and put up barbed-wire in front of the bridge-piers and near the church. From
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had patrols in the town, which may have engaged the Germans in the rue St Jacques and probably fired on the Germans at the river. In the aftermath the Germans took Dinant to be full of hostile civilians.
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on both sides of the river, while Belgian civilians said the bullets came from the French on the west bank. Some inhabitants of Dinant cheered the success of the French and the cliffs nearby created
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Abbey and its brewery and as Infantry Regiment 178 (IR 178) and Infantry Regiment 103 (IR 103) advanced into the area, they thought that civilians fired on them as well as the French from
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advanced through Luxembourg and entered Belgium on 10 August, with orders to advance 60 km (37 mi) north-west to Dinant and then scout the Meuse as far as the French border near
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to the citadel and retaken it. The Germans withdrew from the town and the heights with their prisoners towards the main body of the 3rd Army. During the battle, the French Cavalry Corps (
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at the ironworks were shot; the rest were taken to the Place d'Armes, being made to shout, "Long live Germany! Long live the Kaiser!" along the way. Soldiers of GR 100 separated
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contributed to the German belief that they were attacked from behind by civilians, while they were being engaged by the French from Bourdon on the west bank.
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including two ten-year-olds from HastiĂšre-par-delĂ , were killed and the village burned. By 24 August, when the German advance resumed, the French had gone.
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to reverse direction. Two battalions of the 8th Infantry Brigade were in reserve with an attached cavalry regiment and d'Esperey ordered the commander,
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but for an hour no resistance was encountered. Houses were searched, hostages were taken and 40 m (44 yd) of the bridge assembled. At about
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lined them up against a garden wall and shot them, on the orders of Lieutenant-Colonel von Kielmannsegg, the I Battalion commander.
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to rush to Dinant. The reinforcements met the remnants of the 51st Reserve Division, made a bayonet charge towards Onhaye, on the
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207:1,100 â 1,200 killed and wounded
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52:
4021:Arrest of a Suspect in Sarajevo
3221:Lithuanian Wars of Independence
1811:– via Archive Foundation.
952:View of Dinant from the Citadel
519:German occupation of Luxembourg
3844:Austria-Hungary against Serbia
3703:Deportations from East Prussia
3500:1915 typhus epidemic in Serbia
1906:Combat de Dinant (French site)
1856:The Campaign of the Marne 1914
961:on 23 August, in a thick fog,
867:Helmuth von Moltke the Younger
238:
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3755:Ukrainian Canadian internment
1748:Essen, L. J. van der (1917).
1554:Francois & Vesentini 2000
215:
3910:SazonovâPalĂ©ologue Agreement
3209:Estonian War of Independence
2877:Southern Palestine offensive
1167:Casualties and commemoration
514:German occupation of Belgium
317:Battle of the Frontiers 1914
3864:USA against Austria-Hungary
3263:Turkish War of Independence
3215:Latvian War of Independence
2940:Treaty of Bucharest of 1918
2531:Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo
819:the French had climbed the
554:British Expeditionary Force
221:Belgian civilians massacred
4660:
4484:MĂ©morial Charles-de-Gaulle
4429:Rally of the French People
4392:1965 presidential election
4116:Names and terms of address
3947:Treaties of Brest-Litovsk
3495:1899â1923 cholera pandemic
2955:Second Battle of the Marne
2842:Second battle of the Aisne
2711:Second Battle of Champagne
2552:German invasion of Belgium
1778:. New York: Random House.
940:
863:Chief of the General Staff
850:Dinant from Tourist Office
700:, on the east bank of the
546:German invasion of Belgium
18:
4563:
4106:
4053:
3728:Assyrian genocide (Sayfo)
3257:Irish War of Independence
3000:Armistice of Villa Giusti
2985:Battle of Vittorio Veneto
2597:First Battle of the Marne
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1229:and the French had about
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4489:Adenauer-de Gaulle Prize
3880:Constantinople Agreement
3173:ArmenianâAzerbaijani War
3036:Co-belligerent conflicts
3005:Second Romanian campaign
2975:Third Transjordan attack
2686:GorliceâTarnĂłw offensive
2592:Battle of Grand Couronné
1011:Leffe was overlooked by
885:Night raid, 21/22 August
826:Général de Corps d'Armée
666:Occupation of Luxembourg
612:). German troops of the
210:4,275 killed and wounded
19:Not to be confused with
3943:Modus vivendi of Acroma
3895:BulgariaâGermany treaty
3203:Greater Poland Uprising
3103:National Protection War
2980:MeuseâArgonne offensive
2930:German spring offensive
2925:Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
2701:Siege of Novogeorgievsk
2676:Second Battle of Artois
2557:Battle of the Frontiers
1754:. London: T. F. Unwin.
1731:War, Culture and Memory
1586:Horne & Kramer 2001
1571:Horne & Kramer 2001
1542:Horne & Kramer 2001
1530:Horne & Kramer 2001
1518:Horne & Kramer 2001
1506:Horne & Kramer 2001
1470:Horne & Kramer 2001
1334:Horne & Kramer 2001
1189:provoked the flight of
1176:A plaque showing where
772:Battalion and the 13th
42:Battle of the Frontiers
4532:Operation Resurrection
4370:Algiers putsch of 1961
4271:Provisional Government
4266:Brazzaville Conference
4244:Empire Defense Council
3968:Paris Peace Conference
3956:UkraineâCentral Powers
3750:Massacres of Albanians
3718:Late Ottoman genocides
3525:Bulgarian occupations
3233:Third Anglo-Afghan War
3197:HungarianâRomanian War
3015:Naval Victory Bulletin
3010:Armistice with Germany
2960:Hundred Days Offensive
2887:Battle of La Malmaison
2837:Second battle of Arras
2804:Battle of Transylvania
2658:Second Battle of Ypres
2526:Sarajevo assassination
2415:South African Republic
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4261:Casablanca Conference
3978:Treaty of St. Germain
3951:RussiaâCentral Powers
3905:SykesâPicot Agreement
3733:Pontic Greek genocide
3708:Destruction of Kalisz
3684:Eastern Mediterranean
3245:PolishâLithuanian War
3027:Armistice of Belgrade
2990:Armistice of Salonica
2920:Operation Faustschlag
2867:Third Battle of Oituz
2789:Baranovichi offensive
2757:Lake Naroch offensive
2731:Battle of Robat Karim
2706:VistulaâBug offensive
2681:Battles of the Isonzo
2612:First Battle of Ypres
1688:Brose, E. D. (2001).
1201:were burned down and
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4464:Vive le Québec libre
4407:Later life and death
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4210:Battle of Montcornet
4205:4th Armored Division
3973:Treaty of Versailles
3689:Mount Lebanon famine
3604:in the United States
3572:Russian occupations
3286:TurkishâArmenian War
3227:PolishâUkrainian War
3167:UkrainianâSoviet War
3114:Central Asian Revolt
2897:Armistice of FocÈani
2627:Battle of Sarikamish
2577:Battle of Tannenberg
1973:Military engagements
1835:Spears, E. (1999) .
1603:, pp. 166, 168.
1209:, which led to the
1096:seven were men over
937:Massacres, 23 August
760:Henry Victor Deligny
678:5th Cavalry Division
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174:Henry Victor Deligny
4624:Mass murder in 1914
4537:Order of Liberation
4215:Battle of Abbeville
4040:They shall not pass
3963:Treaty of Bucharest
3920:Treaty of Bucharest
3859:USA against Germany
3836:Declarations of war
3540:German occupations
3453:British casualties
3312:SovietâGeorgian War
3239:Egyptian Revolution
3179:Armeno-Georgian War
3043:Somaliland campaign
2995:Armistice of Mudros
2872:Battle of Caporetto
2862:Battle of MÄrÄÈeÈti
2832:Zimmermann telegram
2827:February Revolution
2772:Battle of the Somme
2696:Bug-Narew Offensive
2671:Battle of Gallipoli
2663:Sinking of the RMS
2455:Scramble for Africa
2449:Franco-Prussian War
2105:Sinai and Palestine
1816:Lipkes, J. (2007).
1774:Herwig, H. (2009).
1729:Emsley, C. (2003).
1496:, pp. 164â165.
1460:, pp. 199â200.
1375:, pp. 190â191.
1100:women or girls and
1017:Bouvignes-sur-Meuse
988:Général de division
756:Général de division
610:German military law
558:Battle of Charleroi
503:Associated articles
101: /
38:Battle of Charleroi
4629:August 1914 events
4000:Treaty of Lausanne
3915:Paris Economy Pact
3849:UK against Germany
3779:Entry into the war
3745:Urkun (Kyrgyzstan)
3464:Ottoman casualties
3274:Franco-Turkish War
3154:Post-War conflicts
3138:Russian Revolution
3120:Invasion of Darfur
3085:Kelantan rebellion
3073:Kurdish rebellions
3049:Mexican Revolution
2882:October Revolution
2847:Kerensky offensive
2822:Capture of Baghdad
2799:Monastir offensive
2784:Brusilov offensive
2622:Battle of Kolubara
2461:Russo-Japanese War
1854:Tyng, S. (2007) .
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4614:Conflicts in 1914
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4527:French Resistance
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3185:German Revolution
3161:Russian Civil War
3144:Finnish Civil War
2970:Battle of Megiddo
2945:Battle of Goychay
2892:Battle of Cambrai
2852:Battle of MÄrÄÈti
2767:Battle of Jutland
2747:Erzurum offensive
2602:Siege of PrzemyĆl
2582:Siege of Tsingtao
2567:Battle of Galicia
2497:Second Balkan War
2485:Italo-Turkish War
2442:Pre-War conflicts
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2178:Asian and Pacific
1885:(in French) (7).
1865:978-1-59416-042-4
1846:978-0-304-35228-9
1827:978-3-515-09159-6
1808:978-0-300-08975-2
1785:978-1-4000-6671-1
1740:978-0-7492-9611-7
1721:978-0-674-01880-8
1699:978-0-19-517945-3
1573:, pp. 50â51.
1556:, pp. 51â82.
1544:, pp. 49â50.
1508:, pp. 46â47.
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4360:Algerian War
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4186:World War II
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3357:Cryptography
3294:Iraqi Revolt
2721:Siege of Kut
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2191:German Samoa
2125:South Arabia
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830:André Sordet
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743:coup de main
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133:Belligerents
36:Part of the
4328:legislative
4227:Free France
4140:Early life
4134:Before WWII
3656:Netherlands
3633:Switzerland
3514:Occupations
3505:Spanish flu
3282:(1919â1922)
3276:(1918â1921)
3270:(1918â1923)
3259:(1919â1921)
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3247:(1919â1920)
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3193:(1918â1920)
3175:(1918â1920)
3169:(1917â1921)
3163:(1917â1921)
3110:(1916-1918)
3108:Arab Revolt
3099:(1915â1917)
3093:(1915â1917)
3081:(1914-1917)
3075:(1914â1917)
3069:(1914â1921)
3063:(1913â1920)
3051:(1910â1920)
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3018: [
2536:July Crisis
2457:(1880â1914)
2120:Mesopotamia
1998:Home fronts
1957:World War I
1667:Emsley 2003
1655:Herwig 2009
1613:Spears 1999
1601:Herwig 2009
1494:Herwig 2009
1482:Herwig 2009
1419:Spears 1999
1346:Lipkes 2007
1309:Herwig 2009
1217:chaired by
1098:70, 38 were
1094:77 victims,
775:Garde-JĂ€ger
717:) arrived.
660:6â14 August
618:674 unarmed
108: /
40:during the
4588:Categories
4477:depictions
4475:Legacy and
4445:statements
4352:Presidency
4340:referendum
4144:Birthplace
3873:Agreements
3673:War crimes
3549:Luxembourg
3442:Casualties
2313:Montenegro
2148:South West
2028:Technology
2018:Propaganda
2008:Opposition
1765:18 January
1676:References
1458:Brose 2001
1443:Essen 1917
1431:Essen 1917
1407:Essen 1917
1373:Brose 2001
1358:Brose 2001
1203:400 people
1161:19 people,
1112:in Neffe;
1028:5:30 p.m.,
873:) and the
821:408 stairs
817:5:00 p.m.,
807:2:00 p.m.,
784:11:45 a.m.
764:6:00 a.m.,
633:Background
616:massacred
604:(civilian
550:Fifth Army
484:Langemarck
467:Buggenhout
219: 674
191:Fifth Army
4303:1945â1958
4232:Campaigns
4195:Battle of
3770:Diplomacy
3477:Olympians
3400:Australia
3367:Logistics
3300:Vlora War
3229:(1918â19)
3205:(1918â19)
3199:(1918â19)
3187:(1918â19)
3134:(1916â17)
3116:(1916â17)
3067:Zaian War
3057:(1914â15)
2777:first day
2665:Lusitania
2493:(1912â13)
2487:(1911â12)
2475:(1908â09)
2469:(1905â06)
2451:(1870â71)
2240:Principal
2100:Gallipoli
2003:Memorials
1988:Geography
1978:Aftermath
1891:0769-4504
1760:800487618
1625:Tyng 2007
1390:Tyng 2007
1294:Footnotes
1223:1,275 men
1139:24 August
1134:Aftermath
1106:14 (seven
1080:acoustics
1066:5:00 p.m.
963:57 German
959:4:50 a.m.
877:(General
875:XIX Corps
794:1:30 p.m.
721:15 August
489:Gheluvelt
479:1st Ypres
362:Charleroi
355:Rossignol
263:, in the
4573:Category
4499:Gaullism
4466: !"
4159:5th Army
4125:Life and
4058:Category
3645:Refugees
3611:Italians
3600:Germans
3560:Ober Ost
3340:Aviation
2434:Timeline
2405:Bulgaria
2186:Tsingtao
2163:Togoland
2110:Caucasus
2045:European
2037:Theatres
1874:Journals
1710:(2005).
1048:137 men,
917:â
911:kolossal
711:3rd Army
680:and the
614:3rd Army
584:reprisal
552:and the
350:Ardennes
340:Lorraine
330:Mulhouse
268:province
196:3rd Army
75:Location
4520:Related
3796:Germany
3696:Germany
3624:Germany
3544:Belgium
3529:Albania
3488:Disease
3468:Sports
3420:Ireland
3333:Warfare
3326:Aspects
2514:Origins
2507:Prelude
2410:Senussi
2390:Germany
2385:Leaders
2323:Romania
2264:Belgium
2259:Leaders
2158:Kamerun
2140:African
2075:Romania
2053:Balkans
1968:Outline
1118:43 were
1102:15 were
983:X Corps
926:19 dead
780:citadel
747:I Corps
706:Hussars
655:Prelude
642:by the
588:19 dead
540:in the
457:Antwerp
432:Battles
265:Belgian
96:04°55âČE
93:50°16âČN
84:Belgium
44:in the
4619:Dinant
4397:May 68
4197:France
4151:Family
4127:career
3816:Russia
3791:France
3619:Canada
3534:Serbia
3405:Canada
3362:Horses
3314:(1921)
3308:(1920)
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3296:(1920)
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3181:(1918)
3146:(1918)
3140:(1917)
3128:(1916)
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3087:(1915)
2499:(1913)
2481:(1911)
2463:(1905)
2420:Darfur
2345:Serbia
2328:Russia
2291:Greece
2279:France
2269:Brazil
2115:Persia
2058:Serbia
1889:
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1248:fibula
1076:echoes
1044:19 men
1031:27 men
1006:(1918)
690:Dinant
646:stone
538:Dinant
447:Dinant
437:Haelen
345:Dinant
335:Haelen
246:Dinant
159:
148:France
145:
121:Result
80:Dinant
4281:Paris
4013:Other
3806:Japan
3801:Italy
3628:camps
3472:Rugby
3022:]
2301:Japan
2296:Italy
2274:China
2168:North
1682:Books
1262:Notes
1013:Leffe
812:JĂ€ger
801:JĂ€ger
789:JĂ€ger
738:JĂ€ger
702:Meuse
694:LiĂšge
686:Givet
672:JĂ€ger
452:Namur
442:LiĂšge
272:Namur
261:Meuse
4554:Ngol
4539:and
4254:CFLN
3593:POWs
2912:1918
2814:1917
2740:1916
2641:1915
2545:1914
2350:Siam
2153:East
1887:ISSN
1860:ISBN
1841:ISBN
1822:ISBN
1803:ISBN
1780:ISBN
1767:2014
1756:OCLC
1735:ISBN
1716:ISBN
1694:ISBN
928:and
698:Mons
696:and
590:and
563:and
532:The
474:Yser
462:Nete
367:Mons
67:Date
4249:CNF
957:At
905:sic
270:of
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