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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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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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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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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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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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4025:Arrest of a Suspect in Sarajevo
3225:Lithuanian Wars of Independence
1822:– via Archive Foundation.
963:View of Dinant from the Citadel
530:German occupation of Luxembourg
3848:Austria-Hungary against Serbia
3707:Deportations from East Prussia
3504:1915 typhus epidemic in Serbia
1917:Combat de Dinant (French site)
1867:The Campaign of the Marne 1914
972:on 23 August, in a thick fog,
878:Helmuth von Moltke the Younger
249:
218:1,100â1,200 killed and wounded
1:
3759:Ukrainian Canadian internment
1759:Essen, L. J. van der (1917).
1565:Francois & Vesentini 2000
226:
3914:SazonovâPalĂ©ologue Agreement
3213:Estonian War of Independence
2888:Southern Palestine offensive
1178:Casualties and commemoration
525:German occupation of Belgium
328:Battle of the Frontiers 1914
3868:USA against Austria-Hungary
3267:Turkish War of Independence
3219:Latvian War of Independence
2951:Treaty of Bucharest of 1918
2542:Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo
830:the French had climbed the
565:British Expeditionary Force
232:Belgian civilians massacred
4664:
4488:MĂ©morial Charles-de-Gaulle
4433:Rally of the French People
4396:1965 presidential election
4120:Names and terms of address
3951:Treaties of Brest-Litovsk
3499:1899â1923 cholera pandemic
2966:Second Battle of the Marne
2853:Second battle of the Aisne
2722:Second Battle of Champagne
2563:German invasion of Belgium
1789:. New York: Random House.
951:
874:Chief of the General Staff
861:Dinant from Tourist Office
711:, on the east bank of the
557:German invasion of Belgium
29:
4567:
4110:
4057:
3732:Assyrian genocide (Sayfo)
3261:Irish War of Independence
3011:Armistice of Villa Giusti
2996:Battle of Vittorio Veneto
2608:First Battle of the Marne
1974:
1240:and the French had about
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4493:Adenauer-de Gaulle Prize
3884:Constantinople Agreement
3177:ArmenianâAzerbaijani War
3040:Co-belligerent conflicts
3016:Second Romanian campaign
2986:Third Transjordan attack
2697:GorliceâTarnĂłw offensive
2603:Battle of Grand Couronné
1022:Leffe was overlooked by
896:Night raid, 21/22 August
837:Général de Corps d'Armée
677:Occupation of Luxembourg
623:). German troops of the
221:4,275 killed and wounded
30:Not to be confused with
3947:Modus vivendi of Acroma
3899:BulgariaâGermany treaty
3207:Greater Poland Uprising
3107:National Protection War
2991:MeuseâArgonne offensive
2941:German spring offensive
2936:Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
2712:Siege of Novogeorgievsk
2687:Second Battle of Artois
2568:Battle of the Frontiers
1765:. London: T. F. Unwin.
1742:War, Culture and Memory
1597:Horne & Kramer 2001
1582:Horne & Kramer 2001
1553:Horne & Kramer 2001
1541:Horne & Kramer 2001
1529:Horne & Kramer 2001
1517:Horne & Kramer 2001
1481:Horne & Kramer 2001
1345:Horne & Kramer 2001
1200:provoked the flight of
1187:A plaque showing where
783:Battalion and the 13th
53:Battle of the Frontiers
18:Battle of Dinant (1914)
4536:Operation Resurrection
4374:Algiers putsch of 1961
4275:Provisional Government
4270:Brazzaville Conference
4248:Empire Defense Council
3972:Paris Peace Conference
3960:UkraineâCentral Powers
3754:Massacres of Albanians
3722:Late Ottoman genocides
3529:Bulgarian occupations
3237:Third Anglo-Afghan War
3201:HungarianâRomanian War
3026:Naval Victory Bulletin
3021:Armistice with Germany
2971:Hundred Days Offensive
2898:Battle of La Malmaison
2848:Second battle of Arras
2815:Battle of Transylvania
2669:Second Battle of Ypres
2537:Sarajevo assassination
2426:South African Republic
1293:
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179:Commanders and leaders
4498:Fifth French Republic
4265:Casablanca Conference
3982:Treaty of St. Germain
3955:RussiaâCentral Powers
3909:SykesâPicot Agreement
3737:Pontic Greek genocide
3712:Destruction of Kalisz
3688:Eastern Mediterranean
3249:PolishâLithuanian War
3031:Armistice of Belgrade
3001:Armistice of Salonica
2931:Operation Faustschlag
2878:Third Battle of Oituz
2800:Baranovichi offensive
2768:Lake Naroch offensive
2742:Battle of Robat Karim
2717:VistulaâBug offensive
2692:Battles of the Isonzo
2623:First Battle of Ypres
1699:Brose, E. D. (2001).
1212:were burned down and
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983:23rd Reserve Division
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213:Casualties and losses
4468:Vive le Québec libre
4411:Later life and death
4280:Liberation of France
4214:Battle of Montcornet
4209:4th Armored Division
3977:Treaty of Versailles
3693:Mount Lebanon famine
3608:in the United States
3576:Russian occupations
3290:TurkishâArmenian War
3231:PolishâUkrainian War
3171:UkrainianâSoviet War
3118:Central Asian Revolt
2908:Armistice of FocÈani
2638:Battle of Sarikamish
2588:Battle of Tannenberg
1984:Military engagements
1846:Spears, E. (1999) .
1614:, pp. 166, 168.
1220:, which led to the
1107:seven were men over
948:Massacres, 23 August
771:Henry Victor Deligny
689:5th Cavalry Division
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185:Henry Victor Deligny
4628:Mass murder in 1914
4541:Order of Liberation
4219:Battle of Abbeville
4044:They shall not pass
3967:Treaty of Bucharest
3924:Treaty of Bucharest
3863:USA against Germany
3840:Declarations of war
3544:German occupations
3457:British casualties
3316:SovietâGeorgian War
3243:Egyptian Revolution
3183:Armeno-Georgian War
3047:Somaliland campaign
3006:Armistice of Mudros
2883:Battle of Caporetto
2873:Battle of MÄrÄÈeÈti
2843:Zimmermann telegram
2838:February Revolution
2783:Battle of the Somme
2707:Bug-Narew Offensive
2682:Battle of Gallipoli
2674:Sinking of the RMS
2466:Scramble for Africa
2460:Franco-Prussian War
2116:Sinai and Palestine
1827:Lipkes, J. (2007).
1785:Herwig, H. (2009).
1740:Emsley, C. (2003).
1507:, pp. 164â165.
1471:, pp. 199â200.
1386:, pp. 190â191.
1111:women or girls and
1028:Bouvignes-sur-Meuse
999:Général de division
767:Général de division
621:German military law
569:Battle of Charleroi
514:Associated articles
112: /
49:Battle of Charleroi
4633:August 1914 events
4004:Treaty of Lausanne
3919:Paris Economy Pact
3853:UK against Germany
3783:Entry into the war
3749:Urkun (Kyrgyzstan)
3468:Ottoman casualties
3278:Franco-Turkish War
3158:Post-War conflicts
3142:Russian Revolution
3124:Invasion of Darfur
3089:Kelantan rebellion
3077:Kurdish rebellions
3053:Mexican Revolution
2893:October Revolution
2858:Kerensky offensive
2833:Capture of Baghdad
2810:Monastir offensive
2795:Brusilov offensive
2633:Battle of Kolubara
2472:Russo-Japanese War
1865:Tyng, S. (2007) .
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882:Karl Ludwig d'Elsa
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4648:Charles de Gaulle
4618:Conflicts in 1914
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4531:French Resistance
4456:Appeal of 18 June
4426:political parties
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3894:Damascus Protocol
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3727:Armenian genocide
3684:Allied blockades
3656:Belgian refugees
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3284:Greco-Turkish War
3272:Anglo-Turkish War
3255:PolishâSoviet War
3189:German Revolution
3165:Russian Civil War
3148:Finnish Civil War
2981:Battle of Megiddo
2956:Battle of Goychay
2903:Battle of Cambrai
2863:Battle of MÄrÄÈti
2778:Battle of Jutland
2758:Erzurum offensive
2613:Siege of PrzemyĆl
2593:Siege of Tsingtao
2578:Battle of Galicia
2508:Second Balkan War
2496:Italo-Turkish War
2453:Pre-War conflicts
2439:
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2329:Portuguese Empire
2245:
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2207:German New Guinea
2189:Asian and Pacific
1896:(in French) (7).
1876:978-1-59416-042-4
1857:978-0-304-35228-9
1838:978-3-515-09159-6
1819:978-0-300-08975-2
1796:978-1-4000-6671-1
1751:978-0-7492-9611-7
1732:978-0-674-01880-8
1710:978-0-19-517945-3
1584:, pp. 50â51.
1567:, pp. 51â82.
1555:, pp. 49â50.
1519:, pp. 46â47.
1261:. On 6 May 2001,
1255:Charles de Gaulle
1236:killed and about
1224:establishing the
1202:2,500 inhabitants
1189:Charles de Gaulle
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659:Citadel of Dinant
634:German war crimes
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2773:Battle of Asiago
2763:Battle of Verdun
2727:Kosovo offensive
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3397:Conscription
3361:Cryptography
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2732:Siege of Kut
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47:Part of the
4332:legislative
4231:Free France
4144:Early life
4138:Before WWII
3660:Netherlands
3637:Switzerland
3518:Occupations
3509:Spanish flu
3286:(1919â1922)
3280:(1918â1921)
3274:(1918â1923)
3263:(1919â1921)
3257:(1919â1921)
3251:(1919â1920)
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3197:(1918â1920)
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3173:(1917â1921)
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3114:(1916-1918)
3112:Arab Revolt
3103:(1915â1917)
3097:(1915â1917)
3085:(1914-1917)
3079:(1914â1917)
3073:(1914â1921)
3067:(1913â1920)
3055:(1910â1920)
3049:(1900â1920)
2547:July Crisis
2468:(1880â1914)
2131:Mesopotamia
2009:Home fronts
1968:World War I
1678:Emsley 2003
1666:Herwig 2009
1624:Spears 1999
1612:Herwig 2009
1505:Herwig 2009
1493:Herwig 2009
1430:Spears 1999
1357:Lipkes 2007
1320:Herwig 2009
1228:chaired by
1109:70, 38 were
1105:77 victims,
786:Garde-JĂ€ger
728:) arrived.
671:6â14 August
629:674 unarmed
119: /
51:during the
4592:Categories
4481:depictions
4479:Legacy and
4449:statements
4356:Presidency
4344:referendum
4148:Birthplace
3877:Agreements
3677:War crimes
3553:Luxembourg
3446:Casualties
2324:Montenegro
2159:South West
2039:Technology
2029:Propaganda
2019:Opposition
1776:18 January
1687:References
1469:Brose 2001
1454:Essen 1917
1442:Essen 1917
1418:Essen 1917
1384:Brose 2001
1369:Brose 2001
1214:400 people
1172:19 people,
1123:in Neffe;
1039:5:30 p.m.,
884:) and the
832:408 stairs
828:5:00 p.m.,
818:2:00 p.m.,
795:11:45 a.m.
775:6:00 a.m.,
644:Background
627:massacred
615:(civilian
561:Fifth Army
495:Langemarck
478:Buggenhout
230: 674
202:Fifth Army
4307:1945â1958
4236:Campaigns
4199:Battle of
3774:Diplomacy
3481:Olympians
3404:Australia
3371:Logistics
3304:Vlora War
3233:(1918â19)
3209:(1918â19)
3203:(1918â19)
3191:(1918â19)
3138:(1916â17)
3120:(1916â17)
3071:Zaian War
3061:(1914â15)
2788:first day
2676:Lusitania
2504:(1912â13)
2498:(1911â12)
2486:(1908â09)
2480:(1905â06)
2462:(1870â71)
2251:Principal
2111:Gallipoli
2014:Memorials
1999:Geography
1989:Aftermath
1902:0769-4504
1771:800487618
1636:Tyng 2007
1401:Tyng 2007
1305:Footnotes
1234:1,275 men
1150:24 August
1145:Aftermath
1117:14 (seven
1091:acoustics
1077:5:00 p.m.
974:57 German
970:4:50 a.m.
888:(General
886:XIX Corps
805:1:30 p.m.
732:15 August
500:Gheluvelt
490:1st Ypres
373:Charleroi
366:Rossignol
274:, in the
4577:Category
4503:Gaullism
4470: !"
4163:5th Army
4129:Life and
4062:Category
3649:Refugees
3615:Italians
3604:Germans
3564:Ober Ost
3344:Aviation
2445:Timeline
2416:Bulgaria
2197:Tsingtao
2174:Togoland
2121:Caucasus
2056:European
2048:Theatres
1885:Journals
1721:(2005).
1059:137 men,
928:â
922:kolossal
722:3rd Army
691:and the
625:3rd Army
595:reprisal
563:and the
361:Ardennes
351:Lorraine
341:Mulhouse
279:province
207:3rd Army
86:Location
4524:Related
3800:Germany
3700:Germany
3628:Germany
3548:Belgium
3533:Albania
3492:Disease
3472:Sports
3424:Ireland
3337:Warfare
3330:Aspects
2525:Origins
2518:Prelude
2421:Senussi
2401:Germany
2396:Leaders
2334:Romania
2275:Belgium
2270:Leaders
2169:Kamerun
2151:African
2086:Romania
2064:Balkans
1979:Outline
1129:43 were
1113:15 were
994:X Corps
937:19 dead
791:citadel
758:I Corps
717:Hussars
666:Prelude
653:by the
599:19 dead
551:in the
468:Antwerp
443:Battles
276:Belgian
107:04°55âČE
104:50°16âČN
95:Belgium
55:in the
4623:Dinant
4401:May 68
4201:France
4155:Family
4131:career
3820:Russia
3795:France
3623:Canada
3538:Serbia
3409:Canada
3366:Horses
3318:(1921)
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3292:(1920)
3245:(1919)
3239:(1919)
3185:(1918)
3150:(1918)
3144:(1917)
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3091:(1915)
2510:(1913)
2492:(1911)
2474:(1905)
2431:Darfur
2356:Serbia
2339:Russia
2302:Greece
2290:France
2280:Brazil
2126:Persia
2069:Serbia
1900:
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1259:fibula
1087:echoes
1055:19 men
1042:27 men
1017:(1918)
701:Dinant
657:stone
549:Dinant
458:Dinant
448:Haelen
356:Dinant
346:Haelen
257:Dinant
170:
159:France
156:
132:Result
91:Dinant
4285:Paris
4017:Other
3810:Japan
3805:Italy
3632:camps
3476:Rugby
2312:Japan
2307:Italy
2285:China
2179:North
1693:Books
1273:Notes
1024:Leffe
823:JĂ€ger
812:JĂ€ger
800:JĂ€ger
749:JĂ€ger
713:Meuse
705:LiĂšge
697:Givet
683:JĂ€ger
463:Namur
453:LiĂšge
283:Namur
272:Meuse
4558:Ngol
4543:and
4258:CFLN
3597:POWs
2923:1918
2825:1917
2751:1916
2652:1915
2556:1914
2361:Siam
2164:East
1898:ISSN
1871:ISBN
1852:ISBN
1833:ISBN
1814:ISBN
1791:ISBN
1778:2014
1767:OCLC
1746:ISBN
1727:ISBN
1705:ISBN
939:and
709:Mons
707:and
601:and
574:and
543:The
485:Yser
473:Nete
378:Mons
78:Date
4253:CNF
968:At
916:sic
281:of
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