In the 1950s, anyone who wanted to cross the Upper Merwede had to rely on a ferry service. This was not very convenient in emergencies.
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In the 1950s, anyone who wanted to cross the Upper Merwede had to rely on a ferry service. This was not very convenient in emergencies.
During the final months of World War I, the British Army Troop Company Royal Engineers erected a concrete bridge over the Kemmelbeek near Ypres.
To host the 1998 World Expo, the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, spared no expense. An abandoned industrial site was bulldozed to create a new city district with expo pavilions.
When Vesuvius erupted on 24 October 79, the Roman provincial capital of Pompeii disappeared under a thick layer of ash.
In 1939, construction of a 50-kilometre defence line between Koningshooikt and Wavre, known as the KW-Line, began on behalf of the Belgian army.
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.
A severe storm lashed Belgium on Monday, 29 November 1897. Over a length of hundreds of metres, the sea dyke was washed away in the sea town Middelkerke. A drinking water reservoir did not remain unscathed either.
Bunker 'Ermitage Sud' was part of the Maginot Line, a series of fortifications erected by the French army along its border after the German attack during World War I.
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.
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