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- Siege of Antwerp, German capture of the Belgian city of Antwerp from September 28 to October 10, 1914, in the early months of World War I.
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Belgian troops from Antwerp withdrew to the Yser river, close to the French border and dug in, to begin the defence of the last unoccupied part of Belgium and fought the Battle of the Yser against the German 4th Army in October and November 1914.
- German victory
Sep 21, 2024 · Siege of Antwerp, German capture of the Belgian city of Antwerp from September 28 to October 10, 1914, in the early months of World War I. The Siege of Antwerp showed the weakness of fortifications in the face of the latest German heavy artillery, but it also revealed the Belgians’ refusal to bow to German demands and their determination to ...
- Adrian Gilbert
From the night of 27/28 September 1914 the Germans launched an artillery bombardment in the southern sector of the outer ring of forts which protected the city of Antwerp. They fired over 160 heavy guns, including four super heavy 42cm (16.2") howitzers.
The Siege of Antwerp, 1914. Following the fall of the forts at Liege in Belgium on 16 August 1914, King Albert I ordered a withdrawal of Belgium's remaining 65,000 troops to Antwerp, another fortress city (along with Namur).
At the fortified city of Antwerp, German troops besieged a garrison of Belgian fortress troops, the Belgian field army and the British Royal Naval Division. The city was ringed by forts, known as the National Redoubt and was invested to the south and east by German forces, which began a bombardment of the Belgian fortifications with heavy and ...
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On October 9, the city was bombed during a Zeppelin raid, and was occupied by the next day. Start Date: 1914-09-28. End Date: 1914-10-09. The Siege and Fall of Antwerp, Belgium is part of Germany Conquers Neutral Belgium.
The prolongation of the resistance of Antwerp, even by only two or three days, detained great German forces in the vicinity of the fortress. The sudden and audacious arrival of a fresh British division and a British cavalry division at Ghent and elsewhere baffled the cautious German staff and led it to apprehend that a large army was arriving ...
