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Antwerp's development as a fortified city is documented between the 10th and the 20th century. The fortifications were developed in six phases: First fortification 980 AD: first fortified wall and ditch, improved around 1100. Second fortification 12th century: first vlieten and ruien (city canals) were dug.
Coordinates: 50°50′N 4°00′E. The Antwerp forts. The fortified position of Liège. The National Redoubt ( French: Réduit national, Dutch: Stelling van Antwerpen) was a strategic defensive belt of fortifications built in Belgium. The National redoubt was the infrastructural cornerstone of Belgian defensive strategy from 1890–1940.
The Siege of Antwerp (Dutch: Beleg van Antwerpen, French: Siège d'Anvers, German: Belagerung von Antwerpen) was an engagement between the German and the Belgian, British and French armies around the fortified city of Antwerp during the First World War. German troops besieged a garrison of Belgian fortress troops, the Belgian field army and the ...
The Atlantic Wall & Air War Bunker Museum Antwerp is a military war museum in Park den Brandt, Wilrijk (Antwerp) in Belgium which preserves fortifications of the Atlantic Wall dating to the Second World War. In the Park a total of 8 bunkers are to be found.
The Belgian government ordered a general mobilisation on 31 July 1914. [9] During the early stages of the 1914 campaign, the military had a strength of nearly 220,000 men: 120,500 regular soldiers. [6] 65,000 reservists assigned to fortress units [6] 46,000 militia of the Garde Civique [6] 18,000 new volunteers. [6]
Fortress Antwerp was a defensive belt of fortifications built in two rings to defend Antwerp. Antwerp was designated to be a national redoubt (French: Réduit national or Dutch: De versterkte stelling Antwerpen) in case Belgium was attacked. It was built in the period 1859–1914. In total it encompasses a belt of fortifications of 95 km.
Henri Alexis Brialmont. Henri-Alexis Brialmont (Venlo, 25 May 1821 – Brussels, 21 July 1903), nicknamed The Belgian Vauban after the French military architect, was a Belgian army officer, politician and writer of the 19th century, best known as a military architect and designer of fortifications. [1] Brialmont qualified as an officer in the ...
Medieval fortification refers to medieval military methods that cover the development of fortification construction and use in Europe, roughly from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the Renaissance. During this millennium, fortifications changed warfare, and in turn were modified to suit new tactics, weapons and siege techniques.