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The Battle of the Yser (French: Bataille de l'Yser, Dutch: Slag om de IJzer) was a battle of the First World War that took place in October 1914 between the towns of Nieuwpoort and Diksmuide, along a 35 km (22 mi) stretch of the Yser River and the Yperlee Canal, in Belgium. [4]
A Belgian soldier on the Yser Front in 1918. The front was held uniquely by Belgian forces, which numbered around 221,000 men by September 1918. [2] Throughout the war, the Belgian Army was supplemented by escapees of military age (évadés) from German-occupied Belgium. [4] Altogether, around 20,000 Belgian soldiers died on the Yser during the ...
The Battle of the Yser took place in October 1914 along a 35 km (22 mi) long stretch of the Yser river and Yperlee canal in Belgium. [44] On 15 October c. 50,000 Belgian troops ended their retreat from Antwerp and took post between Nieuwpoort and French Fusiliers Marins at Diksmuide, which marked the end of the "Race to the Sea".
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This list of military engagements of World War I covers terrestrial, maritime, and aerial conflicts, including campaigns, operations, defensive positions, and sieges. . Campaigns generally refer to broader strategic operations conducted over a large bit of territory and over a long period o
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. The Belgian Army held the area until late in 1918, when it participated in the Allied liberation of ...
Native soldiers from the Belgian Congo ford a river during the African Campaign, 1916 See also: Force Publique § World War I , and Tabora Offensive German presence in Africa posed no direct threat to the Belgian Congo ; however, in 1914 a German gunboat sank a number of Belgian vessels on Lake Tanganyika . [ 38 ]
War As It Really Is is a 1916 American documentary war film shot, edited and distributed by Donald C. Thompson.The seven-reel film exposed American audiences to some of the most authentic sights and first-hand accounts of World War I before the United States entered the war.