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Belgian Americans are Americans who can trace their ancestry to people from Belgium who immigrated to the United States. While the first natives of the then-Southern Netherlands arrived in America in the 17th century, most Belgian immigrants arrived during the 19th and the 20th centuries.
This is a list of notable Belgian-Americans.However, the term Belgian-American is here used in a very liberal way: It includes not only Americans of Belgian descent and Belgians who took American citizenship (Belgian-Americans in the strictest sense), but also Americans born in Belgium, Belgians born in the USA, Belgians who lived for a considerable period of time in the United States and vice ...
Pages in category "Belgian emigrants to the United States" The following 188 pages are in this category, out of 188 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge reminds us that appeasing tyrants never works. The U.S. must continue to stand strong against tyrants like Vladimir Putin to keep America safe.
As part of this (ultimately failed) colonial project, many Belgians settled in what would become the United States during the 1600s. During the American Revolutionary War many of the aforementioned Belgian settlers in North America fought in the Continental Army. In 1830, Belgium declared its independence from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Belgium was expected on Friday to allow hairdressers to reopen mid-month in a slight easing of COVID-19 restrictions as serious infections slow in a country with one of the world's highest per ...
Lyrics to the song Tins d' eraler / Tehng de raalie "Time to go home" written from memory by a Walloon speaker in Wisconsin. Wisconsin Walloon is a dialect of the Walloon language brought to Wisconsin by immigrants from Wallonia, the largely French-speaking region of Belgium.
The return of Trump’s always-on, Twitter-driven news cycle might play well, but it’s going to be a nightmare for an American public whose sense of cultural context is already in tatters.