By nightfall of Whit Sunday, 12 May, seven panzer divisions stood on the east bank of the Meuse. |
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The crown prince of Saxony was given the new Meuse Army, comprising three of First Army's corps and two cavalry divisions. |
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Any peasant might teach our economist that this fact arises from the greater productiveness of the land watered by the Rhine and the Meuse. |
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The French would defend the other side of the Meuse, exploiting the natural obstacles offered by the river and the high ground of the left bank. |
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In 1877 the city was connected with the southern Netherlands by a railroad crossing the Meuse River. |
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This presentation was followed by a boat trip along the River Meuse to view the different lighting installations of Liege by night. |
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You will then follow the towpath down to Wireux where you will cross the Meuse for a visit of the ancient Molhain Collegial Abbey. |
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Next the river Meuse approaches Andenne then Huy with its citadel and collegian church. |
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The Canal de L'Est is divided into two parts. Its northern section is partly the canalized River Meuse. |
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Panzer Army encircles Bastogne, and resolutely advances in the direction of the River Meuse and its bridges. |
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The war was developing in the Meuse as early as August 1914, circumnavigating then isolating the fortified town of Verdun. |
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When more German tanks crossed the Meuse between Givet and Namur, the breach of the French front was 60 miles wide. |
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In this context they refer to the pollution of the Rhine and Meuse, which are also used for the production of drinking water in the Netherlands. |
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The landscape has been modified by the rivers Rhine and Meuse in the ice age, when huge glaciers in the Veluwe area forced them westward. |
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The Pays de Herve? this land is enclosed by the rivers Vesdre and Meuse, at the heart of the Euregio Meuse-Rhine and the Aachen-Liège-Maastricht triangle. |
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From a regional point of view, Niderlant was also the area between the Meuse and the lower Rhine in the late Middle Ages. |
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The Netherlands is divided into north and south parts by the Rhine, the Waal, its main tributary branch, and the Meuse. |
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To the north of the Sambre and Meuse valley lies the Central Belgian plateau, which is characterized by intensive agriculture. |
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In ancient times, the Sambre and Meuse valley was an important industrial area in the Roman Empire. |
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It carries out the management of 31 ports along the Meuse and the Albert Canal. |
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It is made of metal with a total length of 523 m aprons 7 isostatic spans of 40 m span on grade 1 and hyperstatic deck 243 m on the Meuse. |
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The rivers Rhine, Meuse, and Scheldt give waterway access into the heart of Western Europe, including the highly industrialized Ruhr. |
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At this point, West Francia was composed of Neustria in the west and in the east by Francia proper, the region between the Meuse and the Seine. |
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The division of lands was largely based on the Meuse, Scheldt, Saone and Rhone rivers. |
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International commissions were created many years ago in Europe, for instance for the Rhine, Meuse, Scheldt, Moselle and Sarre rivers, and for Lake Geneva. |
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How many minutes would you be willing to lose so the high-speed Strasbourg-Paris bullet train can stop twice to allow company managers from the Meuse to quickly reach the capital? |
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The photos in the orangery along the Meuse show how the way of bringing the trees in and taking them out changed since the 1940-45 war and how the cord hanging from the vaults was used for repotting. |
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A day to remberber... The next day you can go for a boat trip on the Meuse, take a walk or go biking along the towpath, visit a castle, go shopping in the city... Plenty of options for you to choose from. |
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The city of Namur, in Belgium, which formerly suffered from the overflowing of the Sambre and Meuse rivers, has been celebrated for its stilt walkers for many centuries. |
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A German attack northwest of the town Le Quesnoy is fended off, while French troops are in pursuit of German troops on the Serre-Oise salient. American troops capture Belleu Woods, on the east bank of the Meuse river. |
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In the 17th century, when the discovery of the sea route to the Indies gave an enormous impetus to Dutch commerce and shipping, Rotterdam expanded its harbours and accommodations along the Meuse. |
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As early as January 1916, French airmen had detected German preparations for the Verdun offensive, and on February 11, 1916 a French intelligence officer discovered a buildup of German troops on the right bank of the Meuse. |
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The Citadelle, built on a plateau overlooking the Meuse valley, owes its name to the abandoned military fortification which was its predecessor on this magnificent spot. |
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Escaut et Meuse is the target of a public offer project, inciting family shareholders of this company to sell their shares to UAP, Eurafrance and shareholders of Gaz et Eaux, before Gaz et Eaux absorbs Escaut et Meuse. |
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Austrasia was centered on the Middle Rhine, including the basins of the Moselle and Main, and the Meuse rivers. |
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Afterwards, the Thames and Scheldt flowed through the gap into the English Channel, but the Meuse and Rhine still flowed northwards. |
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From 1421 to 1904, the Meuse and Waal merged further upstream at Gorinchem to form Merwede. |
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An International Commission on the Meuse has the responsibility of the implementation of the treaty. |
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The mean annual discharge rate of the Meuse has been relatively stable over the last few thousand years. |
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They predict that winter flooding of the Meuse may become a recurring problem in the coming decades. |
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On 11 May, Gamelin had ordered reserve divisions to begin reinforcing the Meuse sector. |
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The German advance forces reached the Meuse line late in the afternoon of 12 May. |
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Corap needed the cavalry divisions to reinforce the defences on the Meuse, because some of the infantry had not arrived. |
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The Ninth Army had been bypassed on both flanks and was ordered to retreat from the Meuse to a line from Charleroi to Rethel. |
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It fell above all on Northern Frankland, and soon the Scheldt, the Meuse, and the Rhine were full of pirate squadrons. |
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Manstein's plan suggested that Panzer divisions should attack through the Ardennes, then establish bridgeheads on the Meuse River and rapidly drive to the English Channel. |
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Rotterdam is the largest port in Europe, with the rivers Meuse and Rhine providing excellent access to the hinterland upstream reaching to Basel, Switzerland and into France. |
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The 3rd Army crossed the Meuse and attacked the French right flank and on 23 August, the Fifth Army began a retirement southwards to avoid encirclement. |
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The southernmost army involved in the move forward into Belgium was the French Ninth Army, which had to cover the Meuse sector between Namur to the north of Sedan. |
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The Seine, Thames, Meuse, Scheldt and Rhine rivers joined and flowed west along the English Channel as a wide slow river before eventually reaching the Atlantic Ocean. |
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Later there were raids of Ghent, Kortrijk, Tournai, Leuven and the areas around the Meuse river, the Rhine, the Rupel river and the tributaries of those rivers. |
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Frederick Henry now invaded the Meuse valley with 30,000 troops. |
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The French success in Belgium contributed to the disaster on the Meuse at Sedan and on 16 May, Blanchard was ordered to retreat to the French border. |
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The Cretaceous sea reptile Mosasaur is named after the river Meuse. |
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Blown glass objects, such as the drinking vessels that imitated the shape of the animal horn were produced in the Rhine and Meuse valleys, as well as in Belgium. |
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The map of the basin area of Meuse was joined to the text of the treaty. |
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The oldest were in the Scheldt and Meuse areas, with many towns in what's now the Netherlands being much younger and only dating from the 13th century. |
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The hydrological distribution of the Meuse changed during the later Middle Ages, when a major flood forced it to shift its main course northwards towards the river Merwede. |
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Thereafter, the Meuse split near Heusden into two main distributaries, one flowing north to join the Merwede, and one flowing directly to the sea. |
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Since then the reunited Rhine and Meuse waters reach the North Sea either at this site or, during times of lower discharges of the Rhine, at Hoek van Holland. |
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