Battle of the Lys and the Escaut information

The Battle of the Lys and the Escaut was the third and last phase of the Second Battle of Belgium (French: 2ème Bataille de Belgique) or the Ypres-Lys...

The Battle of the Lys may refer to: Battle of the Lys (1918), part of the German Spring Offensive Battle of the Lys and the Escaut (1918), part of the...

fought in the Battle of the Lys and the Escaut and reached the outskirts of Ghent by 11 November. The Final Offensive had been very costly for the Belgian...

Reserve Division. The division participated in the Battle of the Lys and the Escaut in October and November. Under the terms of the armistice of 11 November...

The Scheldt (/ˈʃɛlt, ˈskɛlt/ SHELT, SKELT; French: Escaut [ɛsko]; Dutch: Schelde [ˈsxɛldə] ) is a 435-kilometre-long (270 mi) river that flows through...

The Battle of the Scheldt in World War II was a series of military operations to open up the Scheldt river between Antwerp and the North Sea for shipping...

the subsidiary battles of the Lys and of the Escaut), the Serre (20 October), Valenciennes (1 November), the Sambre (including the Second Battle of Guise)...

of the Seventh Army. In the last weeks of the war, he received command of the French Army in Belgium with which he fought the Battle of the Lys and the...

This is a list of battles during the First World War in which the Canadian Expeditionary Force participated. Gallipoli Campaign, 1915–16 Macedonian front...

was also to capture the Escaut (Scheldt) Canal, to support the Fourth Army during the Battle of St. Quentin Canal. Construction of the Canal du Nord began...

Khan Baghdadi, Mesopotamia 1914–18. Archangel 1919 The Second World War: Defence of Escaut, Siege of Calais, Cassel, Ypres-Comines Canal, Normandy Landing...

37th and 91st – to the French Army of Belgium, at Foch's request, to give impetus to the drive to cross the Scheldt (Escaut) southwest of Ghent. A general...

Charge of Burkel 20 October to 11 November – Battle of the Lys and the Escaut 5 to 7 November – Passage of the Grande Honnelle 11 November – Armistice of 11...

The Fortified Sector of the Escaut (Secteur Fortifié de l'Escaut), also known as the Fortified Sector of the Schelde, was the French military organization...

along the Scheldt (Escaut) to Antwerp, which became the Escaut Plan/Plan E. The third possibility was along field defences of the French border from Luxembourg...

The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0192805508. Murland, Jerry (2016). Battle for the Escaut 1940: The France...

Nudant also participated in the Battle of the Somme during his service with the 33rd Corps. He was then placed at the head of the 7th Army Corps until 1923...

Escaut, Forêts, Jemmape, Lys, Ourte, Meuse-Inférieure, and Sambre-et-Meuse. This annexation was confirmed by the Treaty of Campo Formio, by which the...

The Battle of Hannut was a Second World War battle fought during the Battle of Belgium which took place between 12 and 14 May 1940 at Hannut in Belgium...

near Honnecourt-sur-Escaut. Guiche placed his troops in a strong position but they proved no match for the veteran Army of Flanders and both wings collapsed...