Grebbe Line information

The Grebbe Line (Dutch: Grebbelinie) was a forward defence line of the Dutch Water Line, based on inundation. The Grebbe Line ran from the Grebbeberg...

delayed at the Grebbe line. At the beginning of 1940, Chief of Staff General Henri Winkelman redesignated the Grebbe Line the Main Defence Line, because defending...

Main Defence Line (MDL) was constructed. This second main defensive position had a northern part formed by the Grebbelinie (Grebbe line), located at the...

a more eastern main defence line, the Grebbe Line, and reserved a secondary role for the Water Line. When the Grebbe Line was broken on May 13, the field...

heart of the country and called the Grebbe Line, to be defended by the entire 2nd and 4th Army Corps. The Grebbe Line was to be defended until the bitter...

lines of defense against attack from the east, the Waterline and the Grebbe line. The failure of General Izaak H. Reijnders, leader of the Dutch General...

at 28 March 1938. Grebbe Line (Grebbelinie) IJssel Line (IJssellinie) New Hollandic Line (Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie) Defence Line of Amsterdam (Stelling...

intelligence about this novel type of airborne warfare. The Grebbe line, a north-south line some 50 kilometres (31 miles) east of the capital Amsterdam...

In May 1940 during the invasion of the Netherlands it attacked the Grebbe Line and was part of 18th Army. In June 1940 it was transferred to the OKH's...

German breakthrough at Mill, as well as the viability of the IJssel Line and Grebbe Line were proven spot on. De Jong, Lou. (1969). Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden...

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defenses against a German invasion. The Grebbe line, a defensive line built in the 1700s to protect the Dutch Water Line, ran right through the Grebbeberg (on...

the Stelling van Amsterdam, the Frisian Water Line, the IJssel Line, the Peel-Raam Line, and the Grebbe line in that country). To count as controlled, a...

frost. It was also used with the Stelling van Amsterdam, the Grebbe line and the IJssel Line. The advent of heavier artillery and especially airplanes have...

contain a German breach failed, the Dutch retreated from the Grebbe line to the New Water Line. The Dutch Army, still largely intact, surrendered in the...

center of Rhenen, which was located near the defensive Grebbelinie (Grebbe line), was destroyed during the German attack on the Netherlands in May 1940...

and the Betuwe, this hill was historically of great importance. The Grebbe Line was constructed from here in the 18th century. The hill is best known...

Netherlands, the Germans succeeded in pushing the Dutch back from the Grebbe Line, but their advance was slowed by the Dutch fortifications on the narrow...

reached the Grebbe line, where it was held up for three days. An attack on 13 May supported by artillery fire was unable to break the line. That night...

reinforcements would be sent, all coming from the reserves behind the Grebbe line or from the eastern front of the Fortress Holland. During the night and...

the Second World War. Inundations were an important part of the Dutch Grebbe line in 1939. But these military inundations were always "controlled" in three...

Following the Allied victory at Arnhem, Taite led his squadron against the Grebbe Line and thereafter organised German surrenders at Hilversum and Bussum. On...

and helped to capture the fort at Pannerden and the break through the Grebbe line. After the crossing of the IJssel the division advanced through Zwolle...

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Tolbrugschans Dutch waterlines Old / New Dutch Waterline Grebbe line IJssel Line Maas Line Peel-Raam Line Other Defence lines of the Netherlands "Rampjaar 1672"...

Infantry Division and Dutch 4th Infantry Division near Rhenen at the Grebbe line, Germany learned on 11 May that the Allies had decided to withdraw into...