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The Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History (French: Musée royal de l'Armée et d'Histoire militaire; Dutch: Koninklijk Museum van het Leger en de Krijgsgeschiedenis), also known as the Royal Military Museum (French: Musée royal de l'Armée (MRA); Dutch: Koninklijk Legermuseum (KLM)), is a military museum that occupies the two northernmost halls of the historic complex in the ...
Legion of Honour (France) Croix de Guerre (France) Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart, [ 1] VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO ( / də ˈwaɪ.ərt /; [ 2] 5 May 1880 – 5 June 1963) was an officer in the British Army. He was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" in ...
The Liberation of Belgium from German occupation began on 2 September 1944 when Allied forces entered the province of Hainaut [1] and was completed on 4 February 1945 with the liberation of the village of Krewinkel. [2] The liberation came after four years of German -occupied rule. The Belgian government was returned to power on 8 September ...
Belgium in World War II. German soldiers parade past the Royal Palace in Brussels, 1940. Despite being neutral at the start of World War II, Belgium and its colonial possessions found themselves at war after the country was invaded by German forces on 10 May 1940. After 18 days of fighting in which Belgian forces were pushed back into a small ...
The museum was founded in 1801 by Napoleon [1] and opened in 1803 as the Museum of Fine Arts of Brussels (French: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Dutch: Museum voor Schone Kunsten van Brussel), occupying fourteen rooms of the former Palace of Charles of Lorraine, known as the "Old Court".
Anglo-Belgian Memorial, Brussels. / 50.837611; 4.353501. The Anglo-Belgian War Memorial ( French: Monument aux Soldats Britanniques; Dutch: Monument voor de Britse Soldaat) is a monument in Brussels, Belgium, which was commissioned by the British Imperial War Graves Commission and designed by the British sculptor Charles Sargeant Jagger.
A military museum or war museum is an institution dedicated to the preservation and education of the significance of wars, conflicts, and military actions. These museums serve as repositories of artifacts, documents, photographs, and other memorabilia related to the military and war.
The National Museum of the Resistance(French: Musée national de la Résistance; Dutch: Nationaal Museum van de Weerstand) is a museum in Anderlecht, a municipality of Brussels, Belgium, tracing the history of the Belgian Resistanceand German occupation of Belgium during World War II. The museum is located at 14b, rue Van Lint/Van Lintstraatin ...