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The new Royal Museum of the Armed Forces (French: Musée Royal de l'Armée, Dutch: Koninklijk Museum van het Leger) was inaugurated by King Albert I on 22 July 1923. It is established in the curved galleries of the northern portion of the hemicycle, as well as in the metallic halls located to the west and south of the interior garden.
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 First United States Army, under General Courtney Hodges, captured areas south of Brussels in early September 1944. The U.S. units were spread very thinly from south of Liège, through the Ardennes and into Luxembourg, leaving their defensive line lightly reinforced. Between September and 16 December, the Ardennes Forest was the "quiet ...
Liberation Route Europe is an international remembrance trail that connects the main regions along the advance of the Western Allied Forces toward the liberation of Europe and final stage of the Second World War. The route started in 2008 as a Dutch regional initiative in the Arnhem-Nijmegen area and then developed into a transnational route ...
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. Unveiled in 1923 by the Prince of Wales, it commemorates the ...
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".
Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST on the Longmoor Military Railway in 1968. LMR 600 Gordon at Longmoor in 1949. The Longmoor Military Railway (LMR) was a British military railway in Hampshire that was built by the Royal Engineers from 1903 to train soldiers on railway construction and operations. The railway ceased operation on 31 October 1969.
The Royal Museums of Art and History ( RMAH) ( French: Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire (MRAH); Dutch: Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis (KMKG)) is a group of museums in Brussels, Belgium. It is part of the Belgian federal institute of the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO) and consists of five museums: the Art ...