Despatches: Fort de Loncin 1914
Publisher |
Paul Reed
Media Type |
audio
Podknife tags |
History
Military
Warfare
World War I
Categories Via RSS |
History
Publication Date |
Mar 02, 2024
Episode Duration |
00:32:32

In August 1914 a force of more than 55,000 German soldiers descended on the Belgian city of Liege. Protected by a belt of steel and concrete forts, at Fort de Loncin the garrison of 550 men came under murderous German artillery fire resulting in a huge explosion that turned this site into a national cemetery and memorial, and came to stand for Belgian defiance in that first year of the war. The website of the fort is here: Fort de Loncin.

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