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Capture of Brussels

Name: Capture of Brussels – Germany factsheet records
Creator: World History Database

Germany · Warfare / World War, 1st. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records

1914Date range

2Named people

1Places

Chronological records

1914

Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg20 August 1914

Brussels · Warfare / World War, 1st

Germany captures Brussels

Erich von Ludendorf20 August 1914

Brussels · Warfare / World War, 1st

Brussels is captured without resistance by General von Kluck of the First Army

Names involved

Erich von LudendorfTheobald von Bethmann Hollweg

Provenance

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