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Capture of Liege

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

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1914Date range
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Chronological records

1914

Erich von Ludendorf7 August 1914

Liege · Warfare / World War, 1st

Ludendorf commands the 14th Infantry Brigade in Liege & accepts its surrender. Ludendorf calls up the zeppelins to drop bombs into the city and citadel, and personally leads 14th Brigade in between the forts into the city, forcing the Belgian garrison there to surrender

Erich von Ludendorf16 August 1914

Liege · Warfare / World War, 1st

The forts around Liege are finally taken

Names involved

Erich von Ludendorf

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