Western Scheldt Tunnel was created in 2003.

Battle of the Afsluitdijk happened on 1940-05-12.

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The Rijin River, Mass River, and Scheldt River.

The Danube Delta

The Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt Delta

The Volga Delta

The Scheldt is a major river in Europe. The Belgian port of Antwerp is on the Scheldt, about 80 miles upriver from where it flows into the sea. After the D-Day landings, the Allies had to have a major port, and as soon as possible, in order to bring in enough supplies to support the drive into Germany. This meant Antwerp, or possibly Rotterdam. Either of those ports were in the British area and would have to be taken by British troops. The British finally did take Antwerp in September 1944, but took another two months to clear the banks of the Scheldt of Germans, so Allied ships could actually reach Antwerp.

Scheldt river (Dutch: Schelde, French: Escaut) is the longest river in Belgium 200 km

The river with highest total length is River Meuse (Dutch Maas), although it is only 183 km in Belgium, it is actually 925 km flowing through Belgium and the Netherlands

There are different rivers flowing from France through Belgium. These are the main rivers:

La Meuse (going on in The Netherlands)

L'Escaut (Scheldt in Dutch) (going on in The Netherlands)

L'Yser

And then you have some side-rivers:

Leie

Semois

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The 3 most important ones:
- La Muese
- Scheldt
- Yser

also:
- Leie
- Semois

The cast of Warning Red - 1956 includes: Mary Reading Miller as herself Melvin Scheldt as himself

There are quite a few rivers in the Netherlands, but the main ones are The Rhine, Meuse/Maase, and Scheldt/Schelde

The cast of De film in Zweden - 1973 includes: Bengt Forslund as himself Harry Schein Jurgen Scheldt Bo Widerberg as himself

There are many different major rivers in The Netherlands A few are:The Rhine, the Maas, and the IJssel, Markermeer & Scheldt. i hope i helped you in some way. enjoy if you need more help then you can email me at justin3drew3bieber@hotmail.com .

Rotterdam and Antwerp both are built on the estuarial and canal system fed by three rivers; Rhine, Meuse and Scheldt. Please follow the link below for more details of the largest hydrodynamic engineering project in the history of mankind.

The main waterways in Belgium used for transportation and trade are the Scheldt River, the Meuse River, and the Albert Canal. These waterways play a crucial role in connecting Belgium to other European countries and facilitating the movement of goods and products.

The three rivers that flow into the North Sea are the Rhine, the Meuse, and the Scheldt.

The bloodiest battle was the Battle of Bulge (the Ardennes Offensive), but there were other bloody battles like the Battle of Antwerp and Battle of the Scheldt in Octber-November 1944.

1,100,000 served

45,000 killed

54,000 wounded

Notable battles include: The Dieppe Raid, The Moro River Campaign, Battle of Ortona, the battles to break the Hitler Line, Juno Beach in the Battle of Normandy, Battle of the Scheldt, The Battle of the Atlantic.

At the conclusion of the war, Canada had the third largest allied Navy.

The Allies desperately needed permanent docks and ways to land major supplies. By a week after D-Day the beaches were swamped with tons of supplies and vehicles being landed. Even their Mulberry harbours were unable to cope, then there was a huge storm in late June which severely damaged these Mulberry's. Capturing large ports in Belgium and Holland was the only answer.

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Rotterdam is important for its strategic location of the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta and is known as the Gateway to Europe

Name the port city on the Rhine that ia nearest to the north sea

Antwerp (Antwerpen) is the most important cargo harbour in Belgium. It is connected by the sea by the river Scheldt (Schelde).

Ghent (Gent) is the second cargo harbour in Belgium. The harbour is along the canal Gent-Terneuzen where it is connected to the Scheldt.

Zeebrugge is the third one, but is the most important one for passenger traffic and the most important fishing harbour (next to Oostende and Nieuwpoort). Zeebrugge is part of the city of Bruges (Brugge) and is at the coast of the North Sea).

Saar River Saison River Salat River Sambre Saône Sarthe River Sauer (France) Sauldre Saulx River Save (Garonne) Saâne Scarpe Scheldt Scie River Sée Segre River Seille Seille (Saône) Seine Selle Sélune Semois Sensée Serein Seudre Sèvre Nantaise Sèvre Niortaise Siagne Sioule Slack River Solin River Somme (river) Sorgue Soue Souffel

The Royal Canadian Navy and merchant marine fought in the 'Second Battle of the Atlantic', Canadian pilots participated in the 'Battle of Britain', and part of the Dam Busters. The army participated in the capture of Ortona, Juno Beach on D-Day - the 'Battle of Normandy', the Battle of the Scheldt, Liberation of the Netherlands.

There was also the battles of the Rhineland, the Hitler Line, Agira (Sicily), the Gothic Line

Also Dieppe, Hong Kong, Battle of Belguim, Italian campaign, North Africa

By road: highway E40 to the east (Germany), E17 to the South (France) and the North (The Netherlands)

By train: highspeed trains to Paris, London, Amsterdam, Koln

By plane: international airports Brussels (Zaventem), Brussels South (Charleroi), Liege, Antwerp, Oostende, Kortrijk

By boat: seaports at Antwerp (by river Scheldt), Gent, Zeebrugge and even Brussels (by seacanal). Rivers and canals to France and The Netherlands

The answer is the Seine river.

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Not at all: this river is called Arno. "Arne" is the name of a small river, perhaps more like a tidal creek, which flowed around the medieval settlement of Middelburg, (nowadays the capital of Zeeland province in the Netherlands), thus providing it with an entrance to Sea via the Scheldt river and allowing the towns thriving maritime commerce during the Dutch Golden Age. The village called Arnemuiden (lit."mouth of the Arne) still reminds us of the ancient river, which silted up in mid 16th century to be replaced by a new shipping channel. Only a few stretches of the old riverbed remain.

The cast of Adventures in Spying - 1992 includes: Jillian Armenante as Coed Row Avers Kimberle Blunt Michael Bowen as Slater Matthew Brooks Seymour Cassel as Ray Rucker Jan Cocek Bernie Coulson as Brian McNichols Gary Edelik Michael Emil as Professor Hardwick Krisha Fairchild Corey Gunnestad as Larry Shoup Sean Hagerty John Harkins as Paperboy Vickie Lynn Rosemont David McIntyre Robert Munns Mike Patans Ethan Sandler Coby Scheldt Jill Schoelen as Julie Converse Rory Van Berk David Wasman

The list would be far too long to write. Not including WW1 there was the Dieppe landing in 1942 which was a badly planned raid on a well defended port.

The invasion of Sicily and Italy included a number of Canadian divisions at the Moro River campaign and the Battle of Ortona.

The Normandy Landings in 1944 included a very large contingent of Canadian units landing on the British allocated beaches. They were involved in fighting around Caen until the allied breakout into the rest of France pushing along the north coast towards the Low Countries.

My Aunt was attached to II Canadian Corps during the time of the battles in Belgium and the Netherlands including the Scheldt estuary area which the Germans had flooded to make it more difficult for the allies.

The cast of Chase - 1985 includes: Sandy Albright as Shelley Dick Arnold as Judge Williams Sam Bryant as Old Man George Catalano as Driver Don Eastman as 2nd Migrant Richard Farnsworth as Judge Grand Pettitt Rich Hawkins as District Attorney Cooper Huckabee as Coy Raymond Kemp as 1st Migrant Terence Knox as Craig Phalen Bill McDonald as Clark Douglas Newell as Bundles Michael Parks as Larry Butler Emily Penhollow as Little Girl John Philbin as Bobby Peg Phillips as Auntie Jane Coby Scheldt as Migrant in Bar Jayne Taini as Waitress John Walter Davis as Korby Sara Wilson as Old Lady Kathleen York as Darlene

Yes of course!

There is some discussion between Flemish (Dutch speaking, living in the north) and Walloon people (French speaking, living in the south) but that is nothing new. And there are no fights about it :-)

At this moment there is also some discussion between Belgium and The Netherlands about dredging the river Scheldt (important for the harbour of Antwerp) and also about the cargo train route from Antwerp to Germany (passing Holland). But we don't fight about that !!!

And these days there are some troubles in Brussels between the police and teenage gangs (mostly with children of Turkish immigrants) but that's no war of course!

There are some Belgian troops in foreign countries, most of them in Afganistan (security of airports), Kosovo (peace-keeping), Libanon (demining), Congo (peace-keeping) and in the waters of Somalie (anti-piracy).

But these should all be non-fighting missions, and acutally most people of Belgium don't even like that !

Belgium

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The Belgium as nation didn't exist in the year 1831. It was created by the union of Flemish and Walloon peoples which obtain the independence from the Netherlands.

It was thought it had to be built up as a neutral State in order to more effectively separate France from the strategically pivotal region of the Scheldt Estuary.

Leopold of the German House Saxony-Coburg-Gotha was appointed King of the Belgian People.

This "nomination" satisfied both French and British interests especially because at that time Germany was still divided in many States of minor importance and power sometimes having contrasting political and economical relationship.

A King of German Origin, wouldn't have therefore had no interest to support a politic which could harm British sensitivity about that delicate area and no interest which could annoy a powerful neighbour like France either.

The equilibrium in being since the fall of Napoleon had been safeguarded.

The Marne river,

The Somme river, or

The Meuse river

The Somme river is perhaps most famous as a result of the World War I Battle of the Somme (July 1, 1916).

The Meuse river saw battles near the fortress of Verdun, where the fighting between the French and the Germans was very fierce especially in early 1916.

The great battles which finally stopped the German advance in the Spring Offensive of 1918 were fought around the valley of the Somme in places like Villers Bretonneux, which marked the beginning of the end of the war.

The Somme is the best known. The Aisne also was a battle site and also the Oise. As was the Marne against the French in the Autumn of 1914. The Marne river is where the French stopped the German advance on Paris..so you are most likely looking for the Somme.

There were basically two reasons Eisenhower did not plunge on into Germany when his forces first reached the German border in September, 1944. One was that Eisenhower was being very cautious and conservative. He was not a brilliant battlefield general - he got and kept his job because he was an agreeable person who was able to get the Americans and British and Canadians to all pull together. Coalition warfare is traditionally very difficult and the affable Eisenhower was just the man for the job. Eisenhower wanted all his forces closed up to the Rhine before pushing on into the German interior. He worried over the possibility of offensives erupting from any enclaves of Germans left west of the Rhine.

But the main reason was logistics. There were not enough supplies on hand, of all kinds, but particularly ammunition and POL (petroleum, oil and lubricants). It took upward of a hundred thousand gallons of gasoline per day to keep a single armored division moving. The Allies as yet had no real port on the European mainland. The supply crisis could not be eased until the Allies had Antwerp and had its port facilities back in operation. Until that time practically all supplies had to come ashore over the invasion beaches, and be moved forward by truck. The French railroad system was wrecked by pre-invasion bombing. All trucks were taken from whatever unit they were assigned to and used to move supplies forward, but it was not enough. These trucks themselves used a lot of gasoline and were soon wearing out. There was only enough supplies for one big push, and Eisenhower elected to allow Montgomery to try his Operation Market-Garden, an effort to seize major bridges intact over the Maas, Waal and Rhine Rivers in Holland, which would put the Allies north of, outflanking, the German West Wall defensive belt and on the short road to Berlin. Everybody else had to be halted so Montgomery could have all the available supplies to try this plan, which unfortunately, failed. Another aspect of this episode is that while Montgomery was busy promoting Market-Garden, which would put British forces into position to drive to Berlin and "win the war", he was not taking Antwerp. Antwerp was in Montgomery's area, and he did not get around to taking the city until after Market-Garden was done. Antwerp is seventy miles from the sea up the estuary of the Scheldt River, and Montgomery did not get around to clearing the banks of the Scheldt of Germans with their cannons until November, so that supply ships could actually reach Antwerp.

The main major event that got Britain and France involved in WWII was the invasion of Poland by the Nazis. The three countries, Britain, France, and Poland had an agreement that if any one of them was invaded the other two would attack Germany.

Many major ports and positions were incorporated into the Atlantic Wall, receiving heavy fortifications. Hitler ordered all positions to fight to the end, and some of them remained in German hands until Germany's unconditional surrender.

The Revolt of the Netherlands


The Netherlands was a group of seventeen provinces clustered around the mouth of the Rhine and Scheldt rivers, and they were ruled by the king of Spain, as part of his Burgundian inheritance. Each province had a tradition of liberties, and each elected a stadtholder, a man who provided military leadership when necessary. The stadtholder often was an important noble and became the most important politician in the province.


Since the Middle Ages, the Netherlands had included many cities dominated by wealthy merchants. By 1560 the cities housed many Calvinists, including some who had fled France.

Philip II of Spain sought to impose on the Netherlands a more centralized government, as well as a stronger Catholic Church, following the decrees of the Council of Trent. His efforts provoked resistance by some nobles, led by Sir William of Orange (1533-1584), who was called "the silent" because he discussed his political plans with very few people. An agreement and pledge to resist, called the Compromise of 1564 and signed by people throughout the provinces, led to rebellion. The regent, Margaret of Parma, once hissed that the rebels were mere beggars; they took that insult and made it their nickname.

Philip sent the Duke of Alva (1508-1583) with 20,000 soldiers to suppress the rebellion. Alva established the "council of Blood," which executed several thousand Calvinists as heretics. He also imposed new taxes, including sales tax of 10% . Most significantly, the harsh Spanish Inquisition supplanted the milder Dutch/Flemish variety.


"Sea Beggars" resisted Alva along the coast, raiding ports, and landlubbers opened the dykes to frustrate the marches of the Spanish armies. In 1576, the unpaid Spanish mercial supremacy in the Netherlands.


The Calvinist northern provinces and the Catholic southern provinces united in 1576 in the Pacification of Ghent, but were unable to cooperate. They broke into two groups: The Calvinist Union of Utrecht (approx. modern day Netherlands) and the Catholic Union of Arras (approx. modern day Belgium). The division attracted international attention: a son of Catherine de' Medici attempted to become the leader of the revolt and the English sent troops and money to support the rebels after 1585.


The Spanish were driven out of the northern provinces in the 1590s, and the war ended in 1609. The independent northern provinces, dominated by Holland, were called the United Provinces, and the southern provinces, ruled by the king of Spain, the Spanish Netherlands.


from AP European History book by REA