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Updated: June 28, 2025
The King of England had just retaken Namur, without Villeroi, who had succeeded Marshal Luxembourg, having been able to relieve the place. Louis XIV. had already let out that he "should not pretend to avail himself of any special conventions until the Prince of Orange was satisfied as regarded his person and the crown of England."
There is always desperate fighting in the Low Countries; and the names of Mons, Liège, Namur, and Lille recur again and again. England always succeeds in maintaining herself, though not without some reverses, on the sea.
His plan is formed. The Marshal begged to be relieved of the task, setting forth the danger of pursuing foes that were now reunited and far away. It was in vain. About 11.30 the Emperor developed his verbal instructions in a written order penned by Bertrand. If they have evacuated Namur, it is to be occupied by the National Guards.
The Governor used lofty and somewhat threatening language, assuring Marolles that he was at that moment in possession, not only of Namur but of Antwerp citadel; and the deputies accordingly departed, having accomplished very little by their journey.
The Queen returned his salutation, in the French fashion, by offering her cheek to his embrace, extending the same favor to the Duke of Aerschot and the Marquis of Havre. The cavaliers then remounted and escorted the Queen to Namur, Don John riding by the side of the litter and conversing with her all the way. It was late in the evening when the procession arrived in the city.
This was admitted by the French minister of war, who said at midnight Monday, August 24, of the failure of the "Namur triangle": "It is, of course, regrettable that owing to difficulties of execution which could not have been foreseen our plan of attack has not achieved its object.
It was just such an operation or series of operations that carried the tremendously strong fortress of Antwerp in record time, that accounted for the surprising fall of Namur in two days, and that explains the rapidity with which a score of almost impregnable Russian fortresses in Poland fell before the rush of the German avalanche.
Belgians Rush to Defense of Their Frontier Towns Bombarded and Burned The Defense of Liège Destruction of Louvain Fall of Namur German Proclamation to Inhabitants Belgian Capital Occupied by the Germans Without Bloodshed Important Part Played by American Minister Brand Whitlock March of the Kaiser's Troops Through the City Belgian Forces Retreat to Antwerp Dinant and Termonde Fall
In Dinant this feeling was high, and there was, moreover, a manifestation of special animosity against the Count of Charolais. A rabble marched out of the city to the walls of Bouvignes, a town of Namur, loyal to Burgundy, carrying a stuffed figure with a cow-bell round its neck. Certain well-known emblems of Burgundy on a tattered mantle showed that this represented Charles of Burgundy.
The fortress was said to be as strong as Liège and it owed its importance in the present war to the fact that it was the apex of the two French flanks. One ran from Namur to Charleroi and the other by Givet to Mezieres. Warned by their experiences at Liège, the Germans made most determined efforts against Namur.
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