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Updated: June 1, 2025
On this date, July 10, 1917, the Germans delivered a smashing blow against the British lines north of Nieuport on the Belgian coast. For twenty-four hours the Germans had maintained an intense bombardment which lasted from 6 o'clock in the morning of the 10th up to midnight and was renewed again at dawn on the following day.
He demanded that the Prince of Orange should be made to execute the Ghent treaty; to suppress the exercise of the Reformed religion in Harlem, Schoonhoven, and other places; to withdraw his armed vessels from their threatening stations, and to restore Nieuport, unjustly detained by him.
"The Germans are doing the obvious thing trying to prevent or hinder our forthcoming offensive. I notice that they have attacked near Nieuport and advanced to a depth of 600 yards on a 1400 yards front.
Effects of the Nieuport campaign The general and the statesman The Roman empire and the Turk Disgraceful proceedings of the mutinous soldiers in Hungary The Dunkirk pirates Siege of Ostend by the Archduke Attack on Rheinberg by Prince Maurice Siege and capitulation of Meura Attempt on Bois-le-Duc Concentration of the war at Ostend Account of the belligerents Details of the siege Feigned offer of Sir Francis Vere to capitulate Arrival of reinforcements from the States Attack and overthrow of the besiegers.
On March 30, 1915, ten British and some French aviators flew along the coast from Nieuport to Zeebrugge and dropped bombs on magazines and submarine bases. The last day of the month saw the destruction of the German captive balloon at Zeebrugge and the death of its two observers.
He was too good a soldier not to see at a glance that if the news brought by the straggler were true, the whole expedition was already a failure, and that, instead of a short siege and an easy victory, a great battle was to be fought upon the sands of Nieuport, in which defeat was destruction of the whole army of the republic, and very possibly of the republic itself. The stadholder hesitated.
Pointing to the harbour of Nieuport behind them, now again impassable with the flood, to the ocean on the left where rode the fleet, carrying with it all hope of escape by sea, and to the army of the archduke in front, almost within cannon-range, he simply observed that they had no possible choice between victory and death.
And Ely killed in October, Cromwell Dixon gone the plucky youngster, Professor Montgomery, Nieuport, Todd Shriver whom Martin Dockerill and Hank Odell liked so much, and many others, all dead, like Moisant. I don't think I take any undue risks, but it makes me stop and think. And Hank Odell with a busted shoulder.
Once more there were stories flying about that the stadholder had called the Advocate liar, and that he had struck him or offered to strike him tales as void of truth, doubtless, as those so rife after the battle of Nieuport, but which indicated the exasperation which existed.
Should they give him time he would profit by their negligence, and next morning when they reached Nieuport, the birds would be flown. Especially the leaders of the mutineers of Diest and Thionville were hoarse with indignation at the proposed delay. They had not left their brethren, they shouted, nor rallied to the archduke's banner in order to sit down and dig in the sand like ploughmen.
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