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Feb 10, 2017 · 1 The Battle of Mons: 23 August 1914. 2 The Legend of the Angels of Mons. 3 Occupied Mons. 4 Liberation on 11 November 1918. Selected Bibliography. Citation. The city of Mons took on great symbolic importance during the Great War. The capital of the province of Hainaut, Mons had about 27,500 inhabitants at the beginning of the war.
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What followed was the battle of the “Poche de Mons”. Described a little too emphatically as “petit Stalingrad”, these rather disjointed battles, which took place between 2 and 6 September, should have been called “battle of the Borinage” insofar as they did not concern the capital of Hainaut, but rather the surrounding industrial ...
- The Bridges at Mons
- First Contact
- Discipline vs. Discipline
- C Company at Nimy
- Pressure and Withdrawal
- To Every House A Gunner
- Blowing The Bridges
- Exaggeration and Angels
The Belgian town of Mons is at a junction of transport networks, including the Mons-Condé Canal. Four bridges crossed the canal at Nimy, just north of Mons, including a road bridge to Brussels and a railway bridge on the main line from Brussels to Paris. The two sides of the war were caught up in what became known as the Race for the Sea. Each army...
On the morning of Sunday, August 23, 1914, a German cavalry patrol rode out of the mist toward the canal at Nimy. The cavalry were an important military unit at the start of the war. They used their mobility to get ahead of the infantry and exploit breakthroughs in the enemy lines. The terrible efficiency with which they would be destroyed by machi...
The British troops were well-trained professionals, not the volunteer regiments who would do much of the fighting later in the war. Through experience and training, each soldier could fire fifteen rounds in a minute. As a result of this and the emplaced machineguns, the Germans walked into a wall of bullets. They too were disciplined. Even as vast ...
At Nimy, C Company of the Fusiliers came under immense pressure. The Germans, learning from their initial losses, abandoned massed advances attacking instead in small repeated rushes. Using these tactics, they were able to make use of cover on the canal-side embankments. The British were suffering under heavy fire. The last of C Company’s machine-g...
At the train station, the 4thMiddlesex held until nearly noon. As they withdrew, one man stayed behind on the roof to provide covering fire. He died as the Germans stormed the station. At Nimy, a German soldier named Niemeyer provided a way across the canal. Leaping in under fire, he triggered the mechanism of a drawbridge, letting his comrades cro...
On the west flank, the Germans found every building on the flat ground around St Ghislain seemed to hold a British rifleman. The 12thBrandenburg Grenadiers lost 500 casualties crossing this area. For all the damage they were doing, the British could not hold. With the bridges lost at Nimy, the Germans were pouring across the canal. The men of the 1...
The British tried to blow the bridges as they left, with mixed success. At Jemappes, two soldiers managed to destroy the bridges, despite coming under fire from the enemy. At Mariette, Captain Wright of the Royal Engineers swung hand over hand beneath the bridge to connect explosive charges but was still unable to destroy the bridge.
By the end of the day, the British had abandoned Mons. They had inflicted 5,000 casualties on the Germans, in return for 1,600 men lost. Their withdrawal could hardly be called a victory, but it had been successful enough to deserve some celebration. Several Victoria Crosses were awarded, including the machine-gunners Lieutenant Dease and Private G...
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Jun 15, 2023 · Ce mardi, les inspecteurs de l’Unité de Bien-Être Animal du SPW ont été amenés à intervenir dans une habitation située dans le Borinage, non loin de Mons. À l’intérieur, ils trouvent ...
Book number: 2965 Author:--- Other Editors and Contributors: ( ) ! Our databases is built in French only. See translation of the most current terms here. Title: Mons Borinage. 188
