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- The French garrison under Lazare Carnot, aided by a French naval flotilla under Missiessy, resisted the Allied siege and only surrendered the city after Louis XVIII of France signed an armistice upon Napoleon's abdication.
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The Siege of Antwerp showed the weakness of fortifications in the face of the latest German heavy artillery, but it also revealed the Belgians’ refusal to bow to German demands and their determination to carry on fighting on the Allied side.
- Adrian Gilbert
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The Siege of Antwerp (Dutch: Beleg van Antwerpen, French: Siège d'Anvers, German: Belagerung von Antwerpen) was an engagement between the German and the Belgian, British and French armies around the fortified city of Antwerp during World War I.
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September 29, 1914: The Siege of Antwerp. As German troops approached Brussels in mid-August 1914, King Albert made the painful decision to abandon the unfortified Belgian capital and withdraw...
- Erik Sass
The intention was to take Antwerp and force Belgium out of the war by either capturing or decisively defeating the Belgian army. This had to be done before British and French reinforcements arrived at the besieged city. The main battle for Antwerp started on September 27.
The fall of Antwerp (Dutch: val van Antwerpen [vɑl vɑn ˈɑntʋɛrpə(n)]) on 17 August 1585 took place during the Eighty Years' War, after a siege lasting over a year from July 1584 until August 1585.
The siege of Antwerp began on in earnest in the first days of October. By October 8, it was clear the outer forts and connecting trenches would fall soon. The Belgian and British forces evacuated the city. Although most did so successfully, some were captured by German forces.
Together with 80,000 garrison troops, Antwerp's ring of 48 outer and inner forts presented formidable opposition to von Kluck's German First Amy's flank. Von Kluck had chosen to bypass Antwerp in the Germany army's advance through Belgium and into France.
