Abstract
It is a commonplace to say that Belgium is the battlefield of Europe. There are few localities in the country which have not been fought over by foreign armies. Most of the decisive battles of the large European wars took place in Belgium. In the seventeenth, eighteenth, and ninteenth centuries, European coalitions fought against Louis XIV, the French Revolution, and Napoleon I. The same thing happened in the twentieth century when worldwide coalitions fought against the aggressive attacks and hegemony of Germany. Formerly, the names of Ramillies, Audenarde, Jemappes, and Waterloo reverberated throughout Europe; today Ypres, the Ardennes, and the Bastogne have become famous all over the world.
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