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Committee for Relief in Belgium in Lille, France, during the First World War (1914-1918), photo by an unknown photographer, American service personnel from the 1st Aero Squadron, 1916. San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive.

Relief ship carrying supplies to Belgium, c. 1915. Hoover Presidential Library, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

Memorial to the Reformer, linguist, and scholar William Tyndale (c. 1494-1536) in the Vilvoorde public gardens, Belgium.

Why has the Commission for Relief in Belgium, one of the greatest humanitarian relief operations in modern history, been almost completely forgotten? The operation started in Belgium in 1914 and relied on the heroic determination and managerial...

The Battle of Jemappes was a decisive battle in the War of the First Coalition (1792-97), part of the French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802). On 6 November 1792, a French army under General Charles-François Dumouriez defeated an Austrian force...

In 1914, Millions of people in German occupied territory in Belgium and France were facing the very real threat of starvation. Hope for these millions required the help of a neutral power walking a thin line between belligerents. The Commission...

The Battle of Neerwinden saw the major defeat of a French republican army by an allied force of Austrians and Dutch during the War of the First Coalition (1792-97), part of the broader French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802). The battle drove...

The Battle of Fleurus (26 June 1794) was the climax of the Flanders Campaign of 1792-95 and was one of the most decisive battles in the War of the First Coalition (1792-1797). A French victory, Fleurus ensured French ascendency for the rest...

The Ghent Altarpiece, otherwise known as The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, is a painted panel altarpiece created in 1432 for the Vijd Chapel in the church of St. John the Baptist, now St. Bavo Cathedral in Ghent, Belgium. The work is credited...

The War of the First Coalition (1792-1797) was a continent-spanning conflict in which a coalition of European powers, including Austria, Prussia, Great Britain, the Dutch Republic, Spain, and several others, sought to contain and defeat Revolutionary...