Born in Houffalize, he was the eldest son of Margaret II of Flanders by her first husband, Bouchard IV of Avesnes.

*: Houffalize-at the end of World War II, Schaerbeek collected fundings to relief Houffalize, suffering heavily from the last German counter-attack in the Ardennes ; since then, Houffalize yearly sends hundreds of Christmas Trees to Schaerbeek

Houffalize is a Walloon municipality of Belgium located in the province of Luxembourg.

Houffalize is a founding member of the Douzelage, a unique town twinning association of 24 towns across the European Union.

The division acted as spearhead of a wedge into the enemy line, and its junction with the First Army at Houffalize, 16 January 1945, created a huge trap.

For the next two weeks the corps moved steadily north in heavy, sometimes even desperate, fighting, and on 16 January they met units from First Army pushing south at Houffalize.

The Ourthe is formed at the confluence of the Ourthe Occidentale ( Western Ourthe ) and the Ourthe Orientale ( Eastern Ourthe ), west of Houffalize.

Towns along the Ourthe are Houffalize ( Ourthe Orientale ), La Roche-en-Ardenne, Hotton, Durbuy, Hamoir and Esneux.

The 7th Army defended against the northward attack of the U. S. 3rd Army, but ultimately failed to halt General Patton's drive to Bastogne and Houffalize.

Veille Foulerie ( Barchon ), Jupille, Liège, Angleur, Tilff, Esneux, Comblain-au-Pont, Durbuy, Hotton, La Roche-en-Ardenne, Houffalize, Gouvy, Troisvierges, Clervaux, Kautenbach, Lipperscheid, Diekirch.

This aircraft, which was planned for initial operational use about 1965, would be complementary to but likewise competitive with the four strategic ballistic missile systems, all of which are scheduled to become available earlier.

One strategy adopted by both Sargon and Naram-Sin, to maintain control of the country, was to install their daughters, Enheduanna and Emmenanna respectively, as high priestess to Sin, the Akkadian version of the Sumerian moon deity, Nanna, at Ur, in the extreme south of Sumer ; to install sons as provincial ensi governors in strategic locations ; and to marry their daughters to rulers of peripheral parts of the Empire ( Urkesh and Marhashe ).

At the centre of Alfred's reformed military defence system was a network of fortresses, or burhs, distributed at strategic points throughout the kingdom.

Alfred's burghal system was revolutionary in its strategic conception and potentially expensive in its execution.

Due to the strategic location of the site it was fortified from very early. In the 8th and 7th century BC the site of Amphipolis was ruled by Illyrian tribes.

The baneful influence of these antiquated principles was clearly shown in the maintenance of Königgratz-Josefstadt in 1866 as a strategic point, which was preferred to the defeat of the separated Prussian armies, and in the strange plans produced in Vienna for the campaign of 1859, and in the almost unintelligible Battle of Montebello in the same year.

It was understood that both ICBMs and SLBMs are obviously " strategic ".

SDI research was cut back following the end of Reagan's presidency, and in 1995 it was reiterated in a presidential joint statement that " missile defense systems may be deployed ... will not pose a realistic threat to the strategic nuclear force of the other side and will not be tested to ... that capability.

The development of large strategic bombers stagnated in the later part of the Cold War because of spiraling costs and the development of the Intercontinental ballistic missile ( ICBM ) – which was felt to have equal deterrent value while being much more difficult to intercept.

The British strategic bombing force largely came to an end when the V bomber force was phased out ; the last of which left service in 1983.

A rapid reduction in personnel and active equipment was to be carried out in parallel with a general re-alignment of strategic interests.

The strategic significance of the strait was one of the factors in the decision of the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great to found there in AD 330 his new capital, Constantinople, which came to be known as the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.

The scheme was abandoned when Corel's shares fell and it became clear that there was really no strategic fit.

In the United States, it was a controversial battle because of the island's questionable strategic value and the high casualty rate, which was the highest for U. S. military personnel of any battle in the Pacific War.

The strategic position, to wit the high bank of the Waal — which offered an unimpeded view far into Germania Transrhenana ( Germania Beyond the Rhine )— was recognized first by Drusus, who built a massive fortress ( castra ) and a headquarters ( praetorium ) in imperial style.

The primary objective was to increase strategic depth between the border and Italy and also to provide a major fluvial supply-route between the Roman armies in the region.

The strategic result of Crassus ' campaigns was the permanent annexation of Moesia by Rome.

It was believed that destruction of enemy agriculture on a strategic scale could thwart Sino-Soviet aggression in a general war.

The effect on the strategic situation in the Mediterranean was immediate, reversing the balance of the conflict and giving the British control at sea that they maintained for the remainder of the war.

The Baltic island of Gotland was also in a better strategic position for Russian-Byzantine trade, and was gaining eminence as a mercantile stronghold.

Of greater interest is a question as to whether movable property was assessed according to its location or ownership.

Fifteen stated that it was according to location, four by residence of the owner, and nineteen did not answer.

Another question that was asked of the assessors was whether they favored the assessment of movable property at its location or at the residence of the owner.

There was one vote for location being the place where the property is situated for the greater portion of the twelve months preceding the assessment date.

What made these new location figures particularly impressive was the fact that although 1960 was a year of mild business recession throughout the nation, Rhode Island scored marked progress in new industry, new plants, and new jobs.

If Af was assigned as the information cell for Af, the routine can detect that Af is identical to Af by comparing Af with the form stored at location Af.

Each questionnaire was audited for obvious mistakes and for comments, and was identified by a serial number, by the source list from which the company name was selected, and by the geographical location of the company as determined by the postmark on the return envelope.

The plant was located west of the Battenkill and south of the location of the former electric light plant.

The fact seems to be that very many large branch stores are uneconomical, that the choice of location in the suburbs is as important as it was downtown, and that even highly suburbanized cities will support only so many big branches.

The radar station with the best location was still not serviceable.

For centuries it was the location of historic festivals and open-air sports events.

Fort Henry on the Tennessee River was in an especially unfavorable low – lying location commanded by hills on the Kentucky side of the river.

Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River, although in a better location, also was not well – site, had a vulnerable land side and did not have enough heavy artillery for its defense against gunboats.

This led the government to propose reconstruction of the Armenian Atomic Power Station at Metsamor, which was closed after the 1988 earthquake because of its location in an earthquake-prone area and which had the same safety problems as reactors listed as dangerous in Bulgaria, Russia, and Slovakia.

Prior to modern times, there was no distinction between architects, engineers and often artists, and the title used varied depending on geographical location.

In chemistry, Schrödinger, Pauling, Mulliken and others noted that the consequence of Heisenberg's relation was that the electron, as a wave packet, could not be considered to have an exact location in its orbital.

There are the Tubanti just south of the Chatti and at the other end of what was then the Black Forest, the Varisti, whose location is known.

In 1886, a monument to Alexander III was erected at the approximate location of his death in Kinghorn.

There are some differing opinions as to the location of the Tekoa Amos was presumably from.