The group raced to the coast of the English Channel at Abbeville, thus isolating the British Expeditionary Force, Belgian Army, and some divisions of the French Army in northern France.

** Belgisch Leger ( Belgian Army )

Mike Hoare was employed to created the English-speaking 5 Commando ANC at Kamina, with the assistance of a Belgian officer, Colonel Frederic Vanderwalle, while 6 Commando ANC was French-speaking and originally under the command of a Belgian Army colonel, Lamouline.

It is believed that the seized vehicles ( which included 15 Belgian Army Pandur APCs leased to Beninise army troops ) and parts have been used to equip the Military of Equatorial Guinea, and such seizure are considered by some as an act of piracy.

They supposedly called them " French ," as it was the official language of the Belgian Army at that time.

* 1996 – A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.

NCO: Those who have completed five years of high school and have served a 4 months as voluntary soldier, will do a 9-month-stage at the Infantry Training Department of the Belgian Army in Arlon, before becoming a sergeant in the Luxembourg army.

*: 40 A3 ( former Belgian ) Brazilian Army

*: Belgian Army between 1972 and 1993.

With Napoleon III personally leading the army with Marshal MacMahon in attendance, they led the Army of Châlons in a left-flanking march northeast towards the Belgian border in an attempt to avoid the Prussians before striking south to link up with Bazaine.

A week after Messines Ridge Haig gave his objectives to his Army commanders: wearing out the enemy, securing the Belgian coast and connecting with the Dutch frontier by the capture of Passchendaele Ridge, followed by an advance on Roulers and Operation Hush, an attack along the coast with an amphibious landing and that if the manpower and artillery were insufficient, only the first part of the plan might be fulfilled.

The King notified King George VI by telegram on 25 May 1940 that Belgian forces were being crushed, saying " assistance which we give to the Allies will come to an end if our Army is surrounded ".

Belgian historian Francis Balace wrote that capitulation was inevitable because the Belgian Army was not able to fight any longer against the German army.

The Belgian Army (; ) is the national military of Belgium.

The Belgian Army was established after Belgium became independent in October 1830.

Invaded by surprise by the Imperial German Army, which was approximately 600, 000 men strong, the small, ill-equipped, 117, 000 strong Belgian army succeeded, for ten days, to hold the German army in front of Liège in 1914.

Later Belgium contributed the I Belgian Corps to NATO's Northern Army Group.

In order to do so, the Belgian Army is currently phasing out all tracked vehicles in favour of wheeled vehicles.

The Belgian Army retains two regiments of grenadiers based in Brussels.

A series of Allied counter-attacks — including the Battle of Arras — failed to sever the German spearhead, which reached the coast on 20 May, separating the British Expeditionary Force ( BEF ) near Armentières, the French 1st Army, and the Belgian Army further to the north from the majority of French troops south of the German penetration.

After 13 December 1946, it became a United Nations Trust Territory, remaining under Belgian administration until the separate nations of Rwanda and Burundi gained independence on 1 July 1962.

Elsewhere the Belgian Congo and other African nations gained their independence from France, Belgium and the United Kingdom.

* The Trust Territory of Ruanda-Urundi ( Belgium, effectively linked to the Belgian Congo ): Separately gained independence in 1962 as Rwanda and Burundi.

The party gained 0. 15 % in the election of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives and 0. 27 % in the Dutch electoral college of the Belgian Senate.

In the 2004 European Parliament election, standing as Christlich-Soziale Partei-Europäische Volkspartei, the party gained the single seat allocated by Belgian law to the German-speaking community.

On election day, he received about 800, 000 preferential votes, which is the second largest number of votes ever gained in the history of Belgian elections.

The team regrouped with new drivers and Tony Southgate as designer, and gained its first V12 victory for Pedro Rodríguez at the 1970 Belgian Grand Prix in a P153, with further victories for Jo Siffert and Peter Gethin in 1971 in the P160.

When the Belgian War of Independence broke out Van Speijk gained an appointment as commander of a gunboat.

Joos gained notoriety in January 2004, when in an interview to Belgian P-Magazine, he said, about homosexuals:

In 1839 he was elected to the Belgian lower chamber, where he gained a great reputation for oratory.

After completing his course there, he gained the help of the Belgian government-in-exile to study at the London School of Economics ( LSE ).

The two gained quick prominence after the release of their self-titled demo tape and subsequent review by Belgian industrial music magazine Sideline.

The French and Flemish Christian Democratic Party candidates lost 21 seats overall, while the two Belgian Socialist parties gained 3 seats, giving the two groups each 61 seats.

The Belgian company Union Minière du Haut Katanga provided the United States with much of the uranium required by the Manhattan Project and the early cold war ( see: history of nuclear weapons ).

In July 1999, Belgium's nuclear phase-out legislation was decided by the Flemish Liberals and Democrats-led Government including the Belgian Green party, Groen !.

A cable from the American Embassy in Brussels from Nov. 2009-published by Wikileaks-not only confirms their existence, but also informs that the Belgian government rejected a proposal from Germany to propose to the rest of NATO that the nuclear weapons be removed from both countries ( as well as those stationed in the Netherlands and Italy ).

SCK • CEN (,) is the Belgian nuclear research centre located in Mol, Belgium.

Category: Belgian nuclear physicists

In July 2005, the Federal Planning Bureau published a new report, which states that oil and other fossil fuels generate 90 % of Belgian energy use, while nuclear power accounts for 9 % and renewable energy for 1 %.

Halfway through the 19th century after the emergence of Napoleon III in 1851 it was clear that the Belgian army did not have the capability to resist an attack from France.

The Pombo, still farther east but close to the Zairian border, were much influenced by developments in the Belgian Congo ( present-day Zaire ), and a large contingent of Pombo living in Léopoldville ( present-day Kinshasa ) formed a political party in the early 1950s.

The sardine Limnothrissa miodon was introduced to Lake Kivu in the late 1950s by a Belgian Engineer A. Collart.

In the 1950s, Gaston followed in his father's footsteps, participating in a Belgian research station in Antarctica.

His Belgian parents returned to their homeland in the 1950s, and Jouret attended the Free University of Brussels from which he received his medical degree.

The novel's title refers to the character of Nathan Price, a missionary in the 1950s Belgian Congo who creates his own " misprint " by mispronouncing the local expression " Tata Jesus is bängala ", meaning " Jesus is most precious ".

British journalist Edward Hooper publicized a hypothesis that AIDS was inadvertently caused in the late 1950s in the Belgian Congo by Koprowski's research into a polio vaccine.

In the 1950s, an independence movement arose in the Belgian Congo, and the Belgians became convinced they could no longer control the territory.

In the early 1950s the Belgian government came under increasing pressure to allow the Belgian Congo to become a self-governing state.

In the early 1950s, Caleb Gattegno popularized this set of colored number rods created by the Belgian primary school teacher Georges Cuisenaire ( 1891-1976 ), who called the rods réglettes.

The Indian armed forces had been equipped with a copy of the Belgian FN FAL rifle since the 1950s.

The core of Matongé was formed in late 1950s by the foundation of Maisaf ( Maison Africaine, " African House ") which served as a centre and residence for university students from the Belgian Congo.