He gained support from several personalities: the King of the Belgians, the Prince of Wales, the Diadochus Constantine ( hereditary prince of Greece ) and William Penny Brookes, the founder of the " Olympian Games " in Shropshire, England, and Ioannis Phokianos.

Percherons came from France, Belgians from Belgium, Shires from England, Clydesdales from Scotland.

Brian Sykes commented on the " Flemish " explanation that the levels of blood group A in the Low Countries are not particularly high, but that it is not possible to decide from blood sampling whether the high levels in ' Little England ' were caused by rampaging Vikings or by a few cartloads of Belgians.

During a group game against Belgium, Wilkins scored a memorable goal when he lobbed the whole Belgian defence and, in one movement, latched on to the ball ( thereby breaching the Belgians ' obvious offside trap ) and delivered a second lob, this time over the head of the goalkeeper and into the net to put England ahead.

Nelis then accompanied Capitaine Commandant Émile Mathieu to England during November 1913 to demonstrate aerial use of the Lewis machine gun at Hendon and Aldershot ; as a result, the British adopted the Lewis, although the Belgians did not.

it has been made far more difficult by what the Belgians have done, or failed to do, in the Congo since 1885.

This was a great morale boost to the Belgians, but failed to alter the predicament of the city.

After an earlier failed experiment on 21 October, the Belgians managed to open the sluices at Nieuwpoort during the nights of 26 October to 29 October during successive high tides, thereby steadily raising the water level until an impassable flooded marshland was created up to a mile wide and stretching as far south as Diksmuide.

He did not make the 100 greatest Belgians, as voted by the Dutch speakers in De Grootste Belg ( the Greatest Belgian ).

The Belgians and Czechs produced and widely exported their " Mausers " in various calibers throughout the 1920s and 1930s, before their production facilities were absorbed by Nazi Germany to make parts or whole rifles for the German Army.

Earlier in the year, General Dallaire had been told by an informer named " Jean-Pierre " in January 1994 that there was a plan to attack the Belgians in order to make them leave the UNAMIR, where they formed the largest contingent of soldiers.

They range from the Soviet Embassy on Sixteenth Street, a gray shuttered pile suggesting a funeral-accessories display house, to what Congressman Rooney has called `` that monstrosity on Thirty-fourth Street '', the modern cement-and-glass chancery of the Belgians.

The colony was administered from Brussels, with neither the Congolese nor the resident Belgians having any vote.

The Belgians -- at least officially -- departed from the Congo as well, withdrawing all of their uniformed troops.

* National Day, celebrates the inauguration of Léopold I, the first king of the Belgians, after its independence from the Netherlands on October 4, 1830.

Only a few Belgians managed to profit from the economic growth.

The UN Security Council was called into session on 7 December 1960 to consider Soviet demands that the UN seek Lumumba's immediate release, the immediate restoration of Lumumba as head of the Congo government, the disarming of the forces of Mobutu, and the immediate evacuation of Belgians from the Congo.

The region's ethnic diversity has been affected by repeated waves of immigrant workers from abroad: Belgians before 1910 ; Poles and Italians in the 1920s and 1930s ; Italians and Germans since 1945 and North Africans and Portuguese since 1960 ; and large cities like Lille, Calais, and Boulogne are home to sizable communities of British, Dutch, Scandinavian, Sub-Saharan African, and Latin American immigrants and their descendants.

Wounded and derelict British and French soldiers and Belgians and French of military age were hidden from the Germans and provided with false papers by Prince Reginald de Croy at his château of Bellignie near Mons.

Leopold I ( Leopold Georges Chrétien Frederic ; ; Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, later Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony ; 16 December 1790 – 10 December 1865 ) was from 21 July 1831 the first King of the Belgians, following Belgium's independence from the Netherlands.

Leopold III ( born as Léopold Philippe Charles Albert Meinrad Hubertus Marie Miguel ( French ) or Leopold Filips Karel Albert Meinrad Hubertus Maria Miguel ( Dutch ) or Leopold Philipp Karl Albert Meinrad Hubertus Maria Miguel ( German ); 3 November 1901 – 25 September 1983 ) reigned as King of the Belgians from 1934 until 1951, when he abdicated in favour of the heir apparent, his son Baudouin.

Albert I ( April 8, 1875 – February 17, 1934 ) reigned as King of the Belgians from 1909 through 1934.

Baudouin (, ; 7 September 1930 – 31 July 1993 ) reigned as King of the Belgians, following his father's abdication, from 1951 until his death in 1993.

Of these ' New Belgians ', 1, 200, 00 ( 49 %) are of European ancestry and 1, 350, 000 ( 51 %) are allochtonen i. e. from non-Western countries ( Morocco, Turkey, Congo, Pakistan, Algeria ).

In addition to the original French and English, later settlers included Germans, Belgians and others who came directly from Europe.

Belgians emigrated from there between 1850 and 1860.

A discussion of Belgian culture requires discussing both those aspects of cultural life shared by the Belgians, regardless of what language they speak, and the differences between the main cultural communities: the Flemish people from Flanders and the French-speakers from Brussels and Wallonia — although the grouping of Brussels and Wallonia as one cultural community is sometimes rejected, for instance by the Manifesto for Walloon culture as well as certain regionalists from Brussels.

Henriette and her friends, through bartering and guile, came to travel along Elbe River in a small boat from Waldfield to Coswig, where they were accosted by Russian soldiers and taken to a displaced persons camp populated by Belgians, Dutch, and Italians.

Leopold II of Belgium | Leopold II, King of the Belgians and de facto owner of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908

In it, a competition between the Belgians and the Gauls from Armorica takes place to decide who was the bravest under the unlikely adjudication of Julius Caesar.

In modern times, from 1831 onwards the substantive title Count of Flanders has been given to younger sons of the Kings of the Belgians ().

As a result, almost all feminine adjectives are phonetically distinct from their masculine counterparts for Belgians.

As early as 1825 his name was mentioned as a possible candidate for the throne of Greece, and in February 1831 he was nominated king of the Belgians, but international considerations deterred Louis-Philippe from accepting the honour for his son, who was accompanying the French army that entered Belgium to support the new kingdom in its separation from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands ; there he took part in the siege of Antwerp.

The honor of the Belgians in this matter is not to be questioned -- only their judgment.

The Belgians were reluctant to withdraw their troops and often obstructed U.N. efforts.

Not only was his Belgian nationality interesting because of Belgium's occupation by Germany ( which provided a valid explanation of why such a skilled detective would be out of work and available to solve mysteries at an English country house ), but also at the time of Christie's writing, it was considered patriotic to express sympathy with the Belgians, since the invasion of their country had constituted Britain's casus belli for entering World War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasized the " Rape of Belgium ".

** The difference of religion between the Catholic Belgians and their Protestant Dutch king.

To this day, the Belgians are remembered for their stubborn resistance during the early days of the war, with the army-around a tenth the size of the Germany Army-holding up the German offensive for nearly a month, giving the French and British forces time to prepare for the Marne counteroffensive later in the year.

While most of the associates of Marx and Engels were German immigrants living in Brussels, some of their new associates were Belgians.

The Belgians are most supportive of their removal.

Each peasant was required to devote a certain percentage of their fields to coffee and this was enforced by the Belgians and their local, mainly Tutsi, allies.

The Belgians have been strong advocates of European integration, and most aspects of their foreign, economic, and trade policies are coordinated through the European Union ( EU ), which has its main headquarters ( the European Commission, the Council of the European Union and sessions of the European Parliament ) in Brussels.

At the same time the Belgians, perceiving their diminutive role on the international scene, are strong advocates of strengthening economic and political integration within the EU.

Recently, having federalised their own country, many Belgians view themselves as the ultimate " European federalists ".

And the Belgians, many of them devout Catholics, also erected small roadside votive chapels like those in their homeland.

Most Belgians tend to view their culture as an integral part of European or Western culture.

When Sabena was created, it was partly funded by Belgians in the Belgian Congo colony who lost their air service — an experimental passenger and cargo company ( LARA ) between Léopoldville, Lisala, and Stanleyville — a year earlier and expected the new Belgian national airline to fill this gap.

On June 6, 1945, Roosenburg and a group of Dutch people was exchanged for a group of Russian POWs ; they made their way to a Red Cross camp where they found that only the French and Belgians would be flying home ; the rest would have to wait several weeks until a truck came.

As a result of their strengthened position on the lake, the Allies started advancing towards Kigoma by land, and the Belgians established an airbase on the western shore at Albertville.

The Germans used their " Big Bertha " artillery to destroy Belgian forts in Liège, Namur, and Antwerp, but the Belgians still fought back, creating a constant threat to German supply lines in the north.

Countess Augusta is the grandmother of many notable monarchs of Europe, including both Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom ( through her mother Victoria ) and her husband, Prince Albert ( through his father Ernst ), King Consort of Portugal Ferdinand II ( through his father Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ), and also Empress Carlota of Mexico and her brother Leopold II of Belgium ( through their father Leopold I who was elected King of the Belgians on 26 June 1831.

Following that decision, the Belgians decided to alternate their Grand Prix between Zolder and a circuit at Nivelles-Baulers near Brussels.