In 1908, the Belgian parliament bowed to international pressure in order to save their last bit of prestige in Europe, forcibly adopting the Free State as a Belgian colony from the king.

He led his army through the Siege of Antwerp and the Battle of the Yser, when the Belgian army was driven back to a last, tiny strip of Belgian territory, near the North Sea.

His last minute replacement was Belgian jazz-fusion guitarist Philip Catherine.

# The name originated from the last name Veluche belonging to the French or Belgian owner of the trading post in Volusia.

For several historians, it seemed that Wallonia sprang from these strikes and likely from the last Belgian general strike the 1960-1961 Winter General Strike.

On May 27 and 28, 1940, the Belgian army lost its last stand here against the advancing Wehrmacht.

Petrova had come into the tie with two consecutive clay court tournament victories and a 10-match clay court winning streak, while Dementieva had defeated Henin in their last meeting in Indian Wells and defeated second ranked Belgian compatriot Kim Clijsters on the first day of the tie.

For the Allies, Ypres was also important because it eventually became the last major Belgian town that was not under German control.

The title was revived by the FIA after World War II, and was first given to the Belgian Grand Prix in 1947, and was distributed across several countries until the 1977 British Grand Prix, the last race to receive the honorific title.

The treaty also established Belgian neutrality, which would last until the German invasion of Belgium in 1914.

In the last decade of the 19th century increasing diplomatic and trade activity by France in Kwangtung ( now Guangdong ) Province and the granting of a concession to Belgian interests to construct a railway from Peking ( now Beijing ) to Hankow ( later extended to Canton ( now Guangzhou )), led to British diplomatic and commercial concerns about protecting Hong Kong as the major trading port for South China.

Stanley's charting of the Congo River Basin ( 1874 – 1877 ) removed the last bit of terra incognita from European maps of the continent, thereby delineating the rough areas of British, Portuguese, French, and Belgian control.

In 1994, he ordered the unilateral withdrawal of Belgian troops from Rwanda, thus lifting the last barrier to the genocide of Tutsis.

Most Belgian corporations were founded during the last century.

After a successful three-year stint, in which he managed to finish as Belgian First Division top-scorer in his last season at Lokeren, Koller was signed by Belgian giants Anderlecht.

The Belgian Grand Prix returned to Zolder in 1984, and this was the last F1 race held at the Flemish circuit with Michele Alboreto taking the final victory there.

In 2008, McLaren's Lewis Hamilton survived a frantic last two laps in a late shower of rain to win the Belgian Grand Prix.

The last Belgian elements of the field army fled westwards towards the coast on October 8 and the Germans entered the city on October 9 after having established that the defensive positions had been abandoned.

* Giancarlo Fisichella-scored the team's last pole position at the 1998 Austrian Grand Prix and last podium finish at the 2001 Belgian Grand Prix.

This would have put the Belgian army in the impossible choice of being trapped between the inundations and the German forces or abandoning the last part of unoccupied Belgium.

* 1945 – Puyi, the last Chinese emperor and ruler of Manchukuo, is captured by Soviet troops.

* 1944 – World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.

Alicante was the last city loyal to the Republican government to be occupied by dictator Franco's troops on 1 April 1939, and its harbour saw the last Republican government officials fleeing the country.

* 1865 – American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.

* 1945 – The last German troops retreat from Finland's soil in Lapland, ending the Lapland War.

In Ramillies the Allied infantry, now reinforced by the English troops brought down from the north, at last broke through.

For example, Baldrick is reduced to making coffee from mud and cooking rats, while General Melchett hatches a plan for the troops to walk very slowly toward the German lines, because " it'll be the last thing Fritz will expect.

Depending on what terms one uses to define the end, the movement extended until 1821 ( when the Spanish were expelled from mainland Chile ) or 1826 ( when the last Spanish troops surrendered and Chiloé was incorporated to the Chilean republic ).

The last country known to maintain a regiment of bicycle troops was Switzerland, who disbanded their final unit in 2003.

In the early morning of December 10, 1949, Communist troops laid siege to Chengdu, the last KMT controlled city in mainland China, where Chiang Kai-shek and his son Chiang Ching-kuo directed the defense at the Chengdu Central Military Academy.

** Nazarov was Dictator of the Don Republic ( which before, since its founding on 2 December 1917 at Novocherkassk, had been governed by a Triumvirate including the last pre-Soviet Ataman, Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin ) from 11 February 1918 till 25 February 1918 when Bolshevik troops ended their existence

The last Salvadoran troops left Iraq on January 2009 with 5 soldiers lost in their 5 and a half year involvement.

Following the liberation of Denmark and the end of World War II, the last British troops left in September 1945.

This is the last time Swedish and Danish troops meet on Swedish soil.

The Tampere City Hall was among the last strongholds of the Red troops.

The last Guinean troops were withdrawn in 1974.

The prospect for tranquility was further advanced in 1931 when Ferrera and his insurgents were killed, while leading one last unsuccessful effort to overthrow the government, after government troops discovered their hiding place in Chamelecon.

He loads them all up in his no-ship, finally leading his troops out on a last suicidal defense of Rakis, designed to attract the rage of the Honored Matres.

Shortly after Bernard Montgomery had been appointed to command II Corps, Alexander was, while still on the beachhead, placed in command of I Corps, and left the beach on the last destroyer on 3 June after ensuring that all British troops had been evacuated.

The last time that a British monarch would command troops in the field.

* 1932 – Great Depression: in Washington, D. C., troops disperse the last of the " Bonus Army " of World War I veterans.

In return, British aircraft would be able to transit through Kenya, RN ships of the East Indies Station and other units could visit Mombasa, communications facilities could be used until 1966, and troops could exercise in Kenya twice a year ( of which the last commitment continues to this day ).

He was the last emperor to lead his troops onto the battlefield.