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Léo Major DCM & Bar (January 23, 1921 – October 12, 2008) was a Canadian soldier who was the only Canadian and one of only three soldiers in the British Commonwealth to receive the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) twice in separate wars.
Zwolle (Dutch: ⓘ) is a city and municipality in the Northeastern Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of Overijssel and the province's second-largest municipality, after Enschede , and has a population of 132,441 as of December 2023.
Map of the liberation of North Brabant and Dutch Zeeland (Battle of the Scheldt). This is a chronological overview of the dates at which the liberation by the Allies in World War II took place of a number of Dutch cities and towns.
The battle was militarily defined by the Allies as the Ardennes Counteroffensive, which included the German drive and the American effort to contain and later defeat it. The phrase 'Battle of the Bulge' was coined by contemporary press to describe the way the Allied front line bulged inward on wartime news maps. [43] [44]
Music festival on Liberation Day 2008 in Zwolle. Liberation Day (Dutch: Bevrijdingsdag [bəˈvrɛidɪŋzˌdɑx] ⓘ) is a public holiday in the Netherlands to mark the end of the Nazi occupation of the country during the Second World War. [1] [2] It follows the Remembrance of the Dead (Dodenherdenking) on 4 May. [3] [4]
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo (at that time in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium), marking the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The French Imperial Army under the command of Napoleon I was defeated by two armies of the Seventh Coalition.
In 1600, Albert lost the Battle of Nieuwpoort against Anglo-Dutch forces, and so in 1601, Philip III of Spain sent the Genoan Ambrogio Spinola to the Netherlands, who helped Albert in besieging and finally capturing Ostend after a 3 year long siege that resulted in more than 100.000 people either killed, wounded or captured. [1]
The Battle of Grolle (Dutch: Slag om Grolle) is a regular historical reenactment of the siege of the fortified border town of Groenlo (formerly known as Grol or Grolle) in the Achterhoek in 1627 during the Dutch Revolt. It is held in and around Groenlo itself every two years.