Six weeks at the war / by Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland.

  • Sutherland, Millicent Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of, 1867-1955.
Date:
1914
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Credit: Six weeks at the war / by Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GAZETTEER OF TOWNS MENTIONED. AIX-LA-CHAPELLE Known in Oerman as AACHEN. A town and watering place of Western Prussia, situated between, the Meuse and the Rhine in the Rhine province, forty-four miles west south-west from Cologne, on the line of railway from Cologne to Liege. Although situated in German territory, Aix is practi- cally the point of junction of the German, Belgian, and Dutch frontiers, and is a town of considerable importance, with a popula- tion of nearly 150,000. Its thermal baths are widely celebrated^ and it is one of the great Customs stations of Western Germany, Two treaties of peace have been signed here—the first in 1688, the second in 1748. ANTWERP.—Capital of the Belgian province of the same name, situated about fifty miles from the sea and twenty-five miles north of Brussels by rail, on the right bank of the River Scheldt. It is one of the chief European ports, over sixty shipping lines having their headquarters here, and the quay accommoda- tion extends nearly three miles along the bank of the river. The total population is about 400,000. Antwerp is surrounded by a ring of forts of modern design, the strongest line being that toward the east and south, where eight forts, placed at regular intervals, less than a mile distant from each other, defend the city. In addition to the regular ring of defences, the forts de Wavre and de Waelhem, in the south-east, and Port de Schooten, in the north-east, form outpost defences. On the west forts St. Marie, St. Philippe, de Zwyndrecht, and de Cruybeke, defend the