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...northward from the French border had time to reach prepared Belgian positions along the Albert Canal from Antwerp to Liége, a swift and fierce German drive cracked the Liége defenses the second day. *Headquarters watched the progress of German columns up the Meuse Valley towards Namur and westward towards Louvain...
...they heard at German headquarters that to counter this success Allied Generalissimo Maurice Gustave Gamelin rushed reserves to Namur from Sedan and Montmédy they doubtless shook hands with one another in elation. Soon their map recorded another push. In the rough and wooded Ardennes, German spearheads crushed the Belgian Chasseurs and drove straight at the Maginot Extension below Sedan. They made a dent, the dent was widened to a pocket. The pocket became a bulge when other columns crushed through: below Namur near Dinant, Givet, Mèziéres; above Namur at Gembloux. Flinging power behind power...
...Nazi scythe swept westward be tween Sedan and Namur it threatened to cut the supply and communication lines to Paris of the Belgians, British and French on the Plain of Flanders, threatened to cut them off from France. One day having fought and held Louvain against Nazi attacks, the British next day turned and retired with their Belgian allies. They also withdrew from Brussels, from Antwerp...
Sunday night and Monday the situation grew even more critical. "Extremely serious," admitted a London military spokesman. In Berlin "greatest joy" prevailed among the German General Staff. Action on the 80-mile front from Liege through Namur to Sedan, said they, made the Polish campaign look like a "weak prelude." Then came the news that the whole of the Ardennes Forest was in German hands, and that the fighting in the Arlons-Longwy section had resulted...
From Liege up the Meuse to Namur and down through the hills into the rough, forested Ardennes, ran fort systems calculated to hold the mass invader until mass help arrived. From Antwerp through Louvain to Namur ran another line of forts, completed in the last seven months. And across the Belgian hills for 100 miles ran a flexible wall of heavy steel fence set on rollers, calculated to enmesh all tank advances until defensive cannon could demolish them. In 1914, King Albert had to withdraw his forces from Liege after twelve days, first to Brussels, which fell in another four...