" [Footnote 115: "Von Lüttich bis Flandern" ("From Liége to Flanders"), by Wilhelm Kotzde.

All the internal differences are being dished up to convince the inhabitants of Flanders that they will be much better off under the German heel.[150] [Footnote 149: Dr. Karl Knetsch: "Des Hauses Hessen Ansprüche auf Brabant" ("The House of Hesse's Claims to Brabant").

In a work already cited the following passages occur, in addition to three whole chapters intended to supply historical proof that Flanders is by the very nature of things a part of the German Empire.

[Footnote 151: Wilhelm Kotzde: "Von Lüttich bis Flandern" ("From Liége into Flanders").

But when progress is announced in Flanders, when a single square yard of earth is captured by our brave troops in the Ypres district, then all Germany is beside herself with pure joy.

The seventy millions know only too well, that everything depends upon the development of events in Flanders, as to when and how, we shall force England to her knees.

May God grant that in the peace negotiations we shall hear much more and good tidings about Flanders.

There were few among the prisoners I had any desire to companion withonly two, as I recall nowa law clerk from Sussex, a rather bright young fellow, but full of strange notions, and an older man, who had seen service in Flanders.

In the London Magazine Lamb had written "Earl of Flanders," which he altered to "Earl of Cornwall" in Elia.

I hope that you do not mind sharing' a sleeper with me?" "I should be proud to share with you the measliest dug-out in a Flanders graveyard," replied the Colonel emphatically.

Though it was true, she said, that the Count and Countess de Provence had gone to Flanders, they had only taken that course to avoid interfering with the relays which were required by the king, and had intended to rejoin him at Montmédy.

Flanders, the regiment of, arrives at Versailles.

Charles, Earl of Flanders, being assassinated during the celebration of divine service, King Lewis immediately put the young prince in possession of that country, to which he had pretensions in the right of his grandmother Matilda, wife to the Conqueror.

He was killed in a skirmish with the Landgrave of Alsace, his competitor for Flanders; and his death put an end, for the present, to the jealousy and inquietude of Henry.

Hostilities were first commenced by the Counts of Flanders and Boulogne on the frontiers of Normandy.

The Flemings, who were mostly weavers and artificers, (for manufactures were now beginning to be established in Flanders,) were broken in an instant, ten thousand of them were put to the sword, the Earl of Leicester was taken prisoner, and the remains of the invaders were glad to compound for a safe retreat into their own country.

Richard imagined that he had now found an opportunity of gaining great advantages over his rival, by forming an alliance with the Counts of Flanders, Toulouse, Boulogne, Champagne, and other considerable vassals of the crown of France

The alliances which Richard had formed with the Earl of Flanders [e], and other potent French princes, though they had not been very effectual, still subsisted, and enabled John to defend himself against all the efforts of his enemy.

He saw that Flanders was enriched by industry, and England and Holland made powerful by a navy, while Spain and Portugal languished and declined with all their mines of gold and silver.

In 1667, with an immense army, he undertook the conquest of Flanders, with no better excuse than Frederic II.

Flanders had done nothing to warrant this outrage, was unprepared for war, and was a weak state, but rich and populous, with fine harbors, and flourishing manufactures.

The conquest of all Flanders might have been the work of a single campaign, for no city offered a stubborn resistance; but the war was prolonged for another year, that Louis might more easily take possession of Franche-Comté,a poor province, but fertile in soil, well peopled, one hundred and twenty miles in length and sixty in breadth.

Vaster preparations were made for this war than that against Flanders, five years before.

Jane of Flanders, Countess of Montfort, the most extraordinary woman of her time, resided here, during the imprisonment of her husband in the palace of the Louvre, by Philippe de Valois, when Edward the Third of England invaded France.

The British campaign in France and Flanders, 1917.