But other cities and towns of Belgium were not as fortunate as Brussels and Ghent in escaping damage and destruction.

Submission of Ghent to the Duke of Burgundy after its forces had been defeated at Gaveren.

An agreement finally was reached whereby the Germans should go around Ghent on condition that all Belgian troops should evacuate the city, the civic guard be disarmed, their weapons surrendered, and the municipal authorities should supply the Germans with specified quantities of provisions and other supplies.

The German commander at first was furious with anger and threatened Ghent with the same punishment he had meted out to the other places where Germans were fired on.

He next manoeuvred with great ability, and succeeded in making his way into the province of Flanders, took Ghent by assault, and soon reduced Bruges, Ypres, and Ostend.

All kinds of civilians set out towards Brussels and Ghent for refuge.

Van Artevelde held supreme power in Ghent and Flanders for nine yearsthe golden age of Flemish commerceand was treated on equal terms by Edward, who stopt at Ghent as his guest for considerable periods.

They started in Ghent under the Belgian Red Cross with a party of four surgeons, five women, and three men for the stretchers, and two chauffeurs to drive the two ambulances.

Owing to the congested condition of the roads Mr. Johnson was unable to reach Ghent until Thursday morning.

The duke leaves Ghent within a day or two.

The struggle grew violent between the count and the communes of Flanders with Ghent at their head.

We hoped now to be able to push on faster, and to reach Ghent before midnight, for it is only a little over twenty miles by the direct road.

She made her début at Ghent in 1820, and in Brussels in 1821, with water-colors and pastels, and some of her miniatures figured in the various exhibitions at Brussels between 1830 and 1848, and in Ghent between 1835 and 1838.

Vice-Consul Van Hee instantly recognized the extremely grave consequences which might result to Ghent from this encounter, which had taken place within an hour after the burgomaster had assured the German commander that there were no Belgian soldiers in the city.

By the 24th of September the roadway was sufficiently opened to permit a camp to be established upon the experimental line traced by the United States and British surveyors in the year 1817, when an attempt was made to mark this portion of the boundary between the two countries agreeably to the provisions of the treaty of Ghent of 1815.

At one time when driving from Ghent toward Brussels with Julius Van Hee, the acting Consul-General of the United States at Ghent, we passed a little hillock of ground upon which was a small square slab of stone, topped by a pair of stickshardly more than sticksin the shape of a cross.