BelgiumOmond, George W. T. (George William Thomson)
History
Belgium
Omond, George W. T. (George William Thomson)
Belgium -- Description and travel
'Tower of London,' at Bruges, 78
Tragedy of the Passion, 201
Trauttmansdorff, 215
Treaty of Campo Formio, 264;
of Münster
of Utrecht, 262, 263
Treaty of Ryswick, 370
Trève de Dieu, 287
Trèves, 358
Tribunal de Paix, 287, 288, 291
Tricaria, Bishop of, 304
Truchses, Gérard, 255, 335
Turner, Sir James, 67, 70
Turnhout, 176
Twelve Years' Truce, 256, 337
Urban VI., 93
Ursol, Duc d', 221
Utrecht, Peace of, 371;
Treaty of, 262, 263
Valois, Philip of, 56
Van der Noot, 214 _et seq._, 222
Van Eyck, 14, 21, 49, 60, 129
Vanity Fair, 228
Vauban, 370;
fortifies Ypres, 91, 99, 100
Verdun, Henri de, 287
Verhaeren, M., Belgian poet, 144
Victoria, Queen, at Bruges, 72
Vienna, Congress of, 101, 225
Vieux Bourg, Rue du, 7, 9, 10
Villeroi, attacks Brussels, 196 _et seq._
Virgin and Child, Statue of, at Bruges, 26
Voltaire, 354
Vonck, 217, 218
Walburge, Ste., Church of, at Bruges, 78;
at Furnes, 110, 154
Walcheren, 61
Walcheren Expedition, 264
Walloons, industrious character of, 275, 367
Warfusée, Count of, 342, 343 _et seq._
War of the Cow, 292, 293, 295, 369
War of the Spanish Succession, 370
Waterloo, 231, 232; Battle of, 32, 101
Waulsort, 274
Weavers, Guild of, 41
Wellington, Duke of, 226, 228, 232, 234
Wencelas, 182, 186
Wenduyne, 131, 135
Westcapelle, 51
Westende, village, 120, 124;
Plage, 138, 139, 141, 142-144
Weyden, Roger van der, 188
Wild Boar of Ardennes, 313-321, 373
Wilhelmshöhe, 374
William, Bishop of Ancona, 31
William III., 196, 207
William of Orange, 329
Worms, Diet of (1495), 323
Wounded Eagle Monument at Waterloo, 232
York, Duke of, at Bruges, 66 _et seq._
Ypres, 91-107;
field preaching near, 97;
churches sacked, 97;
taken by Parma, 97;
by the Protestants, 97;
Place du Musée, 98;
besieged by Louis XIV., 99;
fortified by Vauban, 91, 99-101;
ceded to France, 99;
described by Vauban in 1689, 100;
taken by the French in 1794, 100;
during the Hundred Days, 101;
end of military history, 101;
Grand Place and Cloth Hall, 102;
monopoly of weaving linen, 104;
manages with Bruges the Hanseatic League in Flanders, 104;
the Nieuwerck, 103;
riots at, 105, 106;
siege of, by English, 92 _et seq._;
John of Ypres describes early Bruges, 8, 9
Ypres, 173, 175, 177, 244
Yser, 119, 120
Zoutman, Lambert, 361
Zutphen, Battle of, 255
Zuyder Zee, 132
Zwijn, 10, 52, 54, 55, 61
BILLING AND SONS, LTD., PRINTERS, GUILDFORD
[Illustration: _Sketch Map of BELGIUM and part of HOLLAND_
ACCOMPANYING 'BELGIUM,' BY A. FORESTIER AND G. W. T. OMOND. (A. AND C.
BLACK.)]
ALL WITH FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR
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