battleofhaelenanddiest

Wow -- just like the Maginot line. All the enemy had to do was go around it.

Battle now pinpointed:

Cropped from original Agence Meurisse photo shown at Bibliotheque Nationale de France's Gallica site, with following caption:
"En Belgique : combats de Haelen et de Diest : barrage sur la route de Liège "
[In Belgium: Battle of Haelen and Diest: Barricade on the road to Liège]



Pub. Date 1914

Interesting... those are obviously the same shot, yet Bain's has a copyright scrawl on it. I guess attribution was a problem a hundred years ago, too.

maybe they purchased U.S. rights or something?

Cool

I want some of those things !

This is a cropped version of an Agence Meurisse photo on the Gallica site, with the caption En Belgique : combats de Haelen et Diest : équipements de cavalerie allemande pris par les Belges [In Belgium: Battle of Haelen and Diest: German cavalry equipment taken by the Belgians] gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9041343h Publication date 1914

artolog: Thanks for pointing us to the original. We'll include the date and full, translated title next time we update the description.

Cropped from original Agence Meurisse photo shown at Bibliotheque Nationale de France's Gallica site, with following caption:
"En Belgique : combats de Haelen et de Diest : dans un village près de diest, vérification d'identité "
[In Belgium: Battle of Haelen and Diest: In a village near Diest, verifying identity]





Pub. Date 1914