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    The Army of Flanders (Spanish: Ejército de Flandes Dutch: Leger van Vlaanderen) was a multinational army in the service of the kings of Spain that was...
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    The Fifth Battle of Ypres, also called the Advance in Flanders and the Battle of the Peaks of Flanders (French: Bataille des Crêtes de Flandres) is an...
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  • United States Army, where he served as an X-ray technician.[citation needed] After his service with the United States Army ended, Flanders began his acting...
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    Dutch-speaking part of the Kingdom of Belgium. It contains within it the original core of the old county, West Flanders and East Flanders, plus three more...
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    major role in the Eighty Years' War (opposite the Spanish Army of Flanders) and in the wars of the Grand Alliance with France after 1672. Despite the fact...
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    line ends with "grow" instead of "blow", as discussed under Publication:                  In Flanders Fields     In Flanders Fields, the poppies blow          Between...
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  • comprised just 8% of the army by 1573). Alba introduced Spanish (Castilian) as the language of communication in the Army of Flanders, and Spaniards received...
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    the capital being Brussels. The Army of Flanders was given the task of defending the territory. The Imperial fiefs of the former Burgundian Netherlands...
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    took command of the Army of Flanders during his time in Government over the Habsburg Netherlands. In 1688, Gastañaga's Army of Flanders numbered 25,539...
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    having married. José de Fuenmayor y Dávila, Knight of Calatrava, captain of cavalry in the Army of Flanders, also died without having married. María Lucía...
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