Why Belgium Split from the Netherlands Belgium wasn’t always a separate country. For 15 years, it was forced to share a crown with the Netherlands—but cultural clashes, unfair power dynamics, and a dramatic uprising changed history forever. Discover how Belgium gained its independence in 1830, and why it took nearly a decade for the Dutch to accept it. #BelgiumHistory #DutchHistory #HistoryTok #EuropeanHistory #1830Revolution #LowCountries | The Dutch Archeologist

Ten members of Australia's Federation Guard have spent the week leading up to Anzac Day 2018 in Ypres, Belgium supporting headstone rededication ceremonies and Last Post services at the Menin Gate memorial. Members of the guard also had to opportunity to tour some of the battlefields of World War I and the numerous cemeteries around Ypres. More than 295,000 Australians served between March 1916 and November 1918 with the Australian Imperial Force on the Western Front; 46,000 remain there. On Anz