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Mons Memorial Museum

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Mons Memorial Museum
Mons Memorial Museum
Mons Memorial Museum
Mons Memorial Museum
Mons Memorial Museum
Mons Memorial Museum
Mons Memorial Museum
Mons Memorial Museum
Mons Memorial Museum
Mons Memorial Museum
Mons Memorial Museum
Mons Memorial Museum
Mons Memorial Museum
Mons Memorial Museum
Mons Memorial Museum
Mons Memorial Museum
Mons Memorial Museum
Mons Memorial Museum
Mons Memorial Museum
Mons Memorial Museum
Mons Memorial Museum
Mons Memorial Museum
Mons Memorial Museum
Mons Memorial Museum
Phone:
+32 65 40 53 38

Hours:
Sunday10am - 6pm
MondayClosed
Tuesday10am - 6pm
Wednesday10am - 6pm
Thursday10am - 6pm
Friday10am - 6pm
Saturday10am - 6pm


The Battle of Mons was the first major action of the British Expeditionary Force in the First World War. It was a subsidiary action of the Battle of the Frontiers, in which the Allies clashed with Germany on the French borders. At Mons, the British Army attempted to hold the line of the Mons–Condé Canal against the advancing German 1st Army. Although the British fought well and inflicted disproportionate casualties on the numerically superior Germans, they were eventually forced to retreat due both to the greater strength of the Germans and the sudden retreat of the French Fifth Army, which exposed the British right flank. Though initially planned as a simple tactical withdrawal and executed in good order, the British retreat from Mons lasted for two weeks and took the BEF to the outskirts of Paris before it counter-attacked in concert with the French, at the Battle of the Marne.
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