Battice
Battice is a town in the Walloon Region of Belgium , about 20 km from Aachen and Liège . The village with 4076 inhabitants (1976) has belonged to the city of Herve since the municipal merger in 1977 . Fort Battice, part of the Liège fortification ring, is located on the outskirts .
During the attack on Belgium at the beginning of World War I , Battice was largely destroyed due to retaliation by German troops. Allegedly, some villagers shot a squadron of Uhlans as snipers ( franc tireurs ) . Since the perpetrators could not be identified, the German soldiers rounded up the residents, killed 33 of them and then burned 147 houses.
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- ↑ Cf. http://www.ugrueter.ch/publikationen/publikation3_2.pdf ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 20, 2010.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ' N , 5 ° 49' E