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Oct 17, 2026

The Old Front Line

Questions and Answers Episode 61

Oct 17 · 1 Mention

Paul ReedHOST

42:53

The Germans blew that up.

Paul ReedHOST

42:55

At Zeebrugge, there was a big St George's memorial to the British operation there in 1918, an obvious symbol of Britain.

Paul ReedHOST

43:02

The Germans blew that up as well.

Paul ReedHOST

43:04

At Mons-en-Pévèle, just outside Péronne, there was the Second Australian Division Memorial there that was a big bronze statue of an Australian soldier, a Digger, with his foot on the neck of an Imperial German eagle, bayoneting it in the belly.

Habits and Hustle

Episode 595: Peter Crone: Rewiring Limiting Beliefs for More Confidence, Freedom, and Better Relationships

Oct 13 · 1 Mention

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Peter CroneGUEST

5:34

And then, so it was me and my dad, and then at 17, so 10 years later, he went to work.

Peter CroneGUEST

5:38

He works on the boats that go between Dover and England, uh, Dover and France, and Dover being the southeast part of England, and then Dover and, uh, Zeebrugge, which is in Belgium.

Peter CroneGUEST

5:47

So they're ferry liners that carry cargo to people and with caravans going on vacation, whatever.

Jennifer CohenHOST

5:52

Yeah.

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America's Part-Henry J. Reilly

Oct 13 · 1 Mention

Ted LinhartNARRATOR

73:19

Just before this change took place, Marshal Haig had proposed that the French take over some of the southern part of the British line so that he could have more British troops to use in an attack which he wanted to make in the north near Ypres.

Ted LinhartNARRATOR

73:34

After this attack was over, he proposed that the French take over still more of the British line in the south so that he could attack in the north in Belgium for the purpose of capturing the ports of Ostend and Zeebrugge.

Ted LinhartNARRATOR

73:49

The British proposition meant that instead of a combined attack being made against the German army, the French were to subordinate their actions to a British attack which had for its purpose not the destruction of the German army but the capture of seaports being used by the German submarines.

Ted LinhartNARRATOR

74:07

In other words, the strategy on the western front was to be twisted from its proper purpose of winning the war through the destruction of the German army to the minor purpose of capturing enemy naval bases in order to help suppress the submarines which were operating in the waters around England.

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Pyrotechnics The History and Art of Firework Making-Alan St. Hill Brock

Oct 12 · 2 Mentions

Larry WilsonNARRATOR