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when Belgium and the Netherlands had both proclaimed their neutrality and most observers anticipated a drawn out conflict on the continent as there had been between 1914-18

engraved by Pieter van den Keere

as often were the coats of arms of distinguished local historical figures

ruined by their greed

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