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Battle of Damme May 30-31 English under William Longsword, Earl of Salisbury, sink most of fleet of France's King Philip II in the harbor of Damme.
Battle of Rio Salado October 30 Alfonso XI of Castile and Alfonso IV of Portugal defeat the Marinid under Sultan Abul-Hassan and the Granadine under King Yusuf I. Battle of Morlaix Besieged by the English, a French relief army broke the siege of Morlaix.
Battle of Rovine October 10 Mircea cel Batrin the voievod of Wallachia defeated Beyazid I, sultan of the Ottoman Empire
Meanwhile the remains of the Belgian army were stationed on the extreme left of the Allied front, having withstood severe fighting at the Battle of the Yser.
Some of the bitterest fighting of World War I took place on Belgian soil, particularly in the three battles of Ypres (1914, 1915, and 1917; see Ypres, Battles of).
In the series of engagements known as the Battle of Flanders (see Flanders, Battle of), fought in September–November 1918, British, French and Belgian armies under King Albert drove the Germans out of Belgian territory and back into Germany.
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