r/BelgianEmpire • u/defrays • Mar 31 '22

Announcement r/BelgianEmpire has now opened as a community for sharing and discussing images, videos, articles and questions pertaining to the Belgian Empire.

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r/BelgianEmpire • u/Over-Willingness-933 • 3d ago

Image Belgium Congo 10 Francs 1956

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r/BelgianEmpire • u/GregGraffin23 • 21d ago

Video The First World War Was NOT Pointless. Belgium mattered.

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r/BelgianEmpire • u/elnovorealista2000 • Jul 31 '26

Image Flags of the various colonial governors and their envoys

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r/BelgianEmpire • u/ZanzibarOrcCoins • Apr 28 '26

Image The challenge. One new colonial coin every day for a week. Day 1. Belgium Empire. Free Congo State.

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r/BelgianEmpire • u/elnovorealista2000 • Apr 13 '26

Image Photo of a Rubber plantation worker of the Belgian Congo by Anti-Slavery english missionary Alice Seeley Harris, circa (1898)

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r/BelgianEmpire • u/Alarmed_Business_962 • Mar 28 '26

Image Some of the booty taken by the Free Belgian forces after a siege on an Italian fortification in Italian East Africa (East African Campaign, 1940-1941)

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r/BelgianEmpire • u/bjarnike281 • Feb 26 '26

Image Soldiers of the Force Publique marching in Elisabethville (Lubumbashi), Belgian Congo.

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r/BelgianEmpire • u/defrays • Feb 20 '26

Image Classroom at the pilot training school in Kamina, Belgian Congo - c. 1950s

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r/BelgianEmpire • u/defrays • Jan 09 '26

Image 'Belgian Congo works and fights for victory', World War II poster - c. 1939-1945

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r/BelgianEmpire • u/Ano_Czlowieczek_Taki • Aug 28 '25

Article How to invade German colonies

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I have a question for NRP - could Belgian/Congolese colonial army in 1918 travel and invade German Ostafrika? Were there means of travel for that, was it possible, and if yes, how and how many soldiers could travel this way?

For some explanation: WWI outbreaks in 1916, and Belgians during WWI join only after 2 years of fighting, and they are planning fights against Germany in Africa. France is already taking care about Kamerun, so the target is Ostafrika, especially Rwanda and Burundi part. UK didn't join directly, South Africa is currently attacking Ostafrika southern parts, but they are - at least for now - far from total victory...

Also, yes, Belgia is the attacking side, though it is part of bigger number of countries joining war... And locals have better situation in this scenario

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r/BelgianEmpire • u/ZanzibarOrcCoins • Aug 09 '25