This is the Fourteenth video in game Company of Heroes.It’s a real-time strategy video game series developed by Relic Entertainment. It’s release on 12 September, 2006. Company of Heroes: Blitzkrieg is a modification for Company of Heroes which focuses on PvP experience. It was for the first time introduced to public in 2008.
Today I’m have mission to capture ‘Friesland’. It’s Part of the Greater German Reich plan to conquer the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Blija is a village in Noardeast-Fryslân in the province of Friesland (Fryslân), the Netherlands (Nederlanden).
On May 11th 1940, the Dutch commander General Winkelman was faced with two priorities. First of all he wanted to eliminate the German airborne troops. Though the strategic assault had failed, he feared a further enemy build-up via Waalhaven and saw the German possession of the Moerdijk bridges as a serious impediment to the movement of allied reinforcements to the Fortress Holland. The second priority was closely related to the first: enabling the French army to build up a strong defensive line in North Brabant, to connect the Fortress Holland with the Allied main force in Belgium. As he had withdrawn most of his troops from the area, Winkelman had only limited means available to influence this process, largely leaving the task to local commanders. In Rotterdam, though reinforced by an infantry regiment, the Dutch failed to completely dislodge the German airborne troops from their bridgehead on the northern bank of the Maas. In North Brabant, the situation swiftly deteriorated. The French commanders of the 7th Army had expected that Dutch resistance at the Meuse and the Peel-Raam Position, by a force about five divisions strong, would have gained them at least four days to build up a defensive line near Breda. They were unpleasantly surprised to learn that the best three divisions had been moved to the north and that the remaining forces were already in full retreat. All the efforts in the south were made on the assumption the Grebbe Line would be able to beat off attacks on its own. Meanwhile, in the North, 1. Kavalleriedivision advanced through the province of Friesland towards the final Dutch fall-back line, the Wonsstelling, reaching Sneek in the evening. Most Dutch troops had been evacuated from the north over the Afsluitdijk.
Battle of the Netherlands (11 May 1940)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_invasion_of_the_Netherlands
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blije
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friesland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands
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