Dixmude
a small town in the north of Belgium, about ten miles S. of Ostend and equally distant, in a northerly direction, from Ypres. It was the center of that little portion of the western edge of Belgium which the Belgian army was able to hold after the invasion of their country by the Germans, in the latter part of 1914, and was the center of a continuous struggle that lasted during DIZFUL the entire war. The Belgians were firmly intrenched here, and Dixmude was the center of the heaviest of the German artillery and infantry attacks. One of the biggest engagements fought on this sector was that which began on July 31, 1917, when the British and French forces launched their offensive against the Germans on a twenty-mile front, extending from Dixmude to Warneton, to the south, and which resulted in a notable victory, ten towns and 5,000 prisoners being captured during the first day.