Battle of Dinant
{'<entity_0>': 'Battle of Dinant', '<entity_1>': 'World War I', '<entity_2>': '23 August 1914', '<entity_3>': 'Belgium', '<entity_4>': 'Dinant', '<entity_5>': 'battle'}
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The <entity_0> was an engagement fought by French and German forces in and around the Belgian town of <entity_4> in the <entity_1>, during the German invasion of <entity_3>. The French Fifth Army and the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) advanced into <entity_3> and fought the Battle of Charleroi (21 August–<entity_2>) and Battle of Mons (<entity_2>), from the Meuse crossings in the east, to Mons in the west. On 15 <entity_2>, German troops captured the Citadel of <entity_4> which overlooked the town; the citadel was recaptured by a French counter-attack during the afternoon. On <entity_2>, the Germans attacked <entity_4> again, under the impression that the town was full of francs-tireurs (free shooters; terrorists to the Germans) and massacred 674 unarmed Belgian civilians, while fighting the French, who were dug in along the west bank and on the east end of the bridge. Before the <entity_5>, the Mayor of <entity_4> urged the population to not take part in the fighting and forbade manifestations in support of the Allies. The 5th Cavalry Division and the Guard Cavalry Division advanced through Luxembourg and entered <entity_3> on 10 August, with orders to advance 60 km (37 mi) north-west to <entity_4> and then scout the Meuse as far as the French border near Givet. At 4:50 a.m. on <entity_2>, in a thick fog, 57 German artillery batteries began to bombard <entity_4>. On 24 August, the area of <entity_4> south of the bridge, which had not been attacked on <entity_2>, was systematically burned down by the Germans.
['war crime', 'battle']