Belgian Theatre (In Frederick's Fields)

The Belgian Theatre was the front ocurring in the country of Belgium, between that nation (with aid from Germany, the United Kingdom and Luxembourg) and the Drumontian Kingdom of France invading it after intervention in the. Arguably starting before the start of the Great War itself (many historians claim the battle started in April 10 of 1915, during the, two days before the first declaration of war), the Belgian Theatre was the first of the theatres of the Great War, and one of the longest-lasting ones, with the surrender of Joseph Joffre not comming until almost the end of 1917. The Belgian government, invaded by the French in April, abandoned its official neutrality when the United Kingdom and Germany came to its aid.

French positions hoped to march past the Meuse and into Brusells quite easily, hoping that the heavily forested Ardennes would slow down German incursion into the region. However, the French did not make preparations for either the British Expeditionary Force, which made a landing at Ostende and crushed troops coming into Belgium from Dunkerque, establishing the border in the area. The French were forced into a sandstill across the Meuse, all the way to the sea until slightly behind Dunkerque, but were slowly forced back by British and German pressure (and the consistent reorganisation of troops westwards as the British began landings on the Atlantic coast) until the end of the war. The French were forced to withdraw to a small pocket around Florennes by the end of the war, until they surrendered in December 6. The disastrous invasion of Belgium eventually would lead to the invasion of Continental France, as most troops coming into French territory until 1919 came almost exclusively from Belgium, as the front of Alsace was far more hard-fought.

Drumont's Invasion Strategy
Drumont expected a quick invasion of Belgium, with Belgium's small defences being hit hardly by the French war machine, and the divided population of the south rising up in favour of France, hoping for a fall of Wallonia in weeks. The French expected that the British could be held off through their air force, vastly superior to the British one, and the Germans would be bogged down in the Ardennes; by the time they got to Belgium Drumont expected that the French troops would be well established in the territory, and already well fortified throughotu Belgium. France wished for a war of attrition that would eventually lead in a negotiated peace granting France whatever it was able to seize, which probably would be most of, if not all of, Belgium.