There are some fairly level approaches to the Meuse crossing sites there also are long stretches of steep banks bordering the channel, some of them are cliffs nearly three hundred feet high. Although rather shallow, the Meuse averages a width of 120 yards in its main course and is fed by so many streams that its current is unusually rapid, particularly in the winter season. Actually, of course, the river channel changes direction as it passes through Belgium, running south to north between Maastricht and Liège, generally following an east-west line between Liège and Namur, and bending sharply at Namur to assume a south to north orientation.
This river, throughout history, has been the natural line of resistance against an enemy advancing from east to west over the Belgian highlands.
Chapter 22-THE ARDENNES: BATTLE OF THE BULGEĪcross the western edge of the Ardennes massif runs the Meuse River.
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