After the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, the Austrian Empire went to war with Serbia.
However during World War I with the Battle of Liège in full swing and Vienna representing the enemy, Paris' cafés started renaming the dessert café liégeois in honour of Belgium's embattled forts.
The Liège Medal was awarded to the military defenders of the city of Liège who took part in the Battle of Liège.
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It was first issued in April 1920 during a large ceremony presided by the Duke of Brabant (the future King Leopold III) and Lieutenant General the Count Gérard-Mathieu Leman, military commander of the defence of Liège during the battle which raged from the 5th to the 16th of August 1914.
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