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Belgium's industrial revolution could have been prevented and we would be a de-industrialized region could have been prevented and we would be a de-industrialized region, controlled by a filthy protestant minority in the North

https://searchinginhistory.blogspot.be/2015/03/the-industrial-revolution-of-belgium.html

After the war, Belgium continued to experience economic development. Belgium became under the control of the Netherlands and its King, William I. King William became an active supporter of domestic industries. He provided incentives in form of loans or even tax support. John, Cockerill, the son of William Cockerill, became blessed by the King’s support. Cockerill family already showed great interest in heavy industries during the early 1810’s. John Cockerill founded a steam engine factory in 1813. Year later, Cockerill entered to another industry that led to a further growth in his family’s line of businesses. After a mission sent in the late 1810’s that aimed to know the status of Britain’s iron industry, Cockerill received support from King William I to copy the large scale British iron furnaces in Belgium. He built an iron smelting plant in Serain, in Wallonia region. In the following decades, Cockerill used his steam engine factory and new iron smelting plant in order to produce ships and later, locomotives.

You re not only wrong but a bit hateful it seems.

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