Editing Visé (section)

==History==
The Germans entered Belgium on 4 August 1914, and entered Visé that day as part of the opening movements of the [[Battle of Liège]].  A small group of Belgian [[Gendarmerie (Belgium)|gendarmes]] opposed the advancing Germans and two of their number, Auguste Bouko and Jean-Pierre Thill, were killed in the action becoming the first Belgian casualties of [[World War I]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arquebusiers.be/1914-bouko-thil.htm|title=Les gendarmes Auguste Bouko et Jean-Pierre Thill, premiers héros belges de 1914|first=Marc|last=Poelmans|website=Arquebusiers |access-date=18 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180830142309/http://www.arquebusiers.be/1914-bouko-thil.htm|archive-date=30 August 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> On 7 August, in the Lixhe section of the town, the German 90th Infantry Regiment killed eleven civilians and destroyed eleven houses. By 17 August 1914, forty-two civilians were killed, and 586 out of the village's 840 houses had been destroyed.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tixhon |first1=Axel |title=Villes martyres |date=2014 |publisher=Presses Universitaires de Namur |location=Namur, Belgium |isbn=978-2-87037-848-9 |page=64}}</ref>

The Lixhe part of the town was also the site of one of Belgium's ninety eastern-frontier advanced-warning posts (''postes d'alerte de la frontière est''), aimed at preventing a German invasion in 1939 – its number was "PA 0". {{cn|date=October 2021}} The [[coal mine of Hasard de Cheratte]] was dug in Cheratte and exploited between 1850 and 1977.