Leopold II succeeded his dad as King of the Belgians in this year that also marked the end of a war in the U.S.
He was the second child of the reigning Belgian monarch, 
Leopold I, and his ... As Leopold's older brother, also named Louis Philippe, had 
died the year ... During the Franco-Prussian War, he managed to preserve 
Belgium's... [DOC] [TLE] Belgian Congo - Wikipedia [PAR] The Belgian Congo was a Belgian colony in Central Africa between 1908 and 
1960 in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).