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    Exercise Fabius, or Operation Fabius, was a formal exercise for the Allied Operation Neptune in World War II. The other was Exercise Tiger, which had occurred...
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  • unincorporated community Fabius Township (disambiguation) Fabius River, Missouri Fabius (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse Exercise Fabius, a 1944 rehearsal for...
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    1986. Fabius was 37 years old when he was appointed and is, after Gabriel Attal, the second youngest prime minister of the Fifth Republic. Fabius was also...
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    extensive training in amphibious landings, including Exercise Fabius, a major training exercise at Hayling Island in May 1944. Demolition teams responsible...
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    the island was the location of a mock invasion during the military Exercise Fabius, rehearsing the preparations for D-Day. In 1982, the English Court...
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    Sergeant W A Greenhalgh, Army Film and Photographic Unit, with his jeep during Exercise 'Fabius', Hayling Island 6 May 1944...
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    with a full-scale simulation of the invasion carried out on 4 May in Exercise Fabius. On D-Day itself, Force J, commanded from HMS Hilary, was to bombard...
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    Exercise Tiger, or Operation Tiger was one of a series of large-scale rehearsals for the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Held in April 1944 on Slapton Sands...
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    accompanied by two flag poles either side. Part of Exercise Fabius took place a week after Exercise Tiger on Slapton Sands. Behind Slapton Sands is Slapton...
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    to Longueville. Between 3 and 8 May, the regiment participated in Exercise Fabius I at Slapton Sands, a final rehearsal before D-Day. On 11 May elements...
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    constructed by Newman, R A & Sons Ltd, Poole in 1943. HDML 1387 took part in exercise Fabius 1 in May 1944, which consisted of practise amphibious landings at Slapton...
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    its orders to mobilise, and training intensified. The last major exercise ('Fabius') was held in early May, but there were still too few Crabs: the regiment...
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    forthcoming invasion. On 4 May 1944, Thompson participated in landing exercise "Fabius", one of the many preliminaries to the landing on Normandy. On 9 May...
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  • deaths of 749 American servicemen from LSTs. 3–8 May – World War II: Exercise Fabius, the last major Allied rehearsals for the Normandy landings, take place...
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    Sherman tanks of 1st ERY parked at the side of a road in England during Exercise Fabius, May 1944....
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    removed from the notional Fourth Army's order of battle at the time of Exercise Fabius (in order to be sent into action in Normandy), British planners decided...
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    "No" side was led by deputy leader Laurent Fabius. A former prime minister of France (1984–1986), Laurent Fabius traditionally on the center right of the...
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    scandal, which saw three ministers, including then-Prime Minister Laurent Fabius, charged with manslaughter. Before that, ministers in France benefitted...
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  • market economy. In 1984, Mitterrand and his second Prime Minister, Laurent Fabius, clearly abandoned any further socialist measures. The "Union of the Left"...
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    the power to command two armies.[dubious – discuss] In 307 BC, Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus, who was consul the previous year, was elected as proconsul...
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  • Marcus Fabius Ambustus - consul Quintus Fabius Ambustus - official Marcus Fabius Buteo - consul Lucius Fabius Justus - consul Paullus Fabius Maximus...
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    Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, the senate bowed to his pressure and he received Sicily with permission to cross into Africa if he wished. Fabius' opposition...
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    increasing the number of magistrates who held imperium. In 307, Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus became the second magistrate to have his command prorogued...
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  • might have to accept the yoke. A meeting of the senate was convened by Q. Fabius, the prefect of the city. He made such a violent attack upon the proposed...
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    year the Etruscans sued for peace. The newly elected consuls for 297 BC, Fabius Rullianus and Decius Mus led both armies against Samnium, Barbatus going...
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    and expected department heads to agreeably carry out his decisions. He exercised restraint in using his veto power, writing that "I give my Signature to...
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    perhaps except in cases with a non-consular nominator. In the case of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, the people may have created him dictator directly by...
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    OCLC 39706770. The quarrel between L. Papirius Cursor and his master of horse Q. Fabius Maximus Rullianus seems [to illustrate] that the dictator's supreme power...
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    the illegal Russian annexation of Crimea. French foreign minister Laurent Fabius evaluated the deal in response to the Crimean referendum and the enactment...
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    guerrilla-style tactics in The Art of War. The 3rd century BC Roman general Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus is also credited with inventing many of the tactics of...
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