few years later the family estates came into the hands of William Pont de l'Arche through marriage to Robert Maudit's daughter. Although the castle was...
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Protestant army had little hope of crossing the river Seine, as the Pont de l'Arche was watched by royalist German mercenaries. An assault on Chartres...
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province. During May Saint-Lô, Bayeux, Falaise, Vire, Lisieux, Carentan, Pont de l'Arche and Le Havre fell to Protestant rebel control. The Protestant governor...
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of the 4th GFC, Huet distinguished himself in the fighting at the Pont-de-l'Arche near Rouen on June 8–9, 1940 where his small unit succeeded in slowing...
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Charles, Duke of Mayenne (redirect from Charles de Lorraine, Duc de Mayenne)
hoped to go on to crush the main royal army which was in retreat to Pont de l'Arche, but Mayenne insisted they clear the royalist controlled forts in the...
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twelve Battles bombed a concentration of vehicles blocked at the Pont de l'Arche railway bridge south of Le Manoir, forcing German engineers repairing...
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him that Henri had lifted the siege and withdrew in the direction of Pont-de-l'Arche to entrench there.; Rouen was saved. Rather than follow Farnese's advice...
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Operation Paula 3 June 1940 France None Germany Victory Battle of Pont-de-l'Arche 9 June 1940 France None Germany Defeat Italian invasion of France...
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Périgueux area, notably at Sept Fonts (right bank), Croix du Duc, Gour de l'Arche, Jambes, Petit-Puy-Rousseau, Toulon, and north of the Tourny alleys. The...
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Priory + Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1128-9(1133), by William de Pont de l'Arche(d'Arch), chamberlain and sheriff of Hampshire, with the assistance...
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World War II, American pilot Lt. Billie D. Harris died after crashing in combat near the town (deliberately avoiding houses and causing no victims among...
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being heavily engaged in the defence of bridges crossing the Seine at Pont-de-l'Arche. These battalions eventually reached Cherbourg and Saint-Nazaire, and...
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engineers of the Ninth Air Force IX Engineering Command began construction of a combat Advanced Landing Ground outside of the town. Declared operational on 18...
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Ruddy) in France. The 32-year-old from Newry, County Down was found at Pont-de-l’Arche, near Rouen in northern France in May 2017. 14 May: the INLA claimed...
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