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    eventually covered a third of the commune of Bercy, which was absorbed into Paris in 1860. It was the location of the Barrière de Bercy, a gate built for the...
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    Thomas. Guy de Rambaud also wrote that "the bataillon des Filles-Saint-Thomas, bataillon des Petits-Pères, bataillon de Henri IV and bataillon des Grands...
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    year, he participated in actions at de Nador, de Moursia and confronted the Flittas. Designated as chef de bataillon (commandant – major) on 22 May 1842...
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    Guard) Detachment from Bataillon de la Commune de Paris (National Guard) 1st Brigade 2éme Régiment de Dragons (Condé) Bataillon de Grenadiers Nationaux...
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    Franco-Prussian War (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Jacques (1995). Paris Insurgé: La Commune de 1871. Paris: Gallimard. ISBN 978-2-07-053289-6. Rougerie, Jacques (2014). La Commune de 1871. Paris: Presses Universitaires...
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    Armée de Vichy [fr], Commandant Chaumont of the 20th bataillon de chasseurs alpins [fr] began to structure the local Organisation de résistance de l'armée...
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    Jacques Chirac. Bataillon de Marche n°2 13th Foreign Legion Demi-Brigade Bataillon d’Infanterie de Marine et du Pacifique Régiment de marche du Tchad...
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    regiment under the designation of 4e bataillon de dragons portés 1948 : 4e Régiment de dragons portés 1950 : 4e Régiment de dragons 1954 : dissolution of the...
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    Army Combined Arms Center. Retrieved 4 July 2021. Les bataillons de volontaires et de réquisitions de l'Ariège (1791–1803) Chartrand, pp. 11, 36–37 Duncan...
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    convicts included many Communards, arrested after the failed Paris Commune of 1871, including Henri de Rochefort and Louise Michel. Between 1873 and 1876, 4...
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    parachutiste de choc, 11e RPC (11th Shock Parachute Regiment), colloquially called "11e Choc," and in the 1er Bataillon Parachutiste de Choc, 1er BPC...
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    bataillon de la Garde nationale". L'Humanité. March 25, 2021. Retrieved November 13, 2022. Rikst Maria Catharina van der Schoor (2022). "La Commune au...
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    then the 1er Régiment de Fusiliers Marins 1e RFM at the corps of the 1st Free French Division (1er DFL) and the 1er Bataillon de Fusiliers Marins Commandos...
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    such, it was adopted by the Paris Commune in 1871, albeit with new lyrics under the title La Marseillaise de la Commune. Eight years later, in 1879,...
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    Kasprzyk". Ekablog. 24 May 2013. d'Arbois de Jubainville (1858, p. 349) Bataillon, Marcel (1949). "VI. L'histoire littéraire". Annales. Economies, sociétés...
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    Fougères (category Communes of Ille-et-Vilaine)
    French painter Julien Le Blant's (1851–1933) most famous work Le Bataillon Carré, Affaire de Fougères 1793, which won a Gold Medal in the Exposition Universelle...
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    promoted lieutenant in 1848, and to captain in 1851. He became chef de bataillon in 1856, and served in the Second Italian War of Independence, being...
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    and soon promoted to chef de bataillon; he was again wounded while fighting at Champigny-sur-Marne during the Siege of Paris. Subsequently, Boulanger was...
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    Polytechnicians even found themselves on the side of the Versaillese when the Paris Commune was crushed in 1871. During the years 1871–1872, the number of students...
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    Régiment étrangers de parachutistes) of the Legion. "History of the 2e REP, 2nd Foreign Parachute Battalion,2e Bataillon Etranger de Parachutistes", Official...
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    Achille Ballière (category People of the Paris Commune)
    who fought in the Franco-Prussian War, as part of the 173e bataillon. During the Paris Commune, he supported the Freemason attempt at mediation. However...
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    Baccarat, Meurthe-et-Moselle (category Communes of Meurthe-et-Moselle)
    and charcoal. The commune has many sites that are registered as historical monuments: The Berthelon Gasworks at 28 Rue du 20e Bataillon (1909) The Gasworks...
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    Bernières-sur-Mer (category Communes of Calvados (department))
    guns of the 14th Canadian Field Regiment, RCA, to engage troops of the Bataillon II./Grenadier-Regiment 736, who garrisoned the town's fortified 'Resistance...
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    Graye-sur-Mer (category Communes of Calvados (department))
    the 'volunteered' soldiers of Ost-Bataillon 441. Ost-Bataillon 441. (Ukrainian) Stab: Southwest of Ver-sur-Mer: At de Mars-Fontaine (KVU-Gr Meuvaines Defence...
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    François-Louis Crosnier (category Directors of the Paris Opera)
    playwriting for other endeavours. Chef de bataillon in the Garde nationale at Pantin, he became managing director of the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin (1830-1832)...
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  • Binant Series (category Paris Commune)
    wake of the Siege of Paris. 13 artists were involved, producing a precious record of the recent Franco-Prussian War and Paris Commune, first exhibited in...
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    Marine Infantry Battalion (French: 1er Bataillon d'Infanterie de Marine) and the Pacific Battalion (French: Bataillon du Pacifique). 1813: German Campaign...
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    Battle of Verdun (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Beaumont-en-Auge and Ornes. Driant was killed, fighting with the 56th and 59th Bataillons de chasseurs à pied and only 118 of the Chasseurs managed to escape. Poor...
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    Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, Calvados (category Communes of Calvados (department))
    Lieutenant Gustav Pflochsch - Kompanie 5. / Grenadier-Regiment 736./ Bataillon II. The crew-served weapon shelters were linked by both underground passages...
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    Marie Marvingt (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France))
    lines as a Chasseur 2ième Classe (Soldier, 2nd Class) in the 42ième Bataillon de Chasseurs à Pied (42nd Battalion of Foot Soldiers). She was discovered...
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