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    The Second Battle of the Marne (French: Seconde Bataille de la Marne; 15 – 18 July 1918) was the last major German offensive on the Western Front during...
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    (also known as the Battle of the Soissonnais and of the Ourcq (French: Bataille du Soissoinais et de L'Ourcq)) was fought on the Western Front during World...
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    The Battle of Verdun (French: Bataille de Verdun [bataj də vɛʁdœ̃]; German: Schlacht um Verdun [ʃlaxt ʔʊm ˈvɛɐ̯dœ̃]) was fought from 21 February to 18...
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    Russian: Бopoди́нcкoe cpaже́ниe, romanized: Borodínskoye srazhéniye; French: Bataille de la Moskova. Napoleon was in the habit of issuing regular bulletins describing...
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    they rushed forward, capturing Le Chesne (the Battle of Chesne (French: Bataille du Chesne)). In the final days, the French forces conquered the immediate...
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    Verdi travelled there, arriving on 5 April. He discovered that Piave was now "Citizen Piave" of the newly proclaimed Republic of San Marco. Writing a patriotic...
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    The Battle of Canal du Nord was part of the Hundred Days Offensive of the First World War by the Allies against German positions on the Western Front....
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    by Eugène de Beauharnais, and fought the Austrians at Sacile, Caldiero, Piave, and Raab. In 1813–1814 Eugéne fought the Austrians with his army in northern...
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    & Wilson 1996, p. 179. Wynne 1976, pp. 214–215. La bataille du Chemin des Dames, Seconde bataille de l'Aisne and Doppelschlacht Aisne-Champagne. Also...
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    British, Spanish and Portuguese corps engaged elements of the French armée du Midi (Army of the South) at the small Spanish village of Albuera, about 20...
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    helped to repulse in June the Austrian offensive during the Battle of the Piave River. In addition to providing troops for combat in overseas theatres of...
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    review of Beethoven's 5th Symphony, singles out for special abuse a certain Bataille des trois Empereurs, a French battle symphony by Louis Jadin celebrating...
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    designation of 126th battle demi-brigade (French: 126e demi-brigade de bataille, 126e DBB) within the cadre of the reorganization of the armies of the...
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    The Battle of the Frontiers (French: Bataille des Frontières, German: Grenzschlachten, Dutch: Slag der Grenzen) comprised battles fought along the eastern...
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  • Devil-May-Care Sidney Franklin Music, Romance, War. Based on the play La Bataille de dames, ou un duel en amour. 1929 Weimar Republic Waterloo Karl Grune...
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    parallèle – La France en Algérie 1830–1962, 1963. La Brigade marocaine à la bataille de la Marne, 1964. Trois siècles d’obéissance militaire, 1650–1963, 1964...
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    The Second Battle of the Aisne (Bataille du Chemin des Dames or Seconde bataille de l'Aisne, 16 April – mid-May 1917) was the main part of the Nivelle...
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    The Battle of Grand Couronné (French: Bataille du Grand Couronné [Great Crown]) from 4 to 13 September 1914, took place in France after the Battle of...
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    Somme, 1918, whilst the French call it the Second Battle of Picardy (2ème Bataille de Picardie). The failure of the offensive marked the beginning of the...
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    Waterloo, Pratt & Barry, pp. 74, 77 Pigeard, Alain (2004), Dictionnaire des batailles de Napoléon, Tallandier, Bibliothèque Napoléonienne, ISBN 2-84734-073-4...
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    Wikimedia Commons Bigarré, Auguste Julien (1893). Mémoires du General Bigarré, aide de camp du roi Joseph: 1775–1813. p. 277. Blaze, Elzéar (1995). Haythornthwaite...
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    with her detailed research into regency history. The Battle (French: La Bataille) is a historical novel by the French author Patrick Rambaud that was first...
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    The Battle of Liège (5–16 August 1914) [also French: Bataille de Liège] was the opening engagement of the German invasion of Belgium and the first battle...
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    Binois, L.; Kaluzko, J.-L. (2003). Vaux, histoire d'un fort: la construction du fort de Vaux et les événements de 1916 [Vaux, History of a Fort: The Building...
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    on 9 June 2007. Retrieved 14 April 2007. "Musée de la bataille de Fromelles". Musée de la bataille de Fromelles. 2014. Retrieved 20 February 2017. McPhedran...
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  • Lorraine (1943) Passage to Marseille (1944) To Have and Have Not (1944) La Bataille du rail (1945) A Friend Will Come Tonight (1946) Odette (film) (1950) When...
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    The French had been warned of this attack (the Battle of Matz (French: Bataille du Matz)) by information from German prisoners, and their defence in depth...
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  • manifesto was published in the pages of the pro-war socialist periodical La Bataille on March 14, 1916, and republished in other European anarchist periodicals...
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    The Second Battle of Artois (French: Deuxième bataille de l'Artois, German: Lorettoschlacht) from 9 May to 18 June 1915, took place on the Western Front...
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    The First Battle of Ypres (French: Première Bataille des Flandres, German: Erste Flandernschlacht, 19 October – 22 November 1914) was a battle of the First...
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