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    Battle of Saumur occurred during the last stages of the Battle of France during World War II, when officer cadets from the Cavalry School at Saumur, led by...
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    The Véhicule Blindé de Combat d'Infanterie (English: Armoured Infantry Fighting Vehicle) or VBCI is a French Infantry fighting vehicle designed and manufactured...
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  • Saumur (French: Académie de Saumur) was a Huguenot university at Saumur in western France. It existed from 1593, when it was founded by Philippe de Mornay...
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    war depot of the 6th Engineer Regiment which supported the combats of the Cadets of Saumur. Captain Schneider was cited for the defensive mounted on the...
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    actually descended. Its training establishment is the Cavalry School in Saumur. The employment doctrine of the Arme blindée et cavalerie includes the traditional...
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    lieutenant on 1 October 1910. He then went on to the Cavalry School in Saumur. De Lattre was assigned to the 12th Dragoon Regiment [fr], which was stationed...
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    ELC bis is on display as an exhibit in the Museum of Armored Vehicles in Saumur. The ELC Even was a series of light tanks created in competition with AMX's...
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    Saint-Chamond (tank) (category Forges et Aciéries de la Marine et d'Homécourt)
    (in French) Saumur Tank Museum St. Chamond tank @ 5 Star General site Video of newly restored (2017) Saint-Chamond test drive at Saumur armoured vehicle...
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    Cavalry School in Saumur, from which he graduated first in his class on 8 August 1925. Hauteclocque's older brother Guy had married Madeleine de Gargan, the...
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    rounded front plates. It was previously part of the Musée des Blindés in Saumur, France Jagdpanzer IV L/48 Deutsches Panzermuseum in Munster, Germany. It...
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    traditional French equestrianism is essentially represented at the Cadre Noir de Saumur. The practice of equestrianism has evolved towards sport and leisure,...
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    "División de Bienestar". "Comité Permanent des Fêtes de Saumur - Festival 2011". www.comitedesfetes-saumur.fr. Retrieved 2020-06-15. "Banda de Conciertos...
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    Montsoreau (category Plus Beaux Villages de France)
    2018. Retrieved 8 October 2018. "99 – Combat des Cadets de Saumur sur la Loire" [Battle of the Cadets of Saumur on the Loire]. anac-fr.com (in French)...
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    markings (v0 1780) written on the cartridge of an OFL 120 G1 displayed at the Saumur Armored Museum. When the round reaches the end of the barrel, the muzzle...
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    French Army (redirect from Armée de Terre)
    basis of the staff of the Armoured and Cavalry Branch Training School at Saumur. In the late 1970s an attempt was made to form 14 reserve light infantry...
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    Goliath tracked mine (category Unmanned ground combat vehicles)
    the Musée du Débarquement Utah Beach, Normandy, France Musée des Blindés, Saumur, France Musee No. 4 Commando, Ouistreham, Normandy, France the Canadian...
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  • Angers École de l'Artillerie (EA) - Artillery School, in Draguignan École de cavalerie (EC) - Cavalry School, in Saumur Centre Interarmées de la Défense...
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    men-at-arms in the province for the combats of the Sixth War. At first he served again in Languedoc, seeing combat at Carcassonne. By this time however...
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    Cavalry Arm and joined the Cavalry School of Saumur within his specialty, promotion « lieutenant Charles de Foucauld ». He was a section platoon chief of...
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    Ausf. G. Patriot Park, Kubinka, Russia. One StuH 42. Musée des Blindés, Saumur France. Two StuG IIIs, a StuG III Ausf. G and a StuH 42. The Australian...
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    Luchs (tank) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    there are only 2 surviving today. These are:  France — Musée des Blindés in Saumur, chassis number 200164.  United Kingdom — Bovington Tank Museum, chassis...
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    Maxime Weygand (category École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr alumni)
    graduating in 1887, he went on to become an instructor at the Cavalry School at Saumur. During World War I, Weygand served as a staff officer to General (later...
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    Obice de 75/18 modello 35 on display at the Musée des Blindés in Saumur...
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    HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-711228-9. Wikimedia Commons has media related to FCM 36. Musée des blindés de Saumur (in French) 1936 FCM 36. Chars-francais.net....
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  • of 217 men, to Saumur where they joined up with other French forces at the French School of Cavalry to participate in Battle of Saumur, often considered...
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    garrison without any history. In 1870, the regiment participated to combats of the Armée de la Loire. During the Paris Commune in 1871, the regiment participated...
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    peasants escorted him towards Saumur, which was then held by the royalist Vendéens since June 1793 (see Battle of Saumur). In one of his interrogations...
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    Saumur No.1. Tokyo, Japan: Dai Nippon Kaiga Co. ISBN 9784499205436. Jentz, Thomas; Doyle, Hilary (1995). Germany's Panther Tank The Quest For Combat Supremacy...
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    Cadres of the regiment are formed at the Cavalry Application School of Saumur. Following the ceasefire on March 19, 1962, 114 units of local forces of...
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    addition to Tiger 131, nine other Tiger I tanks survive: Musée des Blindés in Saumur, France. Indoor exhibit in good condition. Mid-production (1944) version...
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