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    Givenchy-en-Gohelle (French pronunciation: [ʒivɑ̃ʃi ɑ̃ ɡɔɛl]; Picard: Givinchy-in-Gohelle) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France...
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    resistance. The final objective, a fortified knoll outside the village of Givenchy-en-Gohelle, fell to the Canadians on 12 April. The German 6th Army then retreated...
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    Loos-en-Gohelle is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. A former coal mining town, three miles northwest...
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  • way the red cabaret. June 16–22: French attacks in direction of Givenchy-en-Gohelle. June 24 – September 14: retrieved from the front and rested towards...
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  • France: Givenchy-en-Gohelle, which is the location of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial Givenchy-le-Noble Givenchy-lès-la-Bassée Battle of Givenchy (December...
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    Royal Engineers fired the last British deep mine of the war, at Givenchy-en-Gohelle near Arras. As part of Allied operations in the Ypres Salient, British...
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    2015. Retrieved 31 March 2017. The ridge runs in a direction from Givenchy-en-Gohelle in the north-west to Farbus in the south-east. "Canadian National...
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    2015. Retrieved 31 March 2017. The ridge runs in a direction from Givenchy-en-Gohelle in the north-west to Farbus in the south-east. Sciolino, Elaine (12...
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    2015. Retrieved 31 March 2017. The ridge runs in a direction from Givenchy-en-Gohelle in the north-west to Farbus in the south-east. Hakim, Joy (1995)...
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    Sains-en-Gohelle is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Sains-en-Gohelle is an ex-coalmining town, nowadays...
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    point the "Pimple", a heavily defended knoll west of the town of Givenchy-en-Gohelle, was the only German position remaining on Vimy Ridge. On 12 April...
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    2015. Retrieved 31 March 2017. The ridge runs in a direction from Givenchy-en-Gohelle in the north-west to Farbus in the south-east. "Saltwire | Halifax"...
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    Montigny-en-Gohelle is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Montigny-en-Gohelle is former coalmining town...
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    Estevelles Fouquières-lès-Lens Givenchy-en-Gohelle Gouy-Servins Grenay Harnes Hulluch Lens Liévin Loison-sous-Lens Loos-en-Gohelle Mazingarbe Méricourt Meurchin...
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    French troops advanced as far as artillery positions around Givenchy-en-Gohelle (Givenchy), where reinforcements arrived at noon and managed to forestall...
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    Stalingrad and the Battle of Budapest. Canadian National Vimy Memorial Givenchy-en-Gohelle Moroccan Division 2nd Marching Regiment of the 1st Foreign Regiment...
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    long ("obstinate defense") and ordered that the town's population be killed en masse.[citation needed] He agreed, however, to spare them, on condition that...
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    Jean Baptiste Peignot (June 24, 1872, Paris – September 28, 1915, Givenchy-en-Gohelle) was a French type designer, type founder, and manager of the G....
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    Givenchy-lès-la-Bassée (French pronunciation: [ʒivɑ̃ʃi lɛ la base], literally Givenchy near La Bassée; Picard: Givinchy-lès-l’Bassée) is a commune in the...
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    of only 600 yards (550 m). Another futile attack was launched at Givenchy-en-Gohelle in June 1915, after which the division moved to Ploegsteert. The...
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    Estevelles (62311) Évin-Malmaison (62321) Fouquières-lès-Lens (62351) Givenchy-en-Gohelle (62371) Gouy-Servins (62380) Grenay (62386) Harnes (62413) Hénin-Beaumont...
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    remove it. The last mine fired by the British in World War I was near Givenchy on 10 August 1917, after which the tunnelling companies of the Royal Engineers...
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    in Lens after surveys were carried out at Annay, Courrières and Loos-en-Gohelle. This led to the expansion of the city into an important industrial center...
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    Dauzat; Charles Rostaing (1968). Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de lieux en France. éditions Larousse. p. 4. The House of Commons: 1509–1558, Volume 4;...
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    half of Hill 145 and "the Pimple", a fortified highpoint outside of Givenchy-en-Gohelle, remained under German control. Fresh troops finally forced the remaining...
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    Faber and Faber. p. 86. ISBN 978-0-571-22195-0. The CWGC cemetery Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wimereux...
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    Captain Sir Douglas Bader militaryhistory.about.com [dead link] Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE "Monument à Jacqueline Robins – Saint-Omer (Fondu)...
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    Higashikawa, Japan Cantley Ornans, France Cape Breton Dalian, China Givenchy-en-Gohelle, France Wałbrzych, Poland Cap-Pelé Broussard, United States Carleton...
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    March 2013. Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2017, INSEE "Boulogne-sur-Mer Tourist Guide". Information France. 1 June 2010...
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    Oxford University Press, U.S.A. pp. 301–302. ISBN 978-0192805508. "Béthune en 1939-1945". Ajpn.org. Retrieved 5 January 2019. Des villages de Cassini aux...
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