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    The Venus de Milo on display in the Louvre, c.1824–1830, attributed to Joseph Warlencourt....
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    on the right had to capture Snag Trench, then the Butte de Warlencourt and the Warlencourt line. The Tail ran back from Snag Trench to the butte and the...
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    Capture of Eaucourt l'Abbaye Capture of Le Sars Attacks on the Butte de Warlencourt Capture of Schwaben Redoubt Capture of Stuff Redoubt Capture of Regina...
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    Line, after which the 18th Battalion took part in the fighting around Warlencourt in February 1917 as the Allies sought to follow up the German withdrawal...
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    an 18,000 yd (10 mi; 16 km) front opposite the Fifth Army, abandoning Warlencourt, Miraumont and Serre. A prisoner revealed that this was to be part of...
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    Somme such as Highlander Passing a Grave and Thinker on the Butte de Warlencourt. There was much press discussion as to why the censor had passed Orpen's...
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    March he was involved in the battalion's actions around the village of Warlencourt. At 03:00 on 2 March, Cherry led his company in an attack on the German...
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    miner again and died in 1948 in Haillicourt. 1790–1810, Procope-Alexandre-Joseph de Ligne 1810–1819, Pierre Caron 1820–1822, Jacques Delaby 1822–1825, Pierre...
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    1794, during the Reign of Terror, the city was under the supervision of Joseph Lebon who implemented food restrictions, ordered 400 executions and destroyed...
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    square in 1910, opposite the entrance to the Calais theatre. It commemorates Joseph Marie Jacquard, popular in Calais because of his contribution to the development...
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    Mâcon Patty Townsend-Johnson, Berck back garden. Watercolour, 1904 Marie-Joseph Iwill, The flooded road to Berck. 1909, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen Charles...
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    statesman Antoine Davion (c. 1664–1726), Mississippi missionary, 1698–1725 Joseph Liouville (1809–1882), mathematician Robert Parsons (1546–1610), Jesuit...
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    the Hindenburg Line, the 26th was involved in a number of actions at Warlencourt and Lagnicourt in March. During the fighting around Lagnicourt, Captain...
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    branches off the D 917 at the edge of the commune and goes south-west to Warlencourt-Eaucourt. The A1 autoroute passes south down the eastern edge of the...
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    the Germans, while at the same time launched attacks on the Butte de Warlencourt burial mound northeast of the commune. Battle of the Ancre Heights –...
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    battalions of the 5th and 7th Brigades launched a combined attack north of Warlencourt. The initial assault yielded some ground, but the Germans completed a...
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    Lycée Nazareth, Haffreingue, Saint-Joseph College: College Godefroy de Bouillon, Haffreingue, Nazareth, Saint-Joseph Two health centres are located in...
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  • Palmer, Joseph Adam. – Narrative re War Service, 1915–1919, Record Search, National Archives of Australia Retrieved 17 Jan 2014, Palmer, Joseph Adam. –...
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    humorist and actor. Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise was the birthplace of Martial Joseph Armand Herman (1749-1795), a politician of the French Revolution, and temporary...
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    the front line on 4 October, opposite a mound known as the Butte de Warlencourt. Next day the battalion seized the old mill west of Eaucourt l'Abbaye...
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    Transloy – British forces made one last attack on the German-held Butte de Warlencourt burial ground, with a loss of c. 1,000 casualties. Anglo-Egyptian Darfur...
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    and the D49 roads, on the banks of the river Scarpe. The church of St. Joseph, dating from the sixteenth century. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission...
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    Becket was similarly classified in 1911 A painted wooden sculpture of Saint Joseph and the infant Jesus and an early-18th-century chalice are also listed by...
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    Antoine-Constant de Hamel, next to the previous castle, to plans by Jean-Joseph de Watelet, mayor of the city of Arras. After the French Revolution, the...
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    Hendecourt-Les-Ransart. The first chateau was probably built around 1703 by Louis-Joseph Le Sergeant of Hendecourt on the site of an earlier manor house. The chateau...
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    northwest of Saint-Omer, at the D217 and D219 crossroads. The church of St. Joseph, dating from the nineteenth century. Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department...
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    Arras, at the junction of the D339 and the D79 roads. The church of St.Joseph, dating from the nineteenth century. Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department...
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    northwest of Bruay-la-Buissière, the largest nearby city. The church of St.Joseph, dating from the nineteenth century. The war memorial. Communes of the Pas-de-Calais...
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    sandstone rock chained to another on the village square. The church of St. Joseph, dating from the sixteenth century. The eighteenth-century château. Le gal...
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    Sulpice, dating from the sixteenth century. The war memorial. Benedict Joseph Labre, Catholic saint, was born here in 1748. Communes of the Pas-de-Calais...
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