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    returning to the Seventh Army, he was ordered to join the 2ème groupement cuirassé, a scratch force of armoured and mechanised units that included Brigadier...
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    a transport. By 14 December she was in Plymouth then assigned to Group Lorraine of the French Navy employed in bombarding isolated German fortresses along...
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    elevated and respectable, including the monarchy itself." Le Gazetier cuirassé by Charles Théveneau de Morande was a prototype of the genre. It was Grub...
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  • and searching for Kriegsmarine menace. On 9 June, the obsolete French cuirassé Courbet was disarmed and scuttled – together with other ships – in the...
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    Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd. OCLC 867403210. Dumas, Robert (2001). Le cuirassé Jean Bart 1939–1970 [The Battleship Jean Bart 1939–1970] (in French). Rennes:...
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    Italian fort atop Mont Chaberton—nicknamed "battleship in the clouds" (cuirassé des nuages) by the French—switched targets to the French fort Ouvrage Janus...
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