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    of Verdun in World War I. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mémorial de Verdun. Sherman, Daniel J. The Construction of Memory in Interwar France...
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    Verdun (/vɜːrˈdʌn/, also UK: /ˈvɛərdʌn/, US: /vɛərˈdʌn/, French: [vɛʁdœ̃] ; official name before 1970: Verdun-sur-Meuse) is a city in the Meuse department...
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  • pushed for the museum to be built, wrote "Ce Mémorial a été édifié par les survivants de Verdun, en souvenir de leurs camarades tombés dans la bataille pour...
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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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    Douaumont Ossuary (category Battle of Verdun)
    (French: Ossuaire de Douaumont) is a memorial containing the skeletal remains of soldiers who died on the battlefield during the Battle of Verdun in World War...
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    Body armor (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
     66. Williams 2003, p. 331. Williams 2003, p. 916. "Sappenpanzer". Mémorial de Verdun. 2015-11-03. Archived from the original on 2021-01-08. Retrieved 2021-01-06...
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    The Treaty of Verdun (French: Traité de Verdun), agreed in August 843, divided the Frankish Empire into three kingdoms between Lothair I, Louis II and...
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  • Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, but also spent a few seasons at the Verdun Auditorium in the Montreal suburb of Verdun, Quebec. Rodrigue Lemoyne served as the team's general...
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    Fort Douaumont (category Battle of Verdun)
    (French: Fort de Douaumont) was the largest and highest fort on the ring of 19 large defensive works which had protected the city of Verdun, France, since...
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    Memorial Hall now Islamic Centre of Montreal is an historic building in the Verdun neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located on rue de...
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    inter alia the Centre de Recherche des Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne, the Comité Scientique du Mémorial de Verdun, memorial for the victims of the...
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  • Verdun Collège Français were a junior ice hockey team from Verdun, Quebec, Canada. They were members of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League from 1991...
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    Isabelle Huot (category Université de Montréal alumni)
    R. Wilson Memorial Award. In 2009, she founded her own nutrition clinic Kilo Solution in Verdun. She now owns 3 clinics located in Verdun, downtown Montreal...
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  • retreat and retrenched east of Verdun on the Woëvre plain and at the foot of the "Heights of the Meuse" (the Hauts de Meuse). From here they intended...
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    Marseillaise relief broke off on the day, it is said, that the Battle of Verdun began in 1916. The relief was immediately hidden by tarpaulins to conceal...
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  • to Verdun. Sherbrooke moved to Dilio Division, while Verdun played in the Lebel. 1978– Shawinigan Dynamos became Shawinigan Cataractes. 1979– Verdun Éperviers...
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    Fort Vaux (redirect from Fort de vaux)
    of Verdun. Built from 1881 to 1884 for 1,500,000 francs, it housed a garrison of 150 men. Vaux was the second fort to fall in the Battle of Verdun after...
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  • such monuments. He executed sculpture for the Vienne war memorial in 1926, that for Verdun in 1928 and the Monument aux Basques at Craonnelle. He also...
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    selected in 1916 for a memorial to the Battle of Verdun: a version enlarged to four times the original size was unveiled at Verdun on 1 August 1920. Barrias...
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    Battle of the Somme (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    A week later the Germans began the Battle of Verdun against the French army. The costly defence of Verdun forced the army to divert divisions intended...
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  • Français. The team played for three seasons before moving to Verdun in 1991 to become the Verdun Collège Français. The franchise ceased operations in 1994...
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    Notre Dame de Lorette. During the attack, the French 1st Moroccan Division briefly captured the height of the ridge, where the Vimy memorial is currently...
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    Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (France) (category Arc de Triomphe)
    taken place: in Flanders, Artois, the Somme, Île-de-France, on the Chemin des Dames, the Champagne, at Verdun, and Lorraine. Initially, nine soldiers and nine...
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    Wood Notre Dame de Lorette Pozières Memorial (British World War I Memorial) Verdun Memorial Villers–Bretonneux Australian National Memorial (Australian World...
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    Touny (1886–1944), a leader of the French Resistance, now buried in the Mémorial de la France combattante. James Tracey, 3191945 Private in the 6th (Border)...
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    They shall not pass (category Battle of Verdun)
    faction. The widespread use of the slogan originates from the 1916 Battle of Verdun in the First World War when French Army General Robert Nivelle urged his...
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    "Verdun - monument de la Victoire". Retrieved 24 November 2014. Base Mérimée: Monument A la Victoire et aux Soldats de Verdun, Ministère français de la...
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    platforms. On 21 February 1916, the Verdun Offensive began. New weapons demand new tactics. Commandant Charles de Tricornet de Rose was the original French pilot...
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    pp. 25–36, 2009. Parent G.-H., 2004. Trois études sur la Zone Rouge de Verdun, une zone totalement sinistrée I.L'herpétofaune – II.La diversité floristique...
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    Fondation Charles-de-Gaulle Works by or about Charles de Gaulle at Internet Archive Mémorial Charles de Gaulle Newspaper clippings about Charles de Gaulle in...
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