A point d'appui (French for fulcrum), in military theory, is a location where troops are assembled prior to a battle. Often a monument is erected to commemorate...

Often and historically, this military staging area has been termed a point d'appui, which is often on high ground and sometimes coincident with a significant...

Jeanne-d’Arc ( Seven Dwarfs ). Point d’appui Vaux Sud (1912-1916), entre Driant et Jeanne-d’Arc ( Seven Dwarfs ). Point d’appui Vaux Nord (1912-1916), entre...

location in Germania, beyond the Rhine, was the reason it became the point d'appui of Boniface's mission work. The Thuringii had a separate identity as...

He began his military career in the South Zone as Commander of the Point d'appui. He served in the 11th mechanized Infantry Regiment (11th RIM) during...

square Schiltron Shield wall Tercio Hoplite formation in art Pelopidas Point d'appui Roman infantry tactics Roman Legion Sarissa (Ancient Greek: φάλαγξ;...

meaning also exists in French, the first and literal meaning of point d'appui is a fixed point from which a person or thing executes a movement (such as a...

defense consisted of an outpost surrounded by several armed positions (point d'appui or P.A.). The objective was to provoke an enemy frontal assault, rather...

Paris, two years before the Dreyfus affair supplied him with another point d'appui. He became prominent among the anti-Dreyfusards along with people such...

February 2014. Henri Giffard, « De la force dépensée pour obtenir un point d'appui dans l'air calme, au moyen de l'hélice.  », Bulletin de la société Aérostatique...

advanced objective of the Corps to be permanently held, and on this point d'appui the line was eventually formed. During his time on the Western Front...

willingness to fight is the point d'appui of diplomacy, just as much as a readiness to go to court is the starting point of a lawyer's letter. It is merely...

country, and though there consequently is no external chronological point d'appui, we are nonetheless able to state, from internal evidence, that the...

many tumuli. In that same vicinity of the Laeca Burn watershed is the point d'appui of historical battles between invading Danes and indigenous Picts. Mintlaw...

longtemps sur les côtes de la Provence, à la Garde-Freinet, un solide point d'appui et de là purent faire des incursions dans une partie de la France. Au...

(French: Société Européenne de Production de l'avion Ecole de Combat et d'Appui Tactique) was an Anglo-French aircraft manufacturer. Established during...

were cut to admit heavy ordnance; and Saint-Denis, which formed the point d'appui of this line of defence on the Seine, was strongly fortified. The ground...

intellectual traditions, encourages communications and serves as a point d'appui in the Western World for Romanian academics and intellectuals. ARA is...

numerous tumuli. In that same vicinity of the Laeca Burn watershed is the point d'appui of historic battles between invading Danes and indigenous Picts. The...

numerous tumuli. In that same vicinity of the Laeca Burn watershed is the point d'appui of historic battles between invading Danes and indigenous Picts. Pitsligo...

of pirates, at which people trembled as they passed it. It was the point d'appui of the Indian pirates who ambushed the Believers there. Piracy was never...

soon thereafter wearies, the reader." Miller concluded the book was "a point d'appui for interminable digressions" on obvious aspects of Asia. Hannas stated...

Neolithic and Early Bronze age were also found. Catto Long Barrow is the point d'appui of a historic battle between invading Danes and the Picts. In the era...

are found. In that same vicinity of the Laeca Burn watershed is the point d'appui of historic battles between invading Danes and indigenous Picts. While...

silence, witness accounts of the genocide. They also founded Nyamirambo, point d'appui, an organization aimed at rebuilding. With the theatrical group Groupov...

306 The Rag Tag Circus 12 April 1945 Barby on the Elbe, Germany 307 Point D'Appui 9 October 1944 Bardebberg, Germany 308 Han-Sur-Neid 11 November 1944...

Search of the Center". "Les mots de Andrei Biely" (1969) cantata "Le point d'appui trouvé" (1970) chamber music "Happy end"" (1972) electro-acoustic piece...

a garrison (jund) and newly built walls, and it served as the main point d'appui for campaigns against rebellious Berbers, including members of the Khawarij...

concentrated his army corps in the town and held it for a month, making it the point d'appui of movements towards Dijon and Langres, as well as towards Besançon...

many tumuli. In that same vicinity of the Laeca Burn watershed is the point d'appui of historic battles between invading Danes and indigenous Picts. Laeca...