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    Seyne, France. Named for a river in France, the ship was launched on 3 October 1987 and given the pennant number A 631. Somme was commissioned into the...
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    began with a preliminary attack over the river Somme on the Channel Coast to the Seine, beginning on 5 June and the main offensive by Army Group A on 9 June...
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    ("Case Yellow"), German armoured units made a surprise push through the Ardennes and then along the Somme valley, cutting off and surrounding the Allied...
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  • brigade suffered appalling casualties on the First day of the Battle of the Somme. It recovered to participate in the Battle of Arras in 1917, but was virtually...
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    Battle of Albert (1916) (category Battle of the Somme)
    Military Classics ed.). London: Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-16683-2. Prior, R.; Wilson, T. (2005). The Somme (1st ed.). London: Yale. ISBN 978-0-300-10694-7....
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    Childeric I (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    the Silva Carbonaria, then in Tournai, Cambrai and as far south as the Somme. This is roughly the definition of the Roman province of Belgica Secunda...
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    Originally published 1974. ISBN 0-631-14048-4 1992 with Catherine Regulier-Lefebvre Éléments de rythmanalyse: Introduction à la connaissance des rythmes, preface...
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    fought in a number of engagements during the Second Battle of the Somme, including at Arras and Albert. The regiment then went on to take part in a number...
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    reign began and ended with raids by the Vikings. In 860 a Viking army sailed from the Somme to England and sacked Winchester, but they were then defeated...
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    Somme. Though Sidonius Apollinaris relates that Flavius Aetius defeated a wedding party of his people (c. 431), this period marks the beginning of a situation...
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    used as flagships for French naval forces in the Indian Ocean. In 2009, Somme repelled an attack by pirates off the coast of Somalia. The lead ship of...
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    others. There are several memorial lodges, and a number of banners which depict the Battle of the Somme, war memorials, or other commemorative images....
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    Clovis I (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    eventually controlling an area stretching to the Somme river. Childeric I, Clovis's father, was reputed to be a relative of Chlodio, and was known as the king...
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    Adolf Hitler (redirect from A. Hitler)
    an army newspaper. During the Battle of the Somme in October 1916, he was wounded in the left thigh when a shell exploded in the dispatch runners' dugout...
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    History of Germany during World War I (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the Encyclopedia Americana with a Wikisource reference)
    committed to the Somme offensive. German experts are divided in their interpretation of the Somme. Some say it was a standoff, but most see it as a British victory...
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    Attacks on High Wood (category Battle of the Somme)
    in the Somme département of northern France, took place between the British Fourth Army and the German 1st Army during the Battle of the Somme. After...
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    Salian Franks (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Silva Carbonaria and expanded their territory to the Somme in northern France. These Franks, headed by a certain Chlodio, conquered an area which included...
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    Jumièges states it was built at Saint-Valery-sur-Somme – both agree that it eventually sailed from Valery-sur-Somme. The fleet carried an invasion force that...
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    A History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 2 (p.391) A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 2, British History Online; accessed 4 May 2014. A...
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    Royal Bavarian Division. His initial posting was against the British on the Somme; he was present at the First Battle of Ypres. On 9 November 1914, Hess transferred...
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  • met its Waterloo on the Somme ... [T]win thrusts—on the one hand cultural despair in face of a dead civilization, on the other a determination to make history...
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    subsequently saved them. Abstract". The Economic History Review. 68 (2): 600–631. doi:10.1111/ehr.12070. ISSN 0013-0117. S2CID 142354720. Marks 2013. Devlin...
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    19 March 2019. "Européennes: la justice ordonne à France 2 d'inviter Hamon, Philippot et Asselineau à son débat". Le Figaro. Agence France-Presse. 1 April...
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  • CS1 maint: Zbl (link) Robin, Guy (1984). "Grandes valeurs de la fonction somme des diviseurs et hypothèse de Riemann" (PDF). Journal de Mathématiques Pures...
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  • Union Farman F.60 Goliath crashed near Monsures, Somme, France, due to the structural failure of a wing, killing all six on board. August 27 – An Air...
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    Wales (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Welsh forces at Mametz Wood on the Somme and the Battle of Passchendaele. The first quarter of the 20th century also saw a shift in the political landscape...
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    River Somme; the area was the scene of several battles over the course of the war. British and French operations from July to November 1916 forced a German...
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  • Images. Blackwell Publishers. p. 180. ISBN 978-0-631-18349-5.; The Orange marches</ref> The Order has a substantial fraternal and benevolent component....
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    doi:10.1007/BF02418544 Robin, G. (1984), "Grandes valeurs de la fonction somme des diviseurs et hypothèse de Riemann", Journal de Mathématiques Pures et...
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    Vol. 24. German National Assembly. 1919. pp. 631–635. Weinberg, Gerhard L. (1994). A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University...
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