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    La Gorgue (French pronunciation: [la ɡɔʁɡ]) is a town in northern France. It is a commune in the Nord department. The population of La Gorgue in 2019...
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    through Houdain, Bruay-la-Buissière, Béthune and Lestrem. It flows into the Lys in La Gorgue. Sandre. "Fiche cours d'eau - La Lawe (E3660600)". v t e...
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  • aircraft) until the end of the First World War. The squadron was based at La Gorgue in northern France from 7 July until 18 August 2017. For the great tank...
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    Cateau-Cambrésis. From 24 March until 7 April 1917 the squadron was based at La Gorgue in northern France. No. 5 Squadron standardised on the Royal Aircraft...
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  • Isbergues), two passenger trains collide head-on between Laventie and La Gorgue. One source says 56 people are killed and 40 injured; another says from...
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    Lille (section La Braderie)
    (Basilique-cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-la-Treille) Citadel of Lille Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille Jardin botanique de la Faculté de Pharmacie Jardin botanique...
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    Le Cateau-Cambrésis (French pronunciation: [ kato kɑ̃bʁezi], before 1977: Le Cateau) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. The term...
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    and for some time was based at the aerodrome at the Beaupré-sur-la-Lys Abbey in La Gorgue. For the rest of the Great War, the 'Saints' were deployed throughout...
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  • disbanded at RAF Netheravon on 26 June 1919. The squadron was based at La Gorgue in northern France from 1 September to 8 November 1916. On 14 December...
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    commanding officer of No. 16 Squadron in July 1915, which was based at La Gorgue in northern France. After the Battle of the Somme, Dowding clashed with...
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    resembles Flemish cuisine; perhaps one of the best known dishes is coq à la bière – chicken in a creamy beer sauce. In June 1792 the French astronomers...
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    September 1916. He was buried at the Pont du Hem Military Cemetery, at La Gorgue, with another sapper killed on the same day. Well-known, as Jack Bray...
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    Medici. The Athlone Press. Belleval 2022, p. 292. La Gorgue-Rosny 1874, p. 174. Potter 2001, p. 322. La Gorgue-Rosny 1874, p. 131. Potter 2001, p. 323. Potter...
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    Gognies-Chaussée Gommegnies Gondecourt Gonnelieu La Gorgue Gouzeaucourt Grande-Synthe Grand-Fayt Grand-Fort-Philippe Gravelines La Groise Gruson Guesnain Gussignies...
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    McElroy is interred in Plot I.C.1 at the Laventie Military Cemetery in La Gorgue, northern France. Military Cross 2nd Lieutenant George Edward Henry McElroy...
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    commune file Histoire littéraire de la France: XIIIe siècle (in French). Chez Osmont, à l'Olivier, Huart l'aîné, a la Justice, Clousier, à l'Ecu de France...
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    Gognies-Chaussée Gommegnies Gondecourt Gonnelieu La Gorgue Gouzeaucourt Grande-Synthe Grand-Fayt Grand-Fort-Philippe Gravelines La Groise Gruson Guesnain Gussignies...
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    Estaires (59212) Flêtre (59237) Ghyvelde (59260) Godewaersvelde (59262) La Gorgue (59268) Grand-Fort-Philippe (59272) Grande-Synthe (59271) Gravelines (59273)...
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    taken by the troops of Louis XIV of France, and by the 1668 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, the town was ceded to France. During successive sieges from 1710...
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    beginning of the 21st century: La Piscine and La Manufacture; inheriting both of the local socioeconomic history. La Piscine, also known as the Musée...
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  • Merville to Lestrem, one of its officers being captured by enemy tanks. At La Gorgue, close to Estaires, the CO, Lt-Col G. Ames, found an 18-pounder of 10th...
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    the public and still operates daily during the high season. The Hôtel de la Noble Cour (also known as the Landshuys) off Cassel's Grande Place houses...
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    rotated along the XI Corps sector, and spent time in Festubert, Givenchy, La Gorgue, Laventie and Neuve Chapelle. Units of the division took turns on the...
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    squadron continued in this vein until the end of the war. It was based at La Gorgue in northern France from 15 January until 22 March 1918. The squadron received...
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  • covering the bridgeheads across the River Lys at La Gorgue, Nouveau Monde (Pont Levis) and Pont de la Meuse. Estaires was already under shellfire and becoming...
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    recherche sur les transports et leur sécurité), INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique), the veterinary laboratory of the Nord department,...
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    re-forming. "C" Flight was ordered to La Gorgue, Nord-Pas-de-Calais and attach to 43 Sqn RAF. Upon detraining at La Gorgue, the men were marched several miles...
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    freight line to La Gorgue...
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  • Flanders, probably between Lille and Saint-Omer, possibly in the town of La Gorgue. German writer and music theorist Hermann Finck wrote that Gombert studied...
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    Retrieved 18 December 2016. La fusion, effective au 1er janvier 2017, acte un élargissement historique du territoire de la Métropole Européenne de Lille...
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