the former commune of Sainte-Croix-de-Saint-Lô, south of Saint-Thomas-de-Saint-Lô, absorbed in 1964. Saint-Lô has a mild oceanic climate characterised...
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Battle of Saint-Lô was one of the three conflicts in the battle of the hedgerows which took place between July 7 and 19, 1944, in Saint-Lô, Manche, Normandy...
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Football Club Saint-Lô Manche is a French association football club founded in 1965. They are based in the town of Saint-Lô and their home stadium is...
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la ville de Saint-Lô - Jumelages". saint-lo.fr. Ville de Saint-Lô. Retrieved June 11, 2024. "Jumelages — Ville de Saint-Ghislain". saint-ghislain.be....
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arrondissement was 84,327 in 2013. Arrondissement of Saint-Lô, (prefecture of the Manche department: Saint-Lô) with 87 communes. The population of the arrondissement...
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Gare de Saint-Lô is a railway station serving the town Saint-Lô, Manche department, Normandy, northwestern France. It is situated on the Lison–Lamballe...
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Château de Saint-Lô was a castle in Saint-Lô, Normandy, France. Charlemagne built a fortified place at Saint-Lô in response to the incursions of the Vikings...
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Saint-Lô-d'Ourville (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ lo duʁvil]) is a former commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. On 1 January...
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Siege of Saint-Lô may refer to: Siege of Saint-Lô (889), the siege, capture, and subsequent massacre of the city by Vikings Siege of Saint-Lô (1141), the...
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Saint-Lô Agglo is the communauté d'agglomération, an intercommunal structure, centred on the town of Saint-Lô. It is located in the Manche department...
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Panzer Lehr Division (section The Saint-Lô battles)
support to the divisions resisting the American advance near Saint-Lô. The area around Saint-Lô consists of small fields with high ancient hedgerows and sunken...
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because of the almost complete destruction of Saint-Lô during the Battle of Normandy following D-Day. When Saint-Lô was rebuilt, it once again became the capital...
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Thomas D. Howie (redirect from Major of St. Lo)
effort to capture the strategic French town of Saint-Lô. He became immortalized as "The Major of St. Lo". Howie was a native of Abbeville, South Carolina...
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Laud of Coutances (redirect from Saint Laud)
Saint Laud of Coutances (variants: Lauto, Laudo, Launus, popularly: Saint Lô) was the fifth bishop of Coutances and is venerated as a saint in the Roman...
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energy, elegance, and conformation. The Haras National de Saint-Lô (National Stud of Saint-Lô) was founded in 1806 by Napoleon. This stud and the Haras...
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Army to take Saint-Lô and Coutances and then make two southward thrusts; one from Caumont toward Vire and Mortain and the other from Saint-Lô toward Villedieu...
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départements of Calvados and Manche, flowing through the towns of Vire, Saint-Lô and Isigny-sur-Mer, finally flowing out into the English Channel. Its main...
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arrondissement of Saint-Lô were, as of January 2015: Canisy Carentan Marigny Percy Saint-Clair-sur-l'Elle Saint-Jean-de-Daye Saint-Lô-Est Saint-Lô-Ouest Tessy-sur-Vire...
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reached positions only 3 miles (4.8 km) short of Saint-Lô, but the fighting in the Battle of Saint-Lô bogged down in the difficult bocage terrain of Normandy...
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beachheads at each of the five landing sites on the first day, but Carentan, Saint-Lô, and Bayeux remained in German hands. Caen, a major objective, was not...
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of the Wehrmacht from 1943 until 1945. It was set up in the area around Saint-Lô and then sent to Omaha Beach in December 1943. Oberst i.G. Ernst Goth was...
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ended up taking nearly two months, and US forces had expected to control Saint-Lô by the 7 June, yet German resistance delayed this until after Caen's liberation...
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The canton of Saint-Lô-1 is an administrative division of the Manche department, northwestern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation...
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which were not made fully operational until September. The Battle of Saint-Lô is one of the three conflicts in the Battle of the Hedgerows (fr), which...
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Omaha Beach. The rest of the 29th ID came ashore later, then advanced to Saint-Lô, and eventually through France and into Germany. Following the end of World...
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The canton of Saint-Lô-2 is an administrative division of the Manche department, northwestern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation...
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Saint-Lô is a commune in the Manche department of France. St. Lo or Saint-Lô may also refer to: Laud of Coutances, the bishop after which Saint-Lô was...
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Senegalese musician Maodo Lô (born 1992), German basketball player LO (disambiguation) Saint-Lô This page lists people with the surname Lô. If an internal link...
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Beauvais (Oise) : 80% Lorient (Morbihan) : 80 % Brest (Finistère) : 80 % Saint-Lô (Manche): 77% Falaise (Calvados): 76% Lisieux (Calvados): 75% The bombings...
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several weeks. Kraiss suffered a severe wound on August 2, 1944, near Saint-Lô, and died on 6 August. He was posthumously awarded the Knight's Cross of...
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