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    Wattignies (French pronunciation: [watiɲi]; Dutch: Wattenijs) is a commune in the Nord department of northern France. It lies in the south-western part...
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    repulsed, except near the village of Wattignies. On the second day, Jourdan concentrated half his army at Wattignies and after a tough fight, forced Coburg...
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    The Wattignies class was a group of two torpedo cruisers built for the French Navy in the early 1890s. The class comprised Wattignies and Fleurus. They...
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    The French cruiser Wattignies was the lead ship of a class of two torpedo cruisers, the Wattignies class, that were built for the French Navy (Marine...
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  • stopped at Wattignies, with a loss of 12 guns. During the night, Jourdan took 6,000 troops from Balland to help Duquesnoy's men capture Wattignies and Coburg...
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    Wattignies-la-Victoire (French pronunciation: [watiɲi la viktwaʁ]) is a commune in the Nord department of northern France. It is close to the site of the...
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    operation. Jourdan defeated Coburg on 15–16 October at the Battle of Wattignies and broke the siege. Carnot claimed that it was his own intervention that...
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    October, however, his victorious career suffered a reverse at the Battle of Wattignies. He participated in the Flanders Campaign against Charles Pichegru in...
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    Wattignies was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. She took part in the Expédition d'Irlande in 1798 under captain Antoine René Thévenard. In...
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    of Clerfayt: 68  and moved to the Wattignies plateau to the south of Mauberge. After two days' fighting at Wattignies, the Prince ordered a general retreat...
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    Coalition, he saw victory at Neerwinden in 1793, before being defeated at Wattignies in 1793 and Fleurus in 1794. In 1796, as chief of all Austrian forces...
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  • during the French Revolutionary Wars and led a division at the Battle of Wattignies. Duquesnoy was born to a farmer in Bouvigny-Boyeffles, France on 27 February...
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    Marseilles and Bordeaux, while defeating Coalition armies at Hondschoote and Wattignies. The new class of military leaders included a young colonel named Napoleon...
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  • at Valmy, Jemappes, Aldenhoven, Neerwinden, Raismes, Caesar's Camp and Wattignies, and he was wounded twice. In January 1794 he was promoted to general...
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    Neerwinden in March, the Austrians suffered twin defeats at the battles of Wattignies and Wissembourg. British land forces were defeated at the Battle of Hondschoote...
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    name by another decree of 16 August 1879, which also renamed the Rue de Wattignies to the existing Rue Marceau in the 12th arrondissement. Jacobs, Allan...
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    Vendeville Verlinghem Villeneuve-d'Ascq Wambrechies Warneton Wasquehal Wattignies Wattrelos Wavrin Wervicq-Sud Wicres Willems "Décret n° 2014-1600 du 23...
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    Wargnies-le-Petit Warhem Warlaing Warneton Wasnes-au-Bac Wasquehal Watten Wattignies Wattignies-la-Victoire Wattrelos Wavrechain-sous-Denain Wavrechain-sous-Faulx...
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    class Condor (1885) Epervier (1886) Faucon (1887) Vautour (1889) Wattignies class Wattignies (1891) Fleurus (1893) D'Iberville class D'Iberville (1892) Cassini...
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    French cruiser Fleurus (category Wattignies-class cruisers)
    The French cruiser Fleurus was a torpedo cruiser of the Wattignies class that were built for the French Navy (Marine Nationale) in the early 1890s. The...
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    Year Location Boys 1976  Wattignies (France)  Nir Grinberg (Israel) 1977  Cagnes-sur-Mer (France)  Jon Arnason (Iceland) 1978  Sas van Gent (Netherlands)...
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    elevated to the rank of general of brigade in September 1793. He fought at Wattignies in the Low Countries theatre of the War of the First Coalition. He led...
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  • Everett Reynolds (1956–1958) Nathan Zametto (1957) Bob Randel (1959) Don Wattigny (1960) Ronnie Myrick (1961–1962) Bookie Shillcutt (1963) Johnny Garrison...
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    February 1734 – 30 September 1799) led a French division at the Battle of Wattignies. A nobleman, he joined the French Royal Army as a cadet in 1755 and fought...
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    their factory, the company left Paris in 1933 for a new factory base in Wattignies. Once the move was complete, the Marseille factory was also closed. This...
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    Wargnies-le-Petit Warhem Warlaing Warneton Wasnes-au-Bac Wasquehal Watten Wattignies Wattignies-la-Victoire Wattrelos Wavrechain-sous-Denain Wavrechain-sous-Faulx...
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    Wargnies-le-Petit Warhem Warlaing Warneton Wasnes-au-Bac Wasquehal Watten Wattignies Wattignies-la-Victoire Wattrelos Wavrechain-sous-Denain Wavrechain-sous-Faulx...
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    fought at Valmy, earning promotion to major. After leading a battalion at Wattignies and successfully holding Philippeville in 1793, he became a general of...
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  • under Bonaparte. Jean-Baptiste Jourdan General; victor at the battles of Wattignies and Fleurus. François Christophe Kellermann Promoted to General early...
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    Siege of Savannah, Battle of Jemappes, Battle of Hondschoote, Battle of Wattignies, Battle of Lambusart, Battle of Fleurus, Siege of Luxembourg, Battle of...
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