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    Grand-Couronne (French pronunciation: [ɡʁɑ̃ kuʁɔn]) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. A small suburban...
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    The Battle of Grand Couronné (French: Bataille du Grand Couronné [Great Crown]) from 4 to 13 September 1914, took place in France after the Battle of the...
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    The Grand Couronné (French pronunciation: [ɡʁɑ̃ kuʁɔne]) is a succession of inliers north and east of the French city of Nancy. It is 30 km long and between...
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    "Duplessy et ses grandes chevauchées" [Duplessy and his great rides]. La Depeche du Midi. July 6, 2017. Retrieved February 12, 2018. "Grand-Couronne accueille...
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  • The Canton of Grand-Couronne is a former canton situated in the Seine-Maritime département and in the Haute-Normandie region of northern France. It was...
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    began during the night of 3 September against the fortifications of the Grand Couronné, either side of Nancy, which pushed back the 2nd Group of Reserve Divisions...
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  • Look up couronne in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Couronne (pl.: Couronnes) is a French word meaning crown. It may refer to: La Couronne, Charente...
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  • The canton of Grand Couronné is an administrative division of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department, northeastern France. It was created at the French canton...
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    1912. In 1915, they were courted by the Ottoman Empire and Germany, and Grand Senussi Ahmed Sharif as-Senussi declared jihad and attacked the Italians...
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    Rouen-Les-Essarts (category Grand Prix motorcycle circuits)
    Essarts" comes from a village, which was included into the commune of Grand-Couronne in 1874. The fastest official race lap records at the Rouen-Les-Essarts...
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  • the Serres Division failed in their assault on 'Pip Ridge' and the Grand Couronné, suffering heavy casualties. The only British troops fit to renew the...
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    during the Battle of Lorraine, the French Second Army retreated to the Grand Couronné heights near Nancy and dug in, on an arc from Pont-à-Mousson to Champenoux...
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  • military justice, Pétain offered more regular and longer leave and an end to grand offensives "until the arrival of tanks and Americans on the front". They...
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    governments championed the prosecution of Armenian genocide perpetrators. Grand Vizier Damat Ferid Pasha publicly recognized that 800,000 Ottoman citizens...
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    the Allies. The US Navy sent a battleship group to Scapa Flow to join the Grand Fleet, and provided convoy escorts. In April 1917, the US Army had fewer...
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    about 10,000 were killed.  Finland From 1809 Finland was an autonomous Grand Duchy in the Russian Empire until the end of 1917. Finland's autonomous...
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    and rocks. Part of the defences was the dangerous Pip Ridge and the Grand Couronné. On the left flank, the British XII Corps with the 22nd and 26th divisions...
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    table before the treaty could be ratified. The Western Europeans and the Grand National Assembly of Turkey signed and ratified the new Treaty of Lausanne...
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    objectives of the attack were the villages of Bazentin le Petit, Bazentin le Grand and Longueval which was adjacent to Delville Wood, with High Wood on the...
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    seized Lemberg in Galicia (now Poland) from Austria-Hungary. Battle of Grand Couronné – The German Sixth Army attacked the regrouping French Second Army in...
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