construction of the levee system belongs to the United States Army Corps of Engineers, while responsibility for maintenance belongs to the local levee districts...

of all. Thus, the levée en masse was created and understood as a means to defend the nation by the nation. Historically, the levée en masse heralded the...

Speakers of American English use the word levee, from the French word levée (from the feminine past participle of the French verb lever, 'to raise')...

2018. "Charlotte Mbango en route pour le dernier voyage: les photos de la levée de corps". Journal du Cameroun (in French). June 16, 2009. Retrieved August...

voix de la Première dame s'est tue". Retrieved 17 March 2023. Actu Cameroun (28 October 2022). "Nécrologie : vivez en images la levée de corps d'Enanga...

(2006-06-01). "Corps: Levees' design caused deadly failure". Usatoday.Com. Retrieved 2014-07-13. "Report finds obvious design flaws doomed levees - Houston...

Jersey Legal French, also known as Jersey French (French: français de Jersey), was the official dialect of French used administratively in Jersey. Since...

aniamey.com. Retrieved 15 January 2021. ONEP (6 April 2020). "Cérémonie de levée de corps à l'Assemblée nationale : Hommage à la députée Aichatou Mainassara...

1927 a levee was blown up with dynamite to prevent the flooding of New Orleans. Again during record-breaking flooding in 2011, the US Army Corps of Engineers...

The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is the military engineering branch of the United States Army. A direct reporting unit (DRU), it has...

investigations concluded that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which had designed and built the region's levees decades earlier, was responsible for the...

destroy the imperialist esprit-de-corps. This marked the effective disbandment of the Imperial Army. The French "Levée en masse" method of conscription...

of desalination. The United States Army Corps of Engineers constructed "saltwater sills" or "underwater levees" to contain this in 1988, 1999, 2012, and...

a day.[citation needed] On September 5, 2005, the Army Corps of Engineers started to fix levee breaches by dropping huge sandbags from Chinook helicopters...

distrust in all the persons who do not know me" Nevertheless, following the Levée en Masse the troops under his command were being rapidly reinforced with...

their professionalism and strong esprit de corps. With a strength of over 17,000 men as of 2022, the Troupes de Marine consist of 26 regiments and amount...

level" for the 2007 hurricane season. The Corps of Engineers divided the 4.8 miles (7.7 km) of walls and levee into 36 sections to analyze just how much...

they are entrusted". After the 2005 levee failures in Greater New Orleans, the commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Lt Gen Carl Strock P.E...

Retrieved 29 May 2024. "Crise en Nouvelle-Calédonie : ce que va changer la levée de l'état d'urgence mardi". Franceinfo. 27 May 2024. Archived from the original...

Guard Hussar Regiment, followed by a levée at Christiansborg Palace for the diplomatic corps. On day three, a levée was held for officers from the Defence...

extreme flooding, the US Army Corps of Engineers may open the Morganza Spillway and other spillways to relieve pressure on levees and control structures along...

not been able to salvage the island. The Army Corps of Engineers left the Isle de Jean Charles out of levee projects, in part due to the $100 million additional...

pages 259–274 L'ilote, Revue Trois, Montréal, 1990 A quelle heure est la levée dans le désert ?, Ed. Trois, Laval, Québec, 1990 (          ), (prononcer...

The first of them (Régiments de Picardie, Piémont, Navarre and Champagne) were called Les Vieux Corps (The Old Corps). It was normal policy to disband...

June 1953) was an English physician, officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps and a double recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest award for...

levee but hold the levee materials in place. The action came after the Corps reported there were multiple sand boils on the airport side of the levee...

the levee, which was built by the Corps in 1936 as part of its water management program in the region. With the levee in failing condition, the Corps was...

control, navigation, and environmental projects and studies by the Army Corps of Engineers. Some of the important LCA Projects include: 1. The Mississippi...

In late August 1793, instigated by Lazare Carnot, France introduced the levée en masse, a mass conscription of young unmarried men. Also in late August...

Society of Civil Engineers. The Bonnet Carré Crevasse was one of several levee breaches in the Bonnet Carré area in 1871. Local drainage systems were unable...