was the codename for an Allied attack on the German-held Channel port of Le Havre in France, during the Second World War. The city had been declared a Festung...

Razzia sur la chnouf (French for "Raid on the Dope") is a 1955 French gangster film directed by Henri Decoin that stars Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura, Lila...

1941, a scheme was put forward for the landing of 12 divisions around Le Havre, assuming a withdrawal of German troops to counter Soviet success in the...

Operation Cycle is the name of the evacuation of Allied troops from Le Havre, in the Pays de Caux of Upper Normandy from 10 to 13 June 1940, towards the...

homeland of the Norman language. Large settlements include Rouen, Caen, Le Havre and Cherbourg. The cultural region of Normandy is roughly similar to the...

France, at the mouth of the Seine, and includes the cities of Rouen and Le Havre. Until 1955 it was named Seine-Inférieure. It had a population of 1,255...

later reclassified as a Third-rank. She was built between 1689 and 1690 at Le Havre, under supervision by engineer Étienne Salicon. She served until 1719,...

to join the expedition of René Goulaine de Laudonnière which departed Le Havre for Florida on April 20, 1564. The expedition resulted in the construction...

1906. The third was a motor ship built in 1929 and destroyed by fire in Le Havre in 1938. Chantiers et Ateliers de Provence built Île de Cuba at Port-de-Bouc...

Retrieved 24 January 2013. van Hoorebeeck, Albert (1979) La vérité sur l'île de Pâques. Le Havre. (in French) Métraux, Alfred (1937) The Kings of Easter Island...

weeks. Prior to the Atlantic Wall decision, following a number of commando raids, on 2 June 1941 Adolf Hitler asked for maps of the Channel Islands. These...

The ports were: IJmuiden, the Hoek van Holland, Dunkirk, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Le Havre, Cherbourg, Saint-Malo, Brest, Lorient, Saint-Nazaire and the Gironde...

Testu's death the following year. Guillaume le Testu was born sometime around 1509–12, in either Le Havre, Normandy or Grasse, Provence. He was one of...

River Seine estuary and the port of Le Havre. It was a large artillery bunker complex between Cherbourg and Le Havre (the largest being the Maisy Battery...

Penzance: 20,255 Le Havre: 248,547 inhabitants Calais: 104,852 Saint-Malo: 50,675 Lannion–Perros-Guirec: 48,990 Saint-Brieuc: 45,879 Boulogne-sur-Mer: 42,537...

north of Le Havre, at the junction of the D940, D139 and D111 roads. France's 2nd largest oil-tanker port (built 1973-1975) and oil depot of ‘’Havre-Antifer’’...

help in the siege of Le Havre. On 29 August, the brigade crossed the Seine to support Operation Astonia, the attack on Le Havre on the following day....

French). Publication Univ Rouen Havre. pp. 69–70. ISBN 978-2-87775-832-1. "Rabat/Salé, la conquête pirate - LeMonde.fr". Le Monde (in French). Archived from...

is located on the southern bank of the estuary of the Seine across from Le Havre and very close to the exit of the Pont de Normandie. The people that inhabit...

ports of Le Havre and Dunkirk. These preparations were exaggerated by the French journals, including the official French government newspaper, Le Moniteur...

A farming village in the Pays de Caux, some 12 miles (19 km) north of Le Havre, at the junction of the D111 and D950 roads. The commune borders the English...

Manche. 1re partie (in French). Le Havre: Lemale & Cie imprimeurs éditeurs. pp. 81–92. Erlande-Brandenburg, Alain (1966). "Le château de Thorigny". Congrès...

so-called Falaise gap between Chambois and Mont Ormel. The liberation of Le Havre followed. This was a significant turning point in the war and led to the...

de la Venise du front". Le Républicain Lorrain (in French). 2014-12-03. Retrieved 2021-03-02. "Libération de Sarreguemines sur Sarreguemines.fr". Archived...

disease devastated the cane plantations in 1863. By the mid-19th century, Le Havre and Marseille were the two main French ports; the former traded with America...

river Lézarde in the Pays de Caux, situated just 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Le Havre, at the junction of the D489, D52, D926 and D31 roads. Pre-Roman archaeological...

the witnesses being the same Giraldus and Robert his son. "Recherches sur le Domesday" under d'Abetot : Aumary d'Abetot, an appellation derived from...

near Le Havre. The illusion was bolstered by a group of small vessels towing barrage balloons. A similar deception was undertaken near Boulogne-sur-Mer...

in France (Fall Rot), the 2nd BEF and Allied troops were evacuated from Le Havre in Operation Cycle (10–13 June) and the French Atlantic and Mediterranean...

2010. Dunkirk has the third-largest harbour in France, after those of Le Havre and Marseille. As an industrial city, it depends heavily on the steel,...