The Battle of Alsace was a military campaign between the Allies, mainly French, and the Germans in Alsace, eastern France, from 20 November 1944 to 19...
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for the Battle of the Bulge but also all losses suffered during the period by units with the "Ardennes-Alsace" battle credit (the entirety of U.S. First...
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The Battle of Mulhouse (German: Mülhausen), also called the Battle of Alsace (French: Bataille d'Alsace), which began on 7 August 1914, was the opening...
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during the 5th century AD, culminating with the Battle of Tolbiac, and Alsace became part of the Kingdom of Austrasia. Under Clovis' Merovingian successors...
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Alsace–Lorraine (German: Elsaß–Lothringen), officially the Imperial Territory of Alsace–Lorraine (German: Reichsland Elsaß–Lothringen), was a territory...
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Army Group Upper Rhine (category Army groups of the German Army in World War II)
in Alsace to hold fast. German Army Group G (Heeresgruppe G) was stripped of defense responsibility for the area around Colmar and the defense of the...
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Lee Miller (category Art Students League of New York alumni)
liberation of Paris, the Battle of Alsace, and the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau. Scherman's iconic photograph of Miller...
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André Lalande (category Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour)
spring of 1944, as well as to the disembarking in Provence in August 1944. He then participated to the Battle of Alsace (French: batailles en Alsace) in...
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The history of Alsace has been influenced by the Rhine and its tributaries, a favorable climate, fertile loess soils, and the region's relative accessibility...
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Frantz Fanon (category French Army personnel of World War II)
early 1945 rejoined his unit and fought in the Battle of Alsace. After German forces had been pushed out of France and Allied troops crossed the Rhine into...
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in Alsace–Lorraine is a series of events which occurred when the region of Alsace–Lorraine passed from German to French sovereignty at the end of World...
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and Thierry of Alsace. The two men were rivals for the title of Count of Flanders. William had been appointed to the title by Louis VI of France following...
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Race to the Sea (category Military operations of World War I involving Germany)
German-French frontier and in southern Belgium on 4 August 1914. The Battle of Mulhouse (Battle of Alsace 7–10 August) was the first French offensive against Germany...
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Franco-Prussian War (redirect from Battle of Sarrebruck)
the Treaty of Frankfurt was signed on 10 May 1871, giving Germany billions of francs in war indemnity, as well as most of Alsace and parts of Lorraine,...
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again at the Battle of Belvoir Castle in 1182 and the Siege of Kerak in 1183. In 1177, King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, and Philip of Alsace who had recently...
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Philip of Alsace, was count of Flanders from 1168 to 1191. During his rule Flanders prospered economically. He took part in two crusades and died of disease...
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The Alsace class was a pair of fast battleships planned by the French Navy in the late 1930s in response to German plans to build two H-class battleships...
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The Battle of Morat took place during the Burgundian Wars (1474–1477) that was fought on 22 June 1476 between Charles the Bold, the Duke of Burgundy,...
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Colmar Pocket (redirect from Battle of the Colmar Pocket)
Poche de Colmar; German: Brückenkopf Elsass) was the area held in central Alsace, France, by the German Nineteenth Army from November 1944 to February 1945...
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Bayeux speeches (redirect from Speech of Bayeux)
two different speeches delivered by General Charles de Gaulle of France in the context of liberation after the Normandy landings in June 1944 and also...
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Strasbourg (redirect from Straßburg, Alsace-Lorraine)
largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France, at the border with Germany in the historic region of Alsace. It is the prefecture of the Bas-Rhin...
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Henri Giraud (category Members of the Constituent Assembly of France (1946))
was seriously wounded while leading a Zouave bayonet charge during the Battle of St. Quentin on 30 August 1914, and was left for dead on the field. He...
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Great Retreat (category Battles of the Western Front (World War I))
southern Belgium on 4 August 1914. The Battle of Mulhouse (Battle of Alsace 7–10 August) was the first French offensive of the First World War against Germany...
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1914–1918: I Le Ballon d'Alsace, le Vieil-Armand, la Route des Crêtes [Alsace and the Battles of the Vosges 1914–1918: I The Ballon d'Alsace, the Vieil-Armand...
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Mulhouse (redirect from Mulhouse, Alsace)
"mill house") is a French city of the European Collectivity of Alsace (Haut-Rhin department, in the Grand Est region of France). It is near the France–Switzerland...
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overlooking the Alsace Plain, Rhine valley and the Black Forest in Germany. Hartmanswillerkopf was captured by the French army during the Battle of Mulhouse...
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by his chief of staff, General Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal, defeated the French under Marshal MacMahon near the village of Wœrth in Alsace, on the Sauer...
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towns of Colmar and Turckheim in Alsace. The French army, commanded by the Viscount of Turenne, defeated the armies of Austria and Brandenburg, led by...
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1944: The Battle of the Bulge. New York: Penguin. ISBN 978-0-1431098-6-0. Cirillo, Roger. The Ardennes-Alsace. The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II...
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1168), commonly known as Thierry of Alsace, was the fifteenth count of Flanders from 1128 to 1168. With a record of four campaigns in the Levant and Africa...
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