La Bassée (French pronunciation: [la bas'e]) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. La Bassée was the birthplace of the painter and draftsman...

Division Totenkopf machine-gunned 97 British and French prisoners near the La Bassée Canal. The British prisoners were from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Norfolk...

army occupied La Bassée and Neuve Chapelle. Around 15 October, the British recaptured Givenchy-lès-la-Bassée but failed to recover La Bassée. German reinforcements...

Givenchy-lès-la-Bassée (French pronunciation: [ʒivɑ̃ʃi lɛ la base], literally Givenchy near La Bassée; Picard: Givinchy-lès-l’Bassée) is a commune in the...

tried a flanking move between La Bassée and Armentières but the French cavalry stopped the Germans north of La Bassée Canal. The German 4th Cavalry Corps...

October, the Battle of Langemarck from 21 to 24 October, the battles at La Bassée and Armentières to 2 November, coincident with more Allied attacks at...

site at Essex Farm. During the winter of 1917–18 the company was in the La Bassée sector, engaged in defensive tunnel warfare and in constructing deep concrete...

coal-mine. Givenchy-lès-la-Bassée is a village some 27 kilometres (17 mi) north of Arras and about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) west of La Bassée and the memorial to...

Tourcoing, 1930. Notes Hughes, "Adam de la Bassée". Hughes, "The Ludus", 2. Sources Hughes, Andrew. "Adam de la Bassée". Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online...

Antwerp, La Bassée, Armentières, Messines and Ypres October–November 1914". Military Operations France and Belgium, 1914: Antwerp, La Bassée, Armentières...

expected to be made by the Tenth Army and to fix German troops north of La Bassée Canal. The attack was an unmitigated disaster on the part of the British...

of War ordered the garrison to leave the city and move between La Bassée and Aire-sur-la-Lys. On 25 August, the German 1st Army reached the outskirts of...

north end of the Artois plateau, from Lens to La Bassée, as the First Army took Aubers Ridge from La Bassée to Lille, a further advance of 10–15 mi (16–24 km)...

defensive line, the British II Corps assembled with the 5th Division from La Bassée Canal north to Beau Puits, the 3rd Division from Illies to Aubers and...

on 22 June/23 June 1916 at Shaftesbury Avenue Mine, near Givenchy-lès-la-Bassée, France. Hackett died in an attempt to help fellow miners when a tunnel...

group (b. 1850) Battle of La Bassée - British and French soldiers attempted to recover the northern French city of La Bassée from occupying German forces...

the Hauts-de-France region of France. Until 1926 it was named Auchy-lez-La-Bassée. A small ex-coal mining town, now mostly a light engineering and farming...

27 May 1940 at La Bassée, during the Battle of Dunkirk which preceded it. He is buried in the communal cemetery at Givenchy-lès-la-Bassée. A memorial service...

battles including the Battle of Ypres, Battle of Armentières, Battle of La Bassée, Battle of Lens, Battle of Loos, and Battle of Cambrai on the Western...

technique itself had existed in Greek and Roman times. Boilly was born in La Bassée in northern France, the son of a local wood sculptor. A self-taught painter...

reinforcements to try another flanking move further north at the Battle of La Bassée (10 October – 2 November). The reciprocal flanking moves ended when both...

mines beneath the positions of the Indian Sirhind Brigade in Givenchy-lès-la-Bassée. Following their simultaneous detonation, an infantry attack resulted...

Cateau, First Battle of the Marne, First Battle of the Aisne, Battle of La Bassée and the Battle of Messines. By September 1914, only 6 officers and 200...

British lines at Givenchy-lès-la-Bassée (Givenchy) and followed up by infantry attacks from the village northwards to La Quinque Rue. The trenches either...

frustrated, during the Battle of Arras in early October and the battles of La Bassée, Armentières and Messines. The "race" ended on the North Sea coast of...

(Basilique-cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-la-Treille) Citadel of Lille Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille Jardin botanique de la Faculté de Pharmacie Jardin botanique...

they were moved to the Ypres Salient and took part in the Battle of La Bassée in October 1914.</ref> In March 1915, the 7th (Meerut) Division was chosen...

area was considered by the British to be drier than Loos, Givenchy-lès-la-Bassée (Givenchy) and Plugstreet (Ploegsteert) Wood further south. The Second...

action in the early 1640s, taking part in sieges at Arras, Aire-sur-la-Lys, la Bassée and Bapaume in 1640–41 and Collioure and Perpignan in 1642. Whether...

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