Nivelles (French pronunciation: [nivɛl] ; Dutch: Nijvel, [ˈnɛi̯vəl] ; Walloon: Nivele) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the Belgian province...
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Atlantics (Occitan) Pirinio Atlantiarrak (Basque) Department Lake of Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle Flag Coat of arms Nickname: 64, P-A Location of Pyrénées-Atlantiques in France...
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This page lists the city flags in Europe. It is a part of the Lists of city flags, which is split into continents due to its size. Copenhagen Tórshavn...
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orders to Nivelle (the new Commander-in-Chief of French forces on the Western Front) and Sarrail (Commander-in-Chief at Salonika); Nivelle's predecessor...
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Belgian Grand Prix (section Zolder and Nivelles)
their arms to try to make the field stop while waving yellow flags instead of red flags. The cars went by at full racing speeds. When they came back again...
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fell in succession after hard fighting, and he withdrew towards the river Nivelle. The losses were about—Allies, 800; French, 1,600. The passage of the Bidassoa...
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December Joffre was replaced as supreme commander by Robert Nivelle. In late January Nivelle learned of the heavy tank project from Estienne. He was much...
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Sharpe alone. Girdwood suffers a nervous breakdown during the Battle of Nivelle, as the South Essex Regiment joins the British Army's invasion of French...
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England expects that every man will do his duty (category Signal flags)
flags. The signal is still hoisted on the Victory at her dry dock in Portsmouth on Trafalgar Day (21 October) every year, although the signal flags are...
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Meuse–Argonne offensive in late September 1918. In December 1916, Robert Nivelle replaced Pétain as commander of French armies on the Western Front and...
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Jean de Nivelle is an opera in three acts by Léo Delibes to a French libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille. It premiered on 6 March 1880 at the...
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Chapelle-lez-Herlaimont, Estinnes, Le Roeulx, Manage, Morlanwelz, Seneffe, Nivelles, Charleroi and La Louvière have a tradition of Gilles at carnival, but...
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David Lloyd George (section Nivelle affair)
rationing, and stimulated farming. After supporting the disastrous French Nivelle Offensive in 1917, he had to reluctantly approve Field Marshal Haig's plans...
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Fort Detroit Chateauguay Chrysler's Farm Vittoria Pyrenees St Sebastien Nivelle Nive Orthes Toulouse The Battle of Maida in 1806 was commemorated by a...
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Vexillology of the Eureka Rebellion (category Historical flags)
under the flags of several nations, including the Irish tricolour, the saltire of Scotland, the Union Jack, revolutionary French and German flags, and the...
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Timeline of World War I (1917–1918) (section Nivelle Offensive and French Army mutinies (April–June 1917))
even in divisions with good combat records. In December 1916, Robert Nivelle replaced Pétain as commander of French armies on the Western Front and...
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Mary of Burgundy. At that time the Duchy extended from Luttre, south of Nivelles to 's Hertogenbosch, with Leuven as the capital city. The subsequent history...
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front in northern Greece. In France, the First Brigade participated in the Nivelle Offensive; with news of the Russian Revolution affecting morale within...
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district (arrondissement in French), the arrondissement of Nivelles, with 27 municipalities. Nivelles District: Beauvechain (Bevekom) Braine-l'Alleud (Eigenbrakel)...
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the government, consultative member of the War Committee", with Robert Nivelle as commander-in-chief of the Armies of the North and Northeast. It is unclear...
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intense bombardment coordinated by his artillery commander General Robert Nivelle. Then a double creeping barrage led the infantry into the shattered first...
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Paul M. G. Lévy (category Flag designers)
Democratic Union (UDB-BDU) party. In 1946, he was elected deputy for the Nivelles region as the only successful candidate of the UDB-BDU. He resigned to...
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Battle of La Malmaison (section Nivelle Offensive)
of the 1917 campaign in the First World War, which had begun with the Nivelle Offensive. The French captured the village and fort of La Malmaison and...
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at the crossing of the main routes between Charleroi and Brussels, and Nivelles and Leuven. It was originally built in 1895 as the home of a French industrialist...
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February 1917 the OHL was sure that the new French commander, General Robert Nivelle, would attack, and correctly foresaw that he would try to pinch off the...
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Saint Begga in Andenne. Gertrude of Nivelles, (ca.628–659), abbess, who, with her mother Itta, founded the Nivelles Abbey; younger sister of St. Begga...
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was the Battle of the Bidassoa on 7 October, followed by the Battle of Nivelle in November. The French garrison at Pamplona surrendered to the Spanish...
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commander in 1916 – as an ally of the controversial French General Robert Nivelle in early 1917. Later in 1917 he was informal military advisor to British...
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Points scoring systems National colours Sponsorship liveries Racing flags Red-flagged races Female drivers TV broadcasters Fatalities Video games Records...
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French Community Region Wallonia Province Walloon Brabant Arrondissement Nivelles Government • Mayor Julie Chantry (Ecolo) • Governing party/ies Ecolo-Avenir-PS...
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