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    The Army of the Vosges (French: Armée des Vosges) was a volunteer force placed under the command of Giuseppe Garibaldi, formed in order to ensure the defense...
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  • County 5,896 County of Romania. Eure-et-Loir 5,880 Department of France. Vosges 5,874 Department of France. Tuyên Quang Province 5,870.40 Province of Vietnam...
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    that Mithraism may have survived in certain remote cantons of the Alps and Vosges into the 5th century. According to Mark Humphries, the deliberate concealment...
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    during Caesar's own consulship – and he defeated them at the Battle of Vosges. Wintering in northeastern Gaul near the Belgae in the winter of 58–57,...
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    26 July to 11 August. After the truce, Macron still did not signal any intent to appoint her and called party leaders meeting in Élysée on 23 August,...
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  • 180 sites throughout Paris, including at Rue de la Huchette, Place des Vosges, Les Invalides, Place de la Concorde, Notre-Dame, the Latin Quarter and...
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    for this injury. The Colmar Pocket, 850 square miles (2,200 km2) in the Vosges Mountains, had been held by German troops since November 1944. On 14 January...
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    Moltke planned for a contingency where the French attacked from Metz to the Vosges Mountains and the Germans defended on the left (southern) wing, until all...
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  • that colonialism diverted France from liberating the "blue line of the Vosges", in reference to Alsace-Lorraine; and the "colonial lobby" such as Jules...
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    soldiers began to flee during a sudden night attack by the Germans in the Vosges Mountains; Truman succeeded at ordering his men to stay and fight, using...
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    also called the Ecological and Social Popular Front, was announced with an intent to "build an alternative to Emmanuel Macron and fight the racist project...
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    and tournaments. On 30 June 1559, a tournament was held near Place des Vosges to celebrate the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis with his longtime enemies, the...
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    et les Combats des Vosges 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...
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    it: he thought colonization was a diversion from the "blue line of the Vosges" mountains, that is revanchism and the patriotic urge to reclaim the Alsace-Lorraine...
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  • hops the Atlantic to Paris…Ross uses the Marais district and the Place des Vosges with a similarly fresh and unnerving eye…Ross is one to keep an eye on."...
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    Geilo, Bishop of Langres, as rex in Gallia on 20 May 885 at Grand in the Vosges in southern Lorraine. Although Geilo even developed a special West Frankish...
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  • by The Bodley Head in the UK and by Putnam in the US. Set near St Die in Vosges in France, the main protagonist - rich Harvey Gotham, lives in a small cottage...
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  • Meuse, Moselle, Nièvre, Orne, Paris, Sarthe, Somme, Territoire de Belfort, Vosges and Yonne. For more information, see the List of French departments by population...
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  • Hartjenstein, Werner Rohde, Peter Straub, Emil Brüttel, Magnus Wochner, Franz Berg Vosges Mountains, Nazi Germany July – August 1944 June 1, 1946 Four SOE agents...
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    Corréziens) Piscine Saint-Lazare Club du Soleil de Nancy Club du Soleil des Vosges Club naturiste de la Meuse Lorraine Nature de Thionville Piscine Ronde Thermale...
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    Lost Texas Battalion of the 36th Infantry Division, in the forests of the Vosges Mountains in northeastern France. Captain Marion Frederic Ramírez de Arellano...
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    some years. In 876, Charles the Bald invaded eastern Lotharingia with the intent to capture it, but was defeated near Andernach by Louis's son, Louis the...
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    Natzweiler-Struthof was a Nazi concentration camp located in the Vosges Mountains close to the villages of Natzweiler and Struthof in the Gau Baden-Alsace...
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  • (also known as the Stern Gang), who were wearing Israeli army uniforms, intent on assassinating Bernadotte. Both Bernadotte and Sérot were killed. The...
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    General Michaud's Army of the Rhine attempted two offensives in July in the Vosges, the second of which was successful but not followed up, allowing for a...
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    Vietnamese troops served in direct combat functions at both the Battle of the Vosges and the Battle of Verdun. French Indochinese battalions were also used in...
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    "La Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine", when Sarkozy declared his intent to create a "new comprehensive development project for Greater Paris". The...
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    Bitche and Saverne, hoping to join French forces on the other side of the Vosges mountains. The German 3rd army did not pursue the French but remained in...
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    can be refusal to follow specific ride safety instructions, or deliberate intent to break park rules. The result of a guest's known, or unknown, health issues...
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  • Gaul. Julius Caesar defeated the Suebi forces in 58 BC in the Battle of Vosges and forced Ariovistus to retreat across the Rhine. Augustus, first Roman...
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