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    The véhicule blindé de combat d'infanterie (English: armoured infantry fighting vehicle) or VBCI is a French Infantry fighting vehicle designed and manufactured...
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  • Saumur (French: Académie de Saumur) was a Huguenot university at Saumur in western France. It existed from 1593, when it was founded by Philippe de Mornay...
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    Battle of Saumur occurred during the last stages of the Battle of France during World War II, when officer cadets from the Cavalry School at Saumur, led by...
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    war depot of the 6th Engineer Regiment which supported the combats of the Cadets of Saumur. Captain Schneider was cited for the defensive mounted on the...
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    from which it is not actually descended. Its training establishment is the Saumur Cavalry School. The employment doctrine of the Arme blindée et cavalerie...
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    a second lieutenant on 1 October 1910. He then went on to the Saumur Cavalry School. De Lattre was assigned to the 12th Dragoon Regiment [fr], which was...
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    Saint-Chamond (tank) (category Forges et Aciéries de la Marine et d'Homécourt)
    (in French) Saumur Tank Museum St. Chamond tank @ 5 Star General site Video of newly restored (2017) Saint-Chamond test drive at Saumur armoured vehicle...
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    ELC bis was on display as an exhibit in the Museum of Armored Vehicles in Saumur until the 2nd half of 2017, when it was moved to the museum's military reserve...
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    Cavalry School in Saumur, from which he graduated first in his class on 8 August 1925. Hauteclocque's older brother Guy had married Madeleine de Gargan, the...
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  • du Renseignement de l’Armée de Terre (ERAT) - Army Intelligence School, in Saumur École d’État-major (EEM) - Staff School, in Saumur École du Matériel...
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    peasants escorted him towards Saumur, which was then held by the royalist Vendéens since June 1793 (see Battle of Saumur). In one of his interrogations...
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    French Army (redirect from Armée de Terre)
    basis of the staff of the Armoured and Cavalry Branch Training School at Saumur. In the late 1970s an attempt was made to form 14 reserve light infantry...
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    Armoured Cavalry Arm and joined the Saumur Cavalry School within his specialty, promotion « lieutenant Charles de Foucauld ». He was a section platoon...
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    men-at-arms in the province for the combats of the Sixth War. At first he served again in Languedoc, seeing combat at Carcassonne. By this time however...
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    markings (v0 1780) written on the cartridge of an OFL 120 G1 displayed at the Saumur Armored Museum. When the round reaches the end of the barrel, the muzzle...
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    rounded front plates. It was previously part of the Musée des Blindés in Saumur, France Jagdpanzer IV L/48 Deutsches Panzermuseum in Munster, Germany. It...
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    Montsoreau (category Plus Beaux Villages de France)
    2018. Retrieved 8 October 2018. "99 – Combat des Cadets de Saumur sur la Loire" [Battle of the Cadets of Saumur on the Loire]. anac-fr.com (in French)...
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    "División de Bienestar". "Comité Permanent des Fêtes de Saumur - Festival 2011". www.comitedesfetes-saumur.fr. Retrieved 2020-06-15. "Banda de Conciertos...
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    Luchs (tank) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    there are only 2 surviving today. These are:  France — Musée des Blindés in Saumur, chassis number 200164.  United Kingdom — Bovington Tank Museum, chassis...
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    Ausf. G. Patriot Park, Kubinka, Russia. One StuH 42. Musée des Blindés, Saumur France. Two StuG IIIs, a StuG III Ausf. G and a StuH 42. The Australian...
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    Saumur, Angoulême and Bourges. Niort capitulated to the terms Catherine had negotiated after some effort, but the governor of Angoulême, the baron de...
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    Obice de 75/18 modello 35 on display at the Musée des Blindés in Saumur...
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    Goliath tracked mine (category Unmanned ground combat vehicles)
    the Musée du Débarquement Utah Beach, Normandy, France Musée des Blindés, Saumur, France Musee No. 4 Commando, Ouistreham, Normandy, France the Canadian...
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    Saumur No.1. Tokyo, Japan: Dai Nippon Kaiga Co. ISBN 9784499205436. Jentz, Thomas; Doyle, Hilary (1995). Germany's Panther Tank The Quest For Combat Supremacy...
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    HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-711228-9. Wikimedia Commons has media related to FCM 36. Musée des blindés de Saumur (in French) 1936 FCM 36. Chars-francais.net....
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    in Saumur. A World War I monument near Coligny Caserne in Orléans features this artillery piece. Mle 1919/28 is exhibited in the Amis du Musée de l'Artillerie...
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    Phoney War (redirect from Drole de guerre)
    The Phoney War (French: Drôle de guerre; German: Sitzkrieg) was an eight-month period at the outset of World War II during which there were virtually no...
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    The Restoration of a panzer IV in running condition to the Tank Museum of Saumur The German workhorse: Panzer IV Why the Panzer IV was NOT the Workhorse...
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    garrison without any history. In 1870, the regiment participated to combats of the Armée de la Loire. During the Paris Commune in 1871, the regiment participated...
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    Le Livre des tournois (category Combat treatises)
    the book is different from that of the pas d'armes held at Razilly and Saumur; conspicuously absent are the allegorical and chivalresque ornamentations...
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