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    413.72. Following the commissioning of the Sur-les-Bois and Broussous pumping stations (Saint-Georges-sur-Meuse and Flémalle), the Stockay station had to...
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    Saint-Lô (redirect from Gare de Saint Lô)
    Jubé de Laperelle, Auguste (1801). Rapport fait au nom d'une commission spéciale... sur les réclamations de plusieurs citoyens de l'arrondissement de Saint-Lô...
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    Helmuth von Moltke, took the 3rd Army and the new Prussian Army of the Meuse under Albert, Crown Prince of Saxony, and marched on Paris virtually unopposed...
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    Arras (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
    wife Sarra spelled backwards. Arras is Pas-de-Calais' third most populous town after Calais and Boulogne-sur-Mer. The town counted 43,693 residents in...
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    Ham known as "de Bayonne" is in fact a Béarnese ham, made from the pigs of the Aspe and Ossau Valleys. This ham was historically salted at Salies-de-Béarn...
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    Hindenburg Line (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    attacks by American and French armies on 26 September 1918 from Rheims to the Meuse, two British armies at Cambrai on 27 September, British, Belgian and French...
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    Second Battle of the Aisne (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    had been quarried for stone for centuries, leaving a warren of caves and tunnels which were used as shelters by German troops to escape the French bombardment...
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    Reserve Infantry Regiment 71 had to be sent back to Etreillers and then Ham to re-equip. J. Buchan The Battle of the Somme, B. H. Liddell Hart The Real...
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    through the centre of the commune and the village and continues to Sapogne-sur-Marche in the south-east. A small country road crosses the Belgian border...
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