• Thumbnail for Western New York Irish Famine Memorial
    The Western New York Irish Famine Memorial is a memorial to The Great Famine. Situated on La Riviere Street along the waterfront in Buffalo, New York...
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    tributaries are: Rivière du Loup (not to be confused with Rivière du Loup in the Bas-Saint-Laurent), also known as the Rivière Linière Famine River Beaurivage...
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    rivers. Quebec has 2% of all fresh water on the planet. Rivière au Saumon (Baie James) Rivière au Phoque (Baie James) Désenclaves River Roggan River Corbin...
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    Sables (Sandy Creek, New York?), Rivière de la Planche, Rivière de la Grande Famine and Rivière de la Petite Famine. According to Père Charlevoix the...
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    areas, was located between Port-en-Bessin on the west and the Lieu-dit La Rivière in Ver-sur-Mer on the east. High cliffs at the western end of the zone...
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    the 1840s, the town received numerous Irish immigrants, fleeing the Great Famine. Later additional waves of French Canadians migrated from Quebec. Development...
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    across the Chinese border. Most refugees from North Korea during the 1990s famine crossed it, and most recent refugees have also used it, as it is far easier...
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    In 1903, he proclaimed Eugène Francois Magloire Commandant of Grande-Rivière du Nord, General of division of the republic and his honorary aide-de-camp...
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    use today, is a neoclassical work of art. It was built with granite from Rivière-à-Pierre. The plans were drawn by Georges-Émile Tanguay, architect of the...
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    where, as an unyielding landlord, his reputation suffered in the Great Famine. It was a reputation he matched as a coal operator on his wife's land in...
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    commune: Sports Palace of Rivière-des-Pères (1600 seats) Stadium of Rivière-des-Peres (4000 seats) Inter-communal Swimming Pool at Rivière-des-Peres Félix-Éboué...
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    Joseph-Beaubien Robert-Bourassa Pierrefonds Roxboro Pointe-aux-Trembles Rivière-des-Prairies Montreal has the second largest Italian population in Canada...
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    Al-Thani stated the Al-Shifa Hospital siege was a war crime. Nicolas de Rivière, the French ambassador to the United Nations, called for an immediate ceasefire...
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  • The Coacoachou River (French: Rivière Coacoachou) is a river in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada. The river basin covers 408 square kilometres (158 sq mi)...
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    demolition charge into its rear entrance. A second casemated emplacement at La Rivière containing an 88 mm gun had been neutralised by a tank at 07:30. Meanwhile...
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    they would find only meager incomes to feed themselves. Malnutrition and famine became endemic. Nonetheless, Duvalier enjoyed significant support among...
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  • of Rigaud-Vaudreuil, Gentilly, Perthuis, Beauvais, Rivière-Duchesne, and Sainte-Barbe-de-la-Famine. He died in office in Quebec City at the age of 58...
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    and by the end of his life he had become despised. The king ignored the famines and crises of the nation, until the people reviled him in protest, and...
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    Moncton and Campbellton. The following year it would link Halifax with Rivière-du-Loup and the Canadian railway network. One of the biggest geographic...
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    The rivière des Hurons (English: Hurons's River) is a river flowing in the heart of the municipality of Cantons-unis de Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury, located...
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    institution on the grounds of economy alone. Similarly, Pierre-François de Rivière du Puget, the Bastille's lieutenant de roi, submitted reports in 1788 suggesting...
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  • the devastating earthquake of 2010. In 1843, a revolt, led by Charles Rivière-Hérard, overthrew Boyer and established a brief parliamentary rule under...
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    Fort Vaux (category Séré de Rivières system)
    Foundation. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fort Vaux. Les forts Séré de rivières Le fort de Vaux (in French) Memoirs & Diaries: Account of the assaults...
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    at manufacturing facilities. The quake created a landslide dam on the Rivière de Grand Goâve. As of February 2010[update] the water level was low, but...
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    0 mi (2.5–8 km) from the citadel. A programme had been devised by Séré de Rivières in the 1870s to build two lines of fortresses from Belfort to Épinal and...
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    From there they dispatched troops to Miramichi Bay (September 12), Grande-Rivière, Quebec and Pabos (September 13), and Mont-Louis, Quebec (September 14)...
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    Fort Douaumont (category Séré de Rivières system)
    has media related to Fort de Douaumont. (in French) Les forts Séré de Rivières le fort de Douaumont Douaumont ossuary GPS-Teamprojekt Verdun – Somme –...
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    553,000, with Upper Canada reaching about 237,000 individuals. The Great Famine of Ireland of the 1840s had significantly increased the pace of Irish immigration...
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    earlier had left the newly formed Republic of German-Austria in the grip of famine. Reich lived on soup, oats and dried fruit from the university canteen,...
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    capture of Courtonne on 6 March 1418, of Chambrays on the 9th, and of Rivière-Thibonville on the 11th. In May 1420 he was one of the commissioners who...
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