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    Ambleteuse (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃blətøz]; West Flemish: Ambeltuwe) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. Ambleteuse began...
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    May 1550. He stayed three days and visited the forts of the Boulemberg, Ambleteuse, the Tower of Ardres, the Great Fort and Fort Châtillon (also called Châtillon's...
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    (French: Fort d'Ambleteuse or Fort Vauban) is a sea fort by the commune of Ambleteuse in the Pas-de-Calais, northern France. The fort was built at the end of...
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    Rinxent, Marquise, Beuvrequen, Slack (village near Ambleteuse) and flows into the English Channel in Ambleteuse next to Fort Mahon. Sandre. "Fiche cours d'eau...
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  • Pinckney over the night of 27/28 July 1941. The target for the raid was Ambleteuse, Pas-de-Calais, France. The raiding party were towed across the English...
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    that were following the coast while trying to get into the harbour at Ambleteuse. Expecting an attack of this type, Napoleon had stationed a battery of...
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    lines from Dungeness were part of a network called "Dumbo" and ran to Ambleteuse in France. In 2022 the well-preserved remains of a 16th-century ship were...
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    Sainte-Cécile-Plage Hardelot-Plage Équihen-Plage Wimereux Audresselles Ambleteuse Wissant Blériot-Plage Bray-Dunes From south to north: Merlimont Cucq...
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    dune buggy and a powered paraglider. The takeoff was at 8:03 a.m. from Ambleteuse in the North of France and landing was at East Studdal, near Dover. The...
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    Brigden 2000, p. 192. Quoted in Loach 1999, p. 91. By "Newhaven" is meant Ambleteuse, near Boulogne. Guy 1988, pp. 212–215; Loach 1999, pp. 101–102. Loach...
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  • altitude varies from 0m (Ambleteuse) to 163m (Leubringhen) for an average altitude of 72m. The canton comprised 21 communes: Ambleteuse Audembert Audinghen...
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    of over 65 nmi (120 km). Dungeness would be connected to the port of Ambleteuse. In keeping with the Disney theme suggested by Pluto, the former was codenamed...
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    10 September 2023. Quoted in Loach 1999, p. 91. By "Newhaven" is meant Ambleteuse, near Boulogne. Guy 1988, pp. 212–15; Loach 1999, pp. 101–102 Loach 1999...
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    building of 37 new fortresses, and fortified military harbours, including Ambleteuse, Brest, Dunkerque, Freiburg im Breisgau, Lille (Citadel of Lille), Rochefort...
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  • the English Channel ran aground and was torn apart by rocks off the coast of Ambleteuse, France, killing eight people. Six survivors were hospitalized....
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    and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, which is a burlesque comedy based in the Ambleteuse region of Northern France. Set in 1910, the film tells the unusual story...
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    eighteen transports of cavalry were to sail from a different port, probably Ambleteuse. These ships may have been triremes or biremes, or may have been adapted...
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    Aix-en-Issart Aix-Noulette Alembon Alette Alincthun Allouagne Alquines Ambleteuse Ambricourt Ambrines Ames Amettes Amplier Andres Angres Annay Annequin...
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    France. In 1776, he set up a commission to choose between Cherbourg, Ambleteuse or Boulogne as France's main strategic port for defence of the English...
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  • Abbé Octave Parent (15 June 1882, in Trescault – 9 February 1942, in Ambleteuse) was a French entomologist who specialized in Diptera, mostly the family...
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    Ambleteuse were demoralised by this setback and sortied from the town to set fire to some barns, the royal army was thereby able to enter Ambleteuse....
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    Aix-en-Issart Aix-Noulette Alembon Alette Alincthun Allouagne Alquines Ambleteuse Ambricourt Ambrines Ames Amettes Amplier Andres Angres Annay Annequin...
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    eighteen transports of cavalry were to sail from a different port, probably Ambleteuse. These ships may have been triremes or biremes, or may have been adapted...
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  • carrying migrants breaks apart in the English Channel off the coast of Ambleteuse, killing at least eight passengers. Fifty-one others are rescued. 16–17...
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    000 ft over the coast at Gravelines and set course for Saint-Omer. Near Ambleteuse five Bf 109Fs were sighted one thousand feet above and in front travelling...
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    Aix-en-Issart Aix-Noulette Alembon Alette Alincthun Allouagne Alquines Ambleteuse Ambricourt Ambrines Ames Amettes Amplier Andres Angres Annay Annequin...
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    Germany, 17 other lines (11 HAIS and 6 HAMEL) were laid from Dungeness to Ambleteuse in the Pas-de-Calais. In January 1945, 305 tonnes (300 long tons) of fuel...
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  • an observer again for Operation Chess, a raid on the French coast at Ambleteuse by 16 men of No. 12 Commando. He died on 28 July 1941 on a landing craft...
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    Aix-en-Issart Aix-Noulette Alembon Alette Alincthun Allouagne Alquines Ambleteuse Ambricourt Ambrines Ames Amettes Amplier Andres Angres Annay Annequin...
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  • installations and stocks by the Germans Chess (1941) — commando raid on Ambleteuse, Pas-de-Calais, France Colossus (1941) — Feb. 10, commando raid on Tragino...
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