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    The Pointe de Grave (in occitan : Punta de Grava) is the northernmost tip of the Médoc Peninsula and marks the Northern end of the pine-clad sandy Landes...
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    island of Oléron north of the Gironde, and a stretch from Pointe de Grave to Saint-Vivien-de-Médoc and Vensac to its south. The Royan pocket was fully...
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    southwestern France. The city is mid-way between Bordeaux and the Pointe de Grave, along the Gironde, the largest estuary in western Europe. The town...
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  • of colonel Raymond Chomel. South, pockets of La Rochelle, Royan and Pointe de Grave, 12,000 men under command of colonel Henri Adeline. These French troops...
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    forces and played a critical role in the Pointe de Grave battle with their Gernika Battalion (Gironde). De Gaulle commented, "France will never forget...
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    Second World War, it participated particularly in the fighting at Pointe de Grave in April 1945. Disbanded in 1946, its traditions were preserved by...
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    Within the estuary between the Pointe de Grave at the seaward end and the Bec d'Ambès are a series of small islands. The Île de Patiras is 200 hectares (490...
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    Wallace and Ewart in Coalfish had been captured at daybreak near the Pointe de Grave lighthouse where they had come ashore. By the end of the second night...
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    do Castelo, Valença. The EV1 running alongside a tourist railway, Pointe de Grave, France. The EV1 in the coastal pine forest in Médoc connecting the...
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    the station of La Pointe-de-Grave at Le Verdon-sur-Mer connects through the Médoc region to Bordeaux-Saint-Jean station. The Tramways de Royan provided mainly...
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  • Les poches de l'Atlantique: Les batailles oubliées de la Libération Janvier 1944 - mai 1945, Tallandier, ISBN 979-10-210-0492-4 Sortir de la Seconde Guerre...
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    Cracovie. The other branch starts at Gare de Blanquefort and runs alongside the SNCF line to Pointe-de-Grave [fr] as far as Ausone, from where it follows...
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  • F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas (category British recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
    via Tours, Limoges and Bordeaux - finally sailing to England from Pointe de Grave. Before embarking on a ship to England he purchased a postcard from...
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    Bordeaux-Saint-Jean – Langon Bordeaux-Saint-Jean – Hendaye Bordeaux-Saint-Jean – Pointe de Grave Bordeaux-Saint-Jean – Pau Bordeaux-Saint-Jean – Coutras Bordeaux-Saint-Jean...
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    pilot Marcel Doret, one such unit attacked German forces at Royan and Pointe de Grave, performing strafing runs upon enemy artillery positions, as well as...
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    participated in particular in the fighting at Pointe de Grave in April 1945. On April 22, 1945, General de Gaulle awarded the Somali battalion a citation...
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    Western Europe. This forest forms a vast triangle extending from the Pointe de Grave, north of Soulac-sur-Mer, to Hossegor in the south and Nérac in the...
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    September – During the ceremony marking the unveiling of a plaque at Pointe de Grave celebrating Franco-American friendship, American ambassador William...
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    Pic de la Grave 3,628 m Pic de Neige Cordier 3,614 m Aiguille du Plat de la Selle 3,597 m Les Rouies 3,589 m Olan 3,564 m La Plaret 3,564 m Pointe Piaget...
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    accuracy in the Eighth Air Force. They destroyed a German battery at Pointe de Grave, on the west coast of France and scored a 100 per cent strike. The...
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    1945, to participate to the clearing of Royan Pocket and Pointe de Grave (French: poche de Royan). The latter went back east on April 23, 1945, to garrison...
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    from Paris. The most important trunk roads begin on the parvis of Notre Dame de Paris at a point known as point zéro (kilometre zero). In order to cover the...
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    [ʒɑ̃ batist pwɛ̃ dy sɑbl]; also spelled Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable, or Pointe du Sable; before 1750 – August 28, 1818) is...
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  • September 4 – During the ceremony marking the unveiling of a plaque at Pointe de Grave, France celebrating Franco-American friendship, U.S. Ambassador William...
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    on 4 September 1938 at the unveiling of a commemorative plaque at Pointe de Grave honouring La Fayette's departure to America in 1777 and the arrival...
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    chemin de fer de Grande Ceinture et de Petite Ceinture and the two national administrations, chemins de fer d'Alsace-Lorraine (AL) and chemins de fer de l'État...
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    Ravezies–Pointe-de-Grave Saint-Sever–Hagetmau Siorac-en-Périgord–Cazoulès (abandoned beyond Sarlat-la-Canéda) Abandoned: Marmande–Mont-de-Marsan Nérac–Mont-de-Marsan...
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    237 m Aiguille de l'Épaisseur, 3,230 m Pointe Salvador, 3,202 m Pic des Trois Évêchés, 3,116 m Pointe des Lauzettes, 3,053 m Pointe de Pierre Fendue,...
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  • Parempuyre Pauillac Pessac Podensac La Pointe-de-Grave Portets Preignac La Réole Saint-André-de-Cubzac Saint-Denis-de-Pile Sainte-Eulalie-Carbon-Blanc Sainte-Foy-la-Grande...
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    Lazaretto, and Chiberta. The sandy coast starts 200 km north at the Pointe de Grave on the shore of the estuary of the Gironde and ends in Anglet. It is...
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