The Bastion de France was a trading post founded in the sixteenth century by French merchants of Corsican origin who had established themselves in North...
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The ACMAT Bastion is a modern French armoured personnel carrier, manufactured by ACMAT. The Bastion was available to customers in North America and Oceania...
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A bastion is a structure projecting outward from the curtain wall of a fortification, most commonly angular in shape and positioned at the corners of...
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European enclaves in North Africa before 1830 (category Plazas de soberanía)
permanent French presence on the coast, the fortress known as the 'Bastion de France'. Tomasino Lenche completed the building of the Bastion de France in 1560...
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Social Bastion (French: Bastion Social) was a French political movement founded in 2017 by former members of the far-right student association Groupe...
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French and Italian coral fishing companies were interested in the area from as early as 1553. A trade bastion[clarification needed] called "Bastion de...
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Regency of Algiers (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
concerned the re-establishment of the Bastion de France and the rights of French merchants in Algiers, but the Bastion was razed a second time by Ali Bitchin...
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A bastion fort or trace italienne (a phrase derived from non-standard French, meaning 'Italian outline') is a fortification in a style developed during...
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The bastioned system of the Spanish city of Badajoz consists of a military fortification formed by a set of defensive walls, city gates, bridges, forts...
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History of the Regency of Algiers (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
and protect French concessions at the Bastion de France Allow trade in leather and wax. Sanson Napollon [it], head of the Bastion de France, was able to...
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Rocroi (redirect from Rocroi, France)
notable surviving example of a bastion fort. Rocroi was fortified by Francis I of France and expanded by Henry II of France. Because of its strategic location...
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The French Revolution (French: Révolution française [ʁevɔlysjɔ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the...
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XII on the French Republican calendar), Napoleon was granted the title Emperor of the French (Empereur des Français, pronounced [ɑ̃pʁœʁ de fʁɑ̃sɛ]) by...
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Citadelle of Quebec (redirect from La Citadelle de Québec)
The Citadelle of Quebec (French: Citadelle de Québec), also known as La Citadelle, is an active military installation and the secondary official residence...
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Neuf-Brisach (redirect from Neuf-Brisach, France)
two lines of defence, an inner enceinte de sûreté, the bastion wall around the city, and an outer enceinte de combat, a system of concentric star-shaped...
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(1987–1999) Social Bastion (2017–2019) Édouard Drumont Joseph Darnand Jean-Marie Le Pen Marcel Bucard Charles de Gaulle Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque Marc...
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Fortress of Louisbourg (redirect from Forteresse de Louisbourg)
modification; the King's bastion; the Queen's bastion; the Princess bastion; the Maurepas bastion; and the Brouillon bastion. On the eastern side of the...
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Le Bastion 18 : au-delà de la souffrance physique (in English The Bastion 18: Beyond Physical Suffering) is a 35-minute Algerian historical documentary...
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imperial ambitions was tempered only by his view of the German Reich as a bastion against the spread of Communism rather than an allied nation. He had favoured...
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Menton (redirect from Menton, France)
Jean Cocteau Museum. It opened in 2011 and is close to the Bastion Museum. Mirazur is a French haute cuisine restaurant with three Michelin Guide stars...
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the time of the French Wars of Religion (1562–98), the château was again strengthened, with the construction of the western bastion, but during the following...
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Djidjelli expedition (category Naval battles involving France)
They considered Bougie, Bône and Stora, near a French commercial outpost known as the Bastion de France, but eventually chose Djidjelli. This choice led...
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views, of the old bastioned system perfected by Vauban. He followed in many respects the engineer H.J.B. de Bousmard, whose Essai General de Fortification...
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French Louisianians (French: Louisianais), also known as Louisiana French, are French people native to the states that were established out of French...
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was clear: (re)create a European French bastion in Louisiana by making all Louisianans bilingual in International French and English. To accomplish his...
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the Fifth Republic include: Groupe Union Défense is French far-right student association Bastion Social is a nationalist youth movement Unité Radicale...
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Alpes-Maritimes department of France. The Bastion was built in the 17th century by Honoré II, Prince of Monaco. Cocteau restored the Bastion himself, decorating...
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King's Bastion is a coastal bastion on the western front of the fortifications of the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, protruding from the Line...
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a bastion at each of the four corners. The second wooden fort deteriorated somewhat less rapidly but by 1742 was in bad repair. In 1747 the French garrison...
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represented, and flint and sandstone are used in the buildings. A brick bastion and various other buildings have been added to the original enclosure....
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