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    The Canal de Saint-Quentin (French pronunciation: [kanal də sɛ̃ kɑ̃tɛ̃]) is a canal in northern France connecting the canalised river Escaut in Cambrai...
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    The canal will replace the Canal de Saint-Quentin and the current Canal du Nord, increasing maximum barge capacity from 650 to 4400 tonnes. The canal will...
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    to the public in 1965. The Canal du Nord and the Canal de Saint-Quentin may be supplanted by the Seine–Nord Europe Canal, a projected high capacity link...
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    canal is 71 kilometres (44 mi) long, and has 38 locks. The junction made at La Fère is with a branch of the Canal de Saint-Quentin, while the Canal latéral...
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    Scheldt (redirect from Canal de l'Escaut)
    Cambrai, the Canal de Saint-Quentin follows its course. The port of Antwerp, the second-largest in Europe, developed on its banks. Several canals (including...
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    in northern France that, along with the river Oise, connects the Canal de Saint-Quentin at Chauny to the Seine at Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. See under the...
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    from the English Channel at Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme to the Canal de Saint-Quentin at Saint-Simon. The Somme River was canalized beginning in 1770. The...
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    a commune in the department of Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France. Its location on the Canal de Saint-Quentin and the Creil–Jeumont railway (Tergnier station)...
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    This is a list of the navigable canals and rivers in France. For reference purposes, all waterways are listed, including many that have been abandoned...
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    1918. It was launched from the Hindenburg Line, in the vicinity of Saint-Quentin, France. Its goal was to break through the Allied (Entente) lines and...
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    the Sensée. He worked on the Canal de Saint-Quentin from 1827 to 1849. He engineered the construction of the Mons-Condé Canal from 1800 to 1818. Geiger,...
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    Aisne (category Departments of Hauts-de-France)
    numerous canals (e.g. the Canal of Saint-Quentin, 93 km). There is an average of 500 to 750 mm precipitation annually. Weather Data for Saint Quentin – Roupy...
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    Oise (river) (category Rivers of Hauts-de-France)
    high-capacity Canal Dunkerque-Escaut, east of Arleux. The Seine-Nord Europe Canal will replace the old Canal de Saint-Quentin and the current Canal du Nord...
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    Fourth Army and French First Army would attack the Germans along the Saint-Quentin Canal in an effort to breach the Hindenburg Line between Holnon and Vendhuile...
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    Riqueval Tunnel (category Canal tunnels in France)
    Official site of navigable canals in France (French) Photos site (French) M. M. PUGIN: L’histoire du Canal de Saint-Quentin Dans: Mémoires numérisés, Tome...
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    Canal de Saint-Quentin and other navigable waterways connected to the Escaut River. He also authored a number of academic publications on the canal systems...
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    Battle of Cambrai (1917) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    across the Canal de Saint-Quentin at Masnières. The bridge collapsed under the weight of a tank halting the hopes for an advance across the canal. In the...
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    Chain boat (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    90, 91 and 95. This system is still used at Riqueval Tunnel of Canal de Saint-Quentin in France. Kettenschifffahrt definition in Schifffahrts-Lexikon...
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    Somme (river) (category Rivers of Hauts-de-France)
    to Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, where the maritime canal, once called the canal du Duc d'Angoulême enters the English Channel. The St Quentin Canal, famous...
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    Bernard Vann (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France))
    September 29th, 1918. He led his battalion with great skill across the Canal de Saint-Quentin through a very thick fog and under heavy fire from field and machine...
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    forces broke through the reorganized British line at Jussy on the Canal de Saint-Quentin as British forces continue to fall back. Notable in the battle was...
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    September 1918 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Belgium. Battle of St Quentin Canal – Allied forces attacked and broke through the Hindenburg Line at the Canal de Saint-Quentin in France. The Egyptian...
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  • Saint-Quentin. He built a factory in 1898 on the Quai Gayant (a quay on the Canal de Saint-Quentin) to manufacture his 'Abeille' marine engine. His wife Amélie (née...
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    the line with a series of victories, starting with the Battle of St Quentin Canal on 29 September. The offensive led directly to the Armistice of 11 November...
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    Paris. The Oise Canal and the Canal du Nord pass through the commune. Noyon station is served by regional trains to Creil, Saint-Quentin, Compiègne and...
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    cross three main river obstacles: the Canal de l'Escaut, crossing Cambrai and going to the Canal de Saint-Quentin on the south, the Selle and the Ecaillon...
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    Quentin Roosevelt (November 19, 1897 – July 14, 1918) was the youngest son of President Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Roosevelt. Inspired by his father...
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  • the Order of the British Empire (MBE). France: Croix de Guerre[citation needed] In Saint-Quentin, France, he was adopted by the citizens as a folk hero...
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  • Hérault, France and across the Occitanie region. A canal scene was shot in Montpellier and others at Saint-Affrique - Belmont airport [fr]. At the end of...
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    banned in France. Monsieur Verse and Henri de Melier successively owned the castle. Monsieur de Saint Quentin became the new owner in 1777 and renovated...
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