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    Neuf-Brisach (French pronunciation: [nœfbrizak] or [nøbrizak]; German: Neubreisach; Alsatian: Nei-Brisach) is a fortified town and commune of the department...
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    Breisach (redirect from Brisach)
    north of Basel near the Kaiserstuhl. A bridge leads over the Rhine to Neuf-Brisach, Alsace. Its name is Celtic and means breakwater. The root Breis can...
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  • Neuf-Brisach is a French former canton in the arrondissement of Colmar in the département Haut-Rhin, Alsace. It had 17,149 inhabitants (2012). It was disbanded...
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    citadel and fortified town walls with 25 sentry posts. The ville neuve in Neuf-Brisach, Haut-Rhin is located close to the German border with France. Built from...
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    The French retreat from the Rhine after 1697 required new fortresses; Neuf-Brisach was the most significant, designed on Vauban's 'third system', and completed...
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    railway. However the railway bridge over the Rhine between Breisach and Neuf-Brisach was destroyed in 1945 and never replaced. Senior high schools in Colmar...
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    Soultz-Haut-Rhin, Bergheim, Hunspach, Seebach, Turckheim, Eguisheim, Neuf-Brisach, Ferrette, Niedermorschwihr and the gardens of the blue house in Uttenhoffen...
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    on the railway bridge supplying the Germans in the Colmar Pocket at Neuf-Brisach. The division's 7th Infantry Regiment pushed to the south, clearing the...
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    Canal or embranchement de Colmar, 23 km (14 mi) long, from a new lock at Neuf-Brisach to Colmar; and a 34 km (21 mi) lateral canal starting from a new entrance...
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  • The Neuf-Brisach fortification perimeter is complicated. The shortest path around it is along its convex hull....
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    Aerial photograph of Neuf-Brisach, a fortress in use during the Napoleonic Wars...
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    Freiburg im Breisgau and the command of fortresses at Strasbourg and Neuf-Brisach. The 1st and 2nd Bavarian brigades, 55th Landwehr Brigade, Landwehr Regiment...
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    riviera Fort Legarde, Prats-de-Mollo-la-Preste, Pyrénées-Orientales Neuf-Brisach, Haut Rhin Le Château-d'Oléron, Charente-Maritime Perpignan, Languedoc-Roussillon...
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  • Traditionally neuf is also pronounced /nø/ before a consonant-initial noun, adjective or month name, like its homophone neuf meaning "new" (see Neuf-Brisach). dix...
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  • Priarius fought the Western Roman Empire at Battle of Argentovaria, near Neuf-Brisach, France, in which he was defeated and killed. Hussey, Joan Mervyn (1957)...
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    school, he briefly obtained employment as an apprentice locksmith in Neuf-Brisach (now part of France) before opting at age 15 to enrol in a military academy...
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    Mulhousesubpr Munchhouse Munster Muntzenheim Munwiller Murbach Nambsheim Neuf-Brisach Neuwiller Niederentzen Niederhergheim Niedermorschwihr Niffer Oberbruck...
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    Aire 500 Phalsbourg 600 Arras 1000 Strasbourg 3000 Boulogne 300 Sélestat 1000 Saint-Venant 300 Neuf-Brisach and Fort Mortier 1000 Lille 3000 Belfort 1000...
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    set a world best mark on 27 October 1974 with a 2:46:24 performance in Neuf-Brisach, France, then recaptured it from American Jacqueline Hansen on 1 May...
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  • responsible strategic sourcing. With plants in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and Neuf-Brisach, France, the company has the capacity to recycle the equivalent of 23...
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    Mulhousesubpr Munchhouse Munster Muntzenheim Munwiller Murbach Nambsheim Neuf-Brisach Neuwiller Niederentzen Niederhergheim Niedermorschwihr Niffer Oberbruck...
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    extended time as 2:46:37 2:46:24 Chantal Langlacé  France October 27, 1974 Neuf-Brisach, France IAAF, ARRS 2:43:54.5 Jacqueline Hansen  United States December...
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  • Canal and the Rhine toward Neuf Brisach and the Brisach Bridge. Synchronizing the attacks, the bridge was seized and Neuf Brisach captured by crossing the...
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    Vauban's star-shaped fortified city of Neuf-Brisach...
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  • filmed at the artillery barracks at Colmar (built by Wilhelm II) and at Neuf-Brisach on the Upper Rhine. The interiors were shot at Epinay and Billancourt...
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    Germans in the Vosges. He was initially held at a prisoner-of-war camp in Neuf-Brisach and then in the Oflag XII-B in the citadel of Mainz. In Mainz, he became...
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    Landau, La Petite-Pierre, Huningue, Sélestat, Lichtenberg, Phalsbourg, Neuf-Brisach and Belfort. This was the second largest of Austria's contingents. Its...
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    Mulhousesubpr Munchhouse Munster Muntzenheim Munwiller Murbach Nambsheim Neuf-Brisach Neuwiller Niederentzen Niederhergheim Niedermorschwihr Niffer Oberbruck...
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    taking the remainder prisoner. Two days later, Company B advanced to Neuf-Brisach. By 8 February, the city of Colmar surrendered to combined Allied forces...
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    Alsace). The line crossed the river Rhine on a bridge between Breisach and Neuf-Brisach. Since that bridge was destroyed in 1945, the line from Freiburg has...
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