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unusual facts about Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley and Pittsburgh Railroad


Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad

The Oil Creek and Titusville operates over tracks that were originally built as the main line of the Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railroad in the 1880s; trackage in Titusville was originally owned by the Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley and Pittsburgh Railroad.


3rd Royal Tank Regiment

All its tanks were lost, and many personnel killed or taken prisoner, but some escaped to Dunkirk or were evacuated from Calais before the port fell.

Alexander Bryukhankov

In 2010, Bryukhankov represented Mulhouse Olympique Tri. At the opening triathlon in Dunkirk (23 May 2010), Bryukhankov placed 21st and was the second best of his club (the other two triathlètes classants l'équipe: Valentin Mesheryakov: 19th, Francesc Godoy: 47th).

Arcelor

The main production sites of flat steel products are Ghent-Zelzate, Dunkirk, Avilés, Gijón, Fos-sur-Mer, Piombino, Liège, Florange, Bremen, Eisenhüttenstadt and recently São Francisco do Sul in Brazil.

Bárbara Riveros

In 2011, Riveros represents Tri Val de Grey and won the opening triathlon in Nice (24 April 2011), and she placed third at the second Grand Prix triathlon in Dunkirk (22 May 2011) behind Andrea Hewitt and Emma Moffatt.

BBC Allied Expeditionary Forces Programme

On 7 January 1940, this was supplemented by a station aimed at British forces serving at home (and, until Dunkirk, in France and Belgium), the BBC Forces Programme.

Christiansø Fortress

In the early 17th century the struggle between the Netherlands Navy and the Dunkirk pirates had spread into Norwegian coastline waters in the South of Norway (Sørlandet).

Claude Antoine, comte Prieur-Duvernois

In 1793 he was a representative on mission surveying the ports of Lorient and Dunkirk, but he was arrested in Normandy upon the fall of the Girondists (June 1793) by the rebel authorities of Caen, and only released in July 1793 after the defeat of their forces at Vernon.

Cliffstar

Cliffstar Corporation is a Dunkirk, New York headquartered maker of juices, sports drinks, teas, and private-label beverages.

Coates, West Sussex

It was here in 1940-41 that Lieutenant- colonel Stewart Blacker invented the Spigot Mortar or Blacker Bombard a cheap and easily produced piece of anti-tank ordnance required after the British Army's heavy equipment at been lost at Dunkirk.

Eliza Ware Farrar

Eliza Ware Farrar (born 12 July 1791 in Dunkirk, France – 22 April 1870 in Springfield, Massachusetts) was a writer.

Flag and coat of arms of Leinster

It is recorded that his ship, the St Francis, as she lay at anchor at Dunkirk, flew from her mast top "the Irish harp in a green field, in a flag".

Geoffrey Kirkness

He played Vice Admiral Phillips in the drama series Dunkirk, for the BBC, 2004 and General Alanbrooke in Into the Storm 2009, with Brendan Gleeson, for HBO television.

Harry Landis

Indeed, Landis' other film roles have been pretty minor, as in Dunkirk (1958), Doctor in Distress (uncredited, 1963), The Informers (uncredited, 1963), Private Potter (1962), Operation Bullshine (1959) and Ransom (1975) with Sean Connery.

Incendiary ammunition

The B Mark VI incendiary bullets were first issued in June 1940 and tested operationally in the Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire in the air battles over Dunkirk.

James O'Moran

Arriving at his post in April, O'Moran toured the strongholds placed under him (Cassel, Bergues, Dunkirk and Bailleul) to put them into a state of readiness and defence.

James Oswald Noel Vickers

A few months later, in May 1940, Vickers was wounded and captured shortly before Dunkirk.

Jean de Reyn

The principal altar-piece in the parochial church of St. Martin, at Bergues St. Vinox, near Dunkirk, is by this master: it represents 'Herodias bringing the Head of St. John to Herod.'

Jenico Preston, 17th Viscount Gormanston

He succeeded to the title before his first birthday, when his father died in action at Dunkirk during the Battle of France, 1940.

John Crocker

Landed at Cherbourg as the rest of the BEF retreated to Dunkirk, 1st Armoured Division unsuccessfully attacked the German bridgeheads over the River Somme before returning to Cherbourg where the remnants (including the brigade's last 13 tanks) were evacuated.

John Frederick Brill

He fought in Europe and having survived Dunkirk, and got back to England, his regiment was posted to the Middle East.

John of Luxembourg, Count of Soissons

John of Luxembourg (died June 22, 1476) was Count of Marle and Count of Soissons between 1462 and 1476, Lord of Dunkirk, Gravelines and Bourbourg.

John Stuart, Count of Maida

He took part in the sieges and battles of the 1793 campaign, Valenciennes, Lincelles, Dunkirk and Lannoy.

Josef Priller

He made his first victory claims in May 1940 over Dunkirk versus Royal Air Force (RAF) fighters.

Karl Heinz Schnell

Indeed it was only on the day the unit transferred to airfields at Ghent, on 29 September, against the British evacuation at Dunkirk, that Schnell got his first victory - an RAF Spitfire.

Marcus Ervine-Andrews

During the night of 31 May/1 June 1940, near Dunkirk, France, the company commanded by Captain Ervine-Andrews was heavily outnumbered and under intense German fire.

Mary Anne Talbot

Later the French captured her and she spent the following 18 months in Dunkirk dungeon.

MS Calais Seaways

Following a lay-up in Dunkirk, she was acquired by Stena Line in 1998, renamed Stena Royal and initially used on freight services between Dover and Zeebrugge on charter to P&O Stena Line.

MS European Endeavour

The ship was built in 2000 for Merchant Ferries as Midnight Merchant for a planned service between Liverpool and Belfast, however the ship was chartered to Norfolkline for their new service between Dover and Dunkirk and remained on that route until July 2006 when she was replaced by one of three new ships for the service.

Peasant revolt in Flanders 1323–28

Zannekin won the neighboring towns of Roeselare, Poperinge, Nieuwpoort, Veurne, Dunkirk, Cassel, Bailleul for his cause as they opened their gates to him.

PS Duchess of Montrose

From 14 July 1915 she was stationed at Dover under the command of Lieutenant Alexander Duff Thomson Royal Naval Reserve and from April 1916 she was stationed at Dunkirk.

On the morning of Sunday 18 March 1917, Duchess of Montrose left Dunkirk harbour and at 9am began sweeping close to the Gravelines Buoy.

Richard Clutterbuck

After Dunkirk, he went through both the Western Desert and Italian campaigns.

RMS Lady of Mann

Requisitioned as a personnel ship at the outbreak of war, she had a good turn of speed, and was able to get in and out of the Dunkirk bombardments and lift 4,262 men back to the relative safety of Dover and Folkstone.

Robin Kinahan

During World War II he joined the Royal Artillery, the 8th (Belfast) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, serving briefly in France before the Dunkirk withdrawal, then in the air defence of Coventry and London before ending up in Burma under General Slim.

Royal Voluntary Service

When troops returned to ports after the evacuation at Dunkirk, members of the WVS were there to greet them and hand out food, drink and warm clothing.

Sharnbrook Upper School

Sean Longden, historian and author of To The Victor The Spoils, Hitler's British Slaves and Dunkirk, The Men They Left Behind.

Sherwood Foresters

On 29 May, 9th Foresters were sent to reinforce the garrison at the fortified town of Bergues, 9 km south of Dunkirk.

Sidney De Haan

In 1939 he was called up to the Royal Army Medical Corps and was captured at Dunkirk, he spent three years in a Stalag in Eastern Europe and was then released in order to escort sick prisoners of war who were being repatriated in 1943.

Small Heath, Birmingham

The fall of France had not been anticipated in Government planning and the encirclement of a large part of the British Expeditionary Force into the Dunkirk pocket resulted in a hasty evacuation of that part of the B.E.F following the abandonment of their equipment.

Sopwith Triplane

In July 1916, N500 was sent to Dunkirk for evaluation with "A" Naval Squadron, 1 Naval Wing.

Supermarine Spitfire variants: specifications, performance and armament

In most circumstances this proved to be sufficient but during the air battles over Dunkirk and during the Battle of Britain it was found that whenever the Merlin was subjected to negative "g" forces, such as a quick "bunt" into a dive, the engine would briefly lose power through petrol starvation.

Tom Starcevich

Tom Starcevich was the son of immigrants to Western Australia: Gertrude May Starcevich née Waters (born c. 1897, in Dunkirk, Kent, England) and Joseph Starcevich (born c. 1892, in Lič, Croatia-Slavonia, Austro-Hungarian Empire).

William L. Carpenter

William Lewis Carpenter, born January 13, 1844 at Dunkirk, Chautauqua County, New York, died July 10, 1898 at Madison Barracks, Jefferson County, New York.

William Lockhart of Lee

Shortly after the capture of Dunkirk, Lockhart intervened successfully for the protection of the Huguenots in Nîmes.


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