In addition, the Canadians were to protect the left (southern) flank of the 9th Battalion, Parachute Regiment during that unit's attack on the Merville Battery, afterwards seizing a position astride the Le Mesnil crossroads, a vital position at the centre of the ridge.
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2005 : Creation of the Channel Arc Manche Assembly : Alain Le Vern, President of the Haute-Normandie Region, is elected chairman and Brad Watson becomes vice-chairman.
He was a native of Bricquebec, in the département of Manche and is often associated with his brother, the writer Charles Frémine, born in 1841.
Formed by splitting the Army of the Coasts in April 1793, it was put under the command of Georges Félix de Wimpffen and charged with defending the coasts of Manche against British invasion, and fighting against the federalist revolt in Normandy and Caen.
Beurre d'Isigny is a type of cow's milk butter made in the Veys Bay area and the valleys of the rivers running into it, comprising several French communes surrounding Isigny-sur-Mer and straddling the Manche and Calvados departments of northern France.
The Château de Cerisy-la-Salle, located in the French commune of Cerisy-la-Salle (in the Manche département, region of Basse-Normandie), hosts the Centre culturel international de Cerisy-la-Salle (CCIC), a prestigious venue for intellectual and scholarly encounters founded in 1952 by Anne Heurgon-Desjardins.
In 1811 he moved to Valognes (Manche), pursuing botanical field research and the nascent field of geology, and searching out ancient written materials that cast light on local history, while he undertook, from 1814 onwards, to compile a pioneering inventory of some four or five hundred churches of La Manche (Noell 2005); some of these materials were published as Voyage archéologique dans la Manche (1818–1820).
Only four villages are located on the actual Côtes des Blancs slope, namely Avize, Cramant, Le Mesnil-sur-Oger and Oger but all municipalities between Cuis and Bergères-les-Vertus have their vineyards on the côtes.
Through a joint ownership between his breeder, the Aga Khan IV, and Darley Stud, he stood as a sire at the Aga Khan's Gilltown Stud near Kilcullen, County Kildare, Ireland until 2006 when he was sent to his Haras de Bonneval stud at Le Mesnil-Mauger in France.
Le Mesnil-Durdent, a commune in the Seine-Maritime département, France
From 1929, the class was responsible for pulling the expresses between Dieppe and Le Mans and the Manche-Océan, between Dieppe and Bordeaux.
In 1792, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly for Manche, and voted in favor of King Louis XVI's execution, against a suspended sentence (but in favor of possibility of appeal to the people's mercy).
During the summer a high-speed passenger ferry is operated from there to Alderney and Guernsey by Manche Iles Express.
Saint-Pierre-de-Semilly (Manche, arr. St. Lô, canton St.-Clair) in western Normandy.
The Granville in the Manche war memorial features a representation of a soldier worked in bronze by Vérez.
The Golf de Granville Baie du Mont St Michel is a 27 hole golf course located at Bréville-sur-Mer (Manche), approximately 4 miles north of Granville, Normandy, France.
Graignes, Manche, a former commune in the Manche department in northwestern France that was merged in 2007 with the commune of Le Mesnil-Angot to form Graignes-Mesnil-Angot
He was awarded the Knight's Cross for his bravery and leadership in Normandy, in the Caen sector at Le Mesnil-Patry and Cheux, when on 27 June his company destroyed 37 Allied tanks, 11 of which Siegel destroyed himself.
The JPM 01 Médoc is a French amateur-built aircraft that was designed by Jean-Pierre Marie in 1977 and produced by Les Avions Jean-Pierre Marie (JPM) of Le Mesnil-Esnard.
The JPM 03 Loiret is a French amateur-built aircraft that was designed by Jean-Pierre Marie and produced by Les Avions Jean-Pierre Marie (JPM) of Le Mesnil-Esnard.
La Manche was a coastal community in the southeast portion (the Avalon Peninsula) of the island of Newfoundland between Cape Broyle and Burnt Cove.
Serge Gainsbourg, until then Lucien Ginsburg, married Élisabeth Levitsky at Mesnil-le-Roi Town Hall on 3 November 1951.
A fourteenth-century fortified manorhouse called the Château de la Reine Blanche (allegedly owned by Asif Ali Zardari, President of Pakistan).
Retired to stud duty, he met with modest success as a sire while standing at Prince Aly Khan's Haras de Saint-Crespin near Le Mesnil-Mauger in Lower Normandy.
Major-General Pierre Bonnemains, Baron of Bonnemains (13 September 1773 in Tréauville – 9 November 1850 in Mesnil-Garnier, was a French officer during the Napoleonic Wars and a member of the French Parliament.
Robert Fitzhamon (died March 1107), or Robert FitzHamon, Sieur de Creully in the Calvados region and Torigny in the Manche region of Normandy, was Lord of Gloucester and the Norman conqueror of Glamorgan, southern Wales.
Savigny Abbey (Abbaye de Savigny) was a monastery near the village of Savigny-le-Vieux (Manche), in northern France.
Tessy-sur-Vire, commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France