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38 unusual facts about Meuse


Aquamanile

The aquamaniles made in the Mosan – or Meuse valley – region, using the brass alloy of silvery tint called dinanderie (from the center of its manufacture in the region of Dinant) were often fantastic and zoomorphic in their forms, which were constrained only by the need for a larger opening for filling the vessel and a spout for pouring.

Arboretum de la Pipe Qui Fume

The Arboretum de la Pipe Qui Fume (4 hectares) is an arboretum located in the Forêt Domaniale des Hazelles at Bogny-sur-Meuse, Ardennes, Champagne-Ardenne, France.

Barnwell R. Legge

Major Legge subsequently participated in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive and personally lead an attack against a strong enemy position.

Beatrice of Bourbon, Queen of Bohemia

Beatrice, now Dowager Queen of Bohemia, received in perpetuity lands in the County of Hainaut, the rent of 4,000 livres and the towns of Arlon, Marville and Damvillers (where she settled her residence) as her widow's estate.

Bryan Hayes

Hayes was born in Marville, France, where his father was stationed as a member of the Canadian Armed Forces.

Carden Loyd tankette

They were still in use when the Battle of Belgium started in May 1940, albeit from fixed, ambushed positions on the west-bank of the river Meuse (Maas) between Vivegnis and Lixhe.

E. Donald Sterner

He was salvage officer with the 2nd Infantry Division and was engaged in the Second Battle of the Marne, the Battle of Saint-Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.

Earl J. Atkisson

This regiment arrived in France on March 10, 1918 and eventually participated in the Aisne-Marne, St. Mihel, and Meuse-Argonne operations.

Edward F. Younger

Those remaining were interred in the Meuse Argonne Cemetery, France.

Fort de Liouville

The Fort de Liouville, also known as Fort Stengel, located between the communes of Saint-Agnant-sous-les-Côtes and Saint-Julien-sous-les-Côtes, near the town of Commercy in the Meuse departement of France, is one of the forts built at the end of the 19th century to defend the valley of the Meuse.

Herman Davis

On October 10, 1918, he achieved distinction by killing four German machine gunners, using a standard-issue 1903 Springfield with open sights, near Verdun during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.

Heusden

The bridge across the river Meuse makes Heusden, then still occupied by the Germans, a strategic object.

The settlement of Heusden, bordering on the river Meuse (Maas), as we know it today dates back to the 13th century, and started with the construction of a fortification to replace the castle that was destroyed by the Duke of Brabant in 1202.

Jean Bouin

Bouin was killed in action during World War I near Xivray, Meuse, 10 miles east of Saint-Mihiel.

Jean de Marville

From his name it appears that Jean de Marville originated in Marville in what is now the department of Meuse, in northern France.

Jean Nicolaï

Jean Nicolaï (b. in 1594 at Mouzay in the Diocese of Verdun, France; d. 7 May 1673, at Paris) was a French Dominican theologian and controversialist.

Jesse N. Funk

He earned the medal while serving as a stretcher bearer during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, when he and another soldier, Charles D. Barger, entered no man's land despite heavy fire and rescued two wounded officers.

John I, Lord of Egmond

In 1356, William V appointed him governor of the area above the Meuse, jointly with his brother Gerry.

Joost de Lalaing

1437 - near Utrecht, 5 August 1483), lord of Montigny and of Santes, was a noble from Hainaut who filled several important posts in service of the Burgundian Dukes.

L'Intrépide

These balloons were used by the Corps's first company attached to General Jourdan's Army of Sambre-et-Meuse in 1796.

Laurent B. Ruamps

On 21 August, he shot down a two-seater reconnaissance craft over Pagny-sur-Meuse.

Maarten van der Goes van Dirxland

After France's annexation of Holland in 1810, Van der Goes entered the First French Empire's Corps législatif as the representative of the department of Bouches-de-la-Meuse.

Matej Kocak

He was killed in action on October 4, 1918, and is buried in the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne, France.

October 4, 1918, found him taking part in the Allied drive against the enemy in the Argonne Forest between the Moselle and Forest of Argonne in the vicinity of Blanchmont in Champagne, France, and in the attack against the enemy in the St. Mihiel sector in the vicinity of Thiaucourt, France.

Maxey-sur-Meuse

The presence of all these water courses makes the village popular with anglers.

Meuse-Rhenish

They do mostly not think of the Ripuarian speaking area as Low Rhenish, which includes the South Bergish or Upper Bergish area east of the Rhine, south of the Wupper, north of the Sieg.

The combination of Meuse-Rhenish and Ripuarian, including their overlapping transitional zones of Southeast Limburgish and Low Dietsch, will do.

The former predominantly Dutch speaking duchies of Guelders and Limburg lay in the heart of this linguistic landscape, but eastward the former duchies of Cleves (entirely), Jülich, and Berg partially, also fit in.

Meuse/Haute Marne Underground Research Laboratory

The Meuse/Haute Marne Underground Research Laboratory is a laboratory located 500 metres underground in Bure in the Meuse département.

Montsec

Montsec, Meuse, a commune of the Meuse département, in France

Oscar F. Miller

Miller, aged 35 at his death, was buried in the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery outside of Romagne-sous-Montfaucon in France.

RAF battle honours

For squadrons participating in bombing operations against crossings of the Meuse during the German breakthrough between Sedan and Dinant, 12–14 May 1940.

RCAF Station Marville

RCAF Station Marville (also known as 1(F) Wing or 1 Wing) was a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) station located near Marville in the Meuse department, Lorraine, northeastern France.

Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta

At the Waal, for example, the most landward tidal influence can be detected between Brakel and Zaltbommel.

Robert C. Richardson, Jr.

By now a temporary Lt Colonel, Richardson was Liaison Officer with Headquarters, 1st Army for the opening of Meuse-Argonne Offensive and the Operations Officer Representative at Advance G.H.Q. With the end of hostilities, now a temporary colonel, Richardson joined the Reparations Board, Peace Commission, Paris from January 28 to February 28, 1919.

Robert Lee Howze

During World War I he was promoted to Major General and placed in command of the 38th Infantry Division, which fought in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in October 1918.

Rudolf Sieckenius

Cotes de Meuse (September 1914 – September 1916, February – April 1917)

Rudolph W. Riefkohl

When the United States declared war on Germany in World War l, he was assigned to the 63rd Heavy Artillery Regiment in France and actively participated in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.


1960–61 Winter General Strike

Also the Dardenne brothers, with for instance Lorsque le bateau de Léon M. descendit la Meuse pour la première fois (1979), Thierry Michel with Hiver 60 Chronique des saisons d'acier etc.

Berwinne

From there the Berwinne river flows, generally spoken, in northwestern direction, through places like Val-Dieu Abbey, Dalhem and Moelingen, before joining the Meuse between Visé and the Dutch border.

Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Having secured Longwy and Verdun without serious resistance, he turned back after a mere skirmish in Valmy, and evacuated France.

Claude-Étienne Michel

Exchanged on 3 Messidor year III, he rejoined his regiment, and reported at the vanguard of the army of Sambre and Meuse.

Clerics Regular of Our Savior

The congregation was founded in 1851, at the former Norbertine Abbey of Benoite-Vaux in the Department of Meuse.

CroisiEurope

In France, CroisiEurope sail on the Seine, the Rhône, the Saône, the Gironde, the Meuse, and the Rhine; in Italy, on the Po; in Spain, on the Guadalquivir; in Portugal, on the Guadiana and the Douro; in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands, on the Rhine; in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Serbia, and Romania, on the Danube; and in Germany, on the Havel and the Oder.

Deltar

The computer was designed and built in order to make the complicated calculations required to predict the effects of dams, dikes, and storm surge barriers on the tides in the estuaries of the rivers Rhine, Meuse and Scheldt.

Earle Davis Gregory

He enlisted at Chase City, Virginia in the U.S. Army during World War I. Earle Gregory received the Medal of Honor for actions as a U.S. Army sergeant during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in World War I. He is considered to be the first Virginian to receive the medal and often called the Sergeant York of Virginia.

Emmanuel Halgan

The French-held fortresses were later ordered abandoned due to the advances of the Allies, and the Meuse flotilla was scuttled in Willemstad.

Etain

Étain, France, a commune in the Meuse département in France

François René Mallarmé

The most heinous example is when he ordered the execution of the sentence of death decreed by the Revolutionary Tribunal on some young girls at Verdun who had offered flowers to the Prussia soldiers when they entered the town.

François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers

He took part in the 1795-1796 campaign with the armies of the Sambre and Meuse, fighting on the Rhine and the Lahn and distinguishing himself alongside Kléber near Neuwied and Sulzbach.

Freddie Stowers

He is buried, along with 133 of his comrades, at the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial east of the village of Romagne-sous-Montfaucon.

Karl von Einem

After suffering severe casualties in battle with Gen. John J. Pershing's Allied Expeditionary Force from September 26-November 11 in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, he was forced to retreat northward shortly before the war's end.

L'Étanche Abbey, Lorraine

L'Étanche Abbey, Lorraine, is a former Premonstratensian monastery founded in the 12th century, the ruins of which are near the modern village of Deuxnouds-aux-Bois, in the commune of Lamorville, Meuse, France.

La Lorraine

The La Lorraine was a French automobile manufactured in Bar-le-Duc, Meuse by Charles Schmid from 1899 until 1902.

Louis A. Merrilat

He participated in the Battle of Château-Thierry, Second Battle of the Marne, and Meuse-Argonne Offensive.

Merwin H. Silverthorn

Subsequently participated in the Battle of Château-Thierry, Aisne-Marne Offensive and Meuse-Argonne Offensive.

Meuse–Rhine Euroregion

It comprises 11.000 km² and has around 3.9 million inhabitants around the city-corridor of AachenMaastrichtHasseltLiège.

Petitcollin

In the early 1800s, Nicolas Petitcollin, the company's founder, manufactured horn combs in Étain, Meuse, France.

Rembercourt

Rembercourt-Sommaisne, a commune in the Meuse department of Lorraine, France

Saint Mihiel Abbey

Saint Mihiel Abbey is an ancient Benedictine abbey situated in the town of Saint-Mihiel, near Verdun in the Meuse department in Lorraine in north-eastern France.

Schnorbach

This noble house appeared with Count Bruno in 1081, then holding a county in what is now the Netherlands on the Meuse’s left bank between Roermond and Venlo.

Sébastien Briat

Sébastien Briat was an anti-nuclear activist from Meuse, France who gained international media attention in 2004 when he was struck and killed by a train carrying nuclear waste near Avricourt, France, after chaining himself to the tracks while participating in a protest against nuclear power.