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4 unusual facts about Santerre


Alan Seeger

He was killed in action at Belloy-en-Santerre on July 4, 1916, famously cheering on his fellow soldiers in a successful charge after being hit several times by machine gun fire.

Anna de Diesbach

Anne Marie Lucie Hedwige de Diesbach-Belleroche (b. September 15, 1844 in Fribourg Switzerland - d. November 10, 1929 in Beaufort-en-Santerre, France) was a French rosarian.

No. 464 Squadron RAAF

No. 464 Squadron moved from England to France in February 1945 and, based out of Rosières-en-Santerre, continued day and night bombing missions.

Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt

The letter is addressed to an otherwise unknown Picard countryman named Sygerus (Sigerus, Ysaerus) of Foucaucourt, possibly a friend and neighbor of the author; Foucaucourt borders on the home area of Peregrinus around Maricourt, in the present-day department of the Somme, near Péronne.


Andy Santerre

Santerre made a Busch Series start in 1996 while earning points a Busch North driver, when he drove the #35 Ford for Mike Laughlin Jr. at Daytona.

The next time out, running the #1 Primetime Van Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, Santerre set his best qualifying effort to that point of 8th in the field at Watkins Glen International.

Day of Daggers

On the Day of Daggers, Lafayette was away attempting to quell a disturbance caused by Santerre, a Jacobin and commander of the National Guard in St.Antoine, in which Santerre and a mob of about twelve hundred marched toward Vincennes, where they began to destroy part of the parapet and the dungeons that were holding prisoners from the recently fallen Bastille, with the supposed intention of massacring the prisoners.

Le Quesnel

Church of Saint Leger, known as the Cathedral of the Santerre" as it’s the biggest church in the region, with a 50m high tower.

Picquigny

After the defeat of the Huns at Lihons-en-Santerre, the inhabitants of Amiens, who had helped the barbarians, took refuge in the castle of Picquigny, to hide from the vengeance of Dagobert, where they were then besieged by him.


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