Warnant-Dreye (or just Warnant) is a village in the municipality of Villers-le-Bouillet in the Province of Liège, Belgium.
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The first tank against tank combat in history took place on 24 April 1918 when three A7Vs (including chassis number 561, known as "Nixe") taking part in an attack with infantry incidentally met three Mark IVs (two female machine gun-armed tanks and one male with two 6-pounder guns) near Villers-Bretonneux.
Anne Louise Brillon de Jouy (née Boyvin d'Hardancourt, 13 December 1744 Paris – 5 December 1824 Villers-sur-Mer, Calvados) was a French musician and composer.
After Epidemic, Bouillet produced theme music for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) wrestler, Triple H.
In 2008, the Australian Department of Veterans Affairs wants to upgrade seven sites showing the Australian forces during the First World War (Ypres and Passchendaele in Belgium; Fromelles, Bullecourt, Mont-Saint-Quentin, Pozières and Villers-Bretonneux).
In 1811, Villers was appointed Professor of Philosophy at the Georg-August University of Göttingen.
On 24/25 April 1918 at Villers-Bretonneux, France, Lieutenant Sadlier's platoon had to advance through a wood where a strong enemy machine-gun post was causing casualties and preventing the advance.
Tiger Ace — Set in Villers-Bocage, the episode is a backstory of Kampfgruppe Lehr commander Major-General Maximillian Voss and Hauptmann Josef Schultz who is the main antagonist in the original.
On June 13, they advanced with a battalion of the 1st Rifle Brigade by road from Villers-Bocage and were ambushed by a detachment of Tiger tanks.
He received a promotion to major in January 1917 and the following year was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for his work at Villers-Bretonneux.
Their appearance is comparable to the French Chateau of Villers-Cotterêts.
The capture of Villers-Bretonneux, being close to the strategic centre of Amiens, would have meant that the Germans could have used artillery there to shell the city.
Frasnes-lez-Gosselies, a village in Les Bons Villers, a Walloon municipality in the Belgian province of Hainaut
The station is located at kilometre point 100.155 on the partly abandoned single-track metre-gauge line between Saint-Just-en-Chaussée and Douai and at kilometre point 115.358 on the also partly abandoned line between Ormoy-Villers and Boves.
Grand Prix de Villers-Cotterêts is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in the commune of Villers-Cotterêts, France.
He was at his Regimental Aid Post when he heard that a gas shell had burst on the Battalion H.Q. at Villers-Bretonneux, had pierced the roof, and penetrated into the cellar.
By December 1917, Lavarack was a Lieutenant Colonel and General Staff Officer, 1st grade in the Australian 4th Division, and took part in battles at Dernancourt, Villers-Bretonneux, Hamel and Amiens, with Lavarack's hand in planning for the Battle of Hamel setting the stage for several subsequent Australian victories.
It was during this final assault on Parcy that van Vollenhoven was fatally wounded leading his men into the attack at Montgobert, in the Longpont Forest (Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne).
After downing at least 19 aircraft (with probables and force-downs, as high as 22) in air combat, Wintgens was killed in action near Villers-Carbonnel, probably by French ace Alfred Heurteaux, for Heurteaux's eighth aerial victory.
Once her leg healed, she returned to France (dropped by Lysander near Villers-les-Ormes on the night of 9/10 April 1944) to work for the PIMENTO network, headed by Anthony Brooks, under the new codename Marguerite.
There are no shops, nor any commercial outlets in the hamlet, the nearest shops, food, bars or hotels are located either in Villers-Bocage or Aunay-sur-Odon.
"Histoire Vache" - In Villers-Bocage in Normandy, Eric loses his virginity to Marguerite who works at the abattoir.
He is a double recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor as he received the medal from the army and from the navy for the same action while serving with 66th Company of the Marines 5th Regiment in 1918 near Villers-Cotterêts, France.
Captain Molson is interred in the Villers Station Cemetery in Villers-au-Bois in Pas-de-Calais.
No bodies were found aboard, but the bodies of two men were seen floating in the river and were fished out near Villers-sur-Mer the same day.
Body panels were constructed of resin transfer moulding (RTM) plastic by Stratime Cappelo Systems of Villers-Cotterêts, France; this same company had provided bodywork using the RTM technology for the Alfa Romeo SZ and the Lotus Elan M100.
In July 2011, he will be directing the stage world premiere of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose in the ruins of the Cistercian Abbey of Villers-la-Ville, Belgium.
Villers-Vaudey, commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Franche-Comté in eastern France
Viktring Abbey was established in 1142 by Cistercian monks from Villers-Bettnach Abbey in the Duchy of Lorraine (in the modern Saint-Hubert), of the filiation of Morimond.
Villers-Bocage, Calvados, in the Calvados département, and the site of the Battle of Villers-Bocage
The confectionery company Ferrero has a factory here, employing 800 people to produce Nutella and Kinder Bueno.
After the conflict, reconstruction began, which lasted almost a decade, led by a rebuilding cooperative led by Louis Faille.