Flirey (French pronunciation: [fliʁɛ]) is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France. Following advances made by American forces...
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The Battle of Flirey (French: 1re Bataille de Flirey) took place in the First World War and was fought from 19 September to 11 October 1914. The German...
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failed, despite violent fighting. During two more attempts (Battle of Flirey), German troops took Saint-Mihiel and Fort du Camp-des-Romains, but they...
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village were taken captive. Suippes Regniéville Remenauville Fey-en-Haye Flirey Moussy-sur-Aisne Vauclerc-et-la-Vallée-Foulon Ailles Beaulne-et-Chivy Courtecon...
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(September 10, 1918 – August 10, 1932) was a male German Shepherd born in Flirey, France, who became an international star in motion pictures. He was rescued...
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Jules Haag (9 August 1882, Flirey – 16 February 1953, Besançon) was a French mathematician and horologist. Haag matriculated at l'École Normale Supérieure...
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List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in the area of the St Mihiel salient (section Franco-American Monument at Flirey)
would need to move their focus to the Meuse-Argonne. In the village of Flirey is this monument celebrating the joint Franco-American action which took...
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passenger. The flight took him across the front between Saint-Mihiel and Flirey and then to the northern outskirts of Toul, approximately 15 kilometers...
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attacked from Verdun westwards to Reims and the Aisne at the Battle of Flirey (19 September – 11 October), cut the main railway from Verdun to Paris and...
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railway line from the south into Verdun had been cut during the Battle of Flirey in 1914, with the loss of Saint-Mihiel; the line west from Verdun to Paris...
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