The Lachine Canal (French: Canal de Lachine) is a canal passing through the southwestern part of the Island of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, running 14.5...
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The Vickers Wellington is a British twin-engined, long-range medium bomber. It was designed during the mid-1930s at Brooklands in Weybridge, Surrey. Led...
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The Rideau Canal is a 202 kilometre long canal that links the Ottawa River at Ottawa with the Cataraqui River and Lake Ontario at Kingston, Ontario, Canada...
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Henry Tandey (category Duke of Wellington's Regiment soldiers)
episode: On 28th September 1918 during the taking of the crossing over the Canal de St. Quentin at Marcoing, I was No.1 of the Lewis gun team of my platoon...
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west of the canal, except for the lands north of Wellington, which were considered "Ordnance" lands. The area east of Bank Street to the canal was acquired...
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Lion's Mound (redirect from Butte de leon)
southern bank of Duke of Wellington's sunken lane. Victor Hugo, in his novel Les Misérables, wrote that the Duke of Wellington visited the site two years...
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distinct neighbourhoods named "Upper Town" west of the canal and "Lower Town" east of the canal. Similar to its Upper Canada and Lower Canada namesakes...
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church, along rue Wellington and rue de l'Église, became the nucleus of commercial development. A new city hall was built on Rue de Verdun in 1958. The...
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The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, forming part of the King's Division. In 1702, Colonel...
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The Raid on the Suez Canal, also known as Actions on the Suez Canal, took place between 26 January and 4 February 1915 when a German-led Ottoman Army force...
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