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    Tour de France for the first time on the 218.5 km (135.8 mi) stage 16 from Orthez to Gourette–Col d'Aubisque. In 2015, the climb, coming from the north was...
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    Ultras Green. Their biggest rival is another legendary French club Pau-Orthez, and they have been trading blows with one another for national supremacy...
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    Béarn were successively Beneharnum (until 841), Morlaàs (from c. 1100), Orthez (from the second half of the 13th century) and then Pau (beginning in the...
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    more definitively; he defeated the viscount of Dax, and took control of Orthez, Pays de Mixe, and Ostabaret by 1105 and gained Montaner through his marriage...
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    little loss effected the passage of the Pau below Orthez, attacked Soult. At the Battle of Orthez the Allies and French were of about equal strength...
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    Manufacturing (1828–29) and a peer of France. Pierre Laurent Barthélemy François Charles de Saint-Cricq was born in Orthez, Pyrénèes-Atlantiques, on 24 August 1772...
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  • at the battle of St. Pierre, near Bayonne, at the attack on the heights of Garres St.-Palais at Tarbes, and at the battles of Orthez and Toulouse. Soon...
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    Saint-Jean-de-Luz, noted flyer, received the Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur Pierre Etchebaster, born 1893 in Saint-Jean-de-Luz died 1980, seven times Real...
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  • Battle of Nive, where he was severely wounded at St Pierre. He was afterwards involved at the Battles of Orthez and Toulouse in 1814. He was knighted KCB in...
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    Leipzig in October 1813. After Soult's defeat by Wellington at the Battle of Orthez in late February 1814, the French Marshal retreated north behind the river...
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