The Belfort Gap (French: Trouée de Belfort) or Burgundian Gate (German: Burgunder Pforte) is the area of relatively flat terrain in Eastern France between...
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route between the Rhine and the Rhône – the Belfort Gap (Trouée de Belfort) or Burgundian Gate (Porte de Bourgogne). It is located approximately 16 km...
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The Battle of the Trouée de Charmes (French: Bataille de la trouée de Charmes) or Battle of the Mortagne was fought at the beginning of the First World...
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Alsace is the Trouée de Belfort (Belfort Gap), linking the département of Haut-Rhin (Grand Est) to the département Territoire-de-Belfort, région Bourgogne-Franche-Comté...
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designated Combat Command of the 5th Armored Division in operations of Trouée de Belfort. The 3rd combat company of the I / RMLE was decimated at Montreux-Château...
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increasing power and range of artillery. The Fort de Bourlémont was part of the defenses of the Charmes Gap (Trouée de Charmes), in the town of Mont-lès-Neufchâteau...
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Battle of the Frontiers (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
24 August, both armies began a counter-offensive at the Battle of the Trouée de Charmes and regained the line of 14 August, by early September. Joffre...
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tributary of the Moselle between Belfort and Épinal, near parallel to the 1871–1919 French-German border. The Trouée de Charmes (Charmes Gap), 70 km (43 mi)...
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a practicable line from Givet, to Namur, across the Gembloux Gap (la trouée de Gembloux), Wavre, Louvain and along the Dyle river to Antwerp, later termed...
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August 1914 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
abandoned. The battle began the start of the Great Retreat. Battle of the Trouée de Charmes – The French Second Army prevented the German advance past Charmes...
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