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The American monument marking the country's entry into World War 1 as it was proposed in 1921
The Pointe de Grave (in occitan : Punta de Grava) is the northernmost tip of the Médoc Peninsula and marks the Northern end of the pine-clad sandy Landes coastline of Western France. It lies in the commune of Le Verdon-sur-Mer and across the Gironde Estuary from the resort town of Royan.
The offshore Cordouan lighthouse lies off the point and a second lighthouse, on the shore, houses a lighthouse museum.
The PointedeGrave (in occitan : Punta de Grava) is the northernmost tip of the Médoc Peninsula and marks the Northern end of the pine-clad sandy Landes...
island of Oléron north of the Gironde, and a stretch from PointedeGrave to Saint-Vivien-de-Médoc and Vensac to its south. The Royan pocket was fully...
of colonel Raymond Chomel. South, pockets of La Rochelle, Royan and PointedeGrave, 12,000 men under command of colonel Henri Adeline. These French troops...
forces and played a critical role in the PointedeGrave battle with their Gernika Battalion (Gironde). De Gaulle commented, "France will never forget...
Cracovie. The other branch starts at Gare de Blanquefort and runs alongside the SNCF line to Pointe-de-Grave [fr] as far as Ausone, from where it follows...
Wallace and Ewart in Coalfish had been captured at daybreak near the PointedeGrave lighthouse where they had come ashore. By the end of the second night...
Les poches de l'Atlantique: Les batailles oubliées de la Libération Janvier 1944 - mai 1945, Tallandier, ISBN 979-10-210-0492-4 Sortir de la Seconde Guerre...
Within the estuary between the PointedeGrave at the seaward end and the Bec d'Ambès are a series of small islands. The Île de Patiras is 200 ha in size with...
the station of La Pointe-de-Grave at Le Verdon-sur-Mer connects through the Médoc region to Bordeaux-Saint-Jean station. The Tramways de Royan provided mainly...
participated in particular in the fighting at PointedeGrave in April 1945. On April 22, 1945, General de Gaulle awarded the Somali battalion a citation...
accuracy in the Eighth Air Force. They destroyed a German battery at PointedeGrave, on the west coast of France and scored a 100 per cent strike. The...
September 4 – During the ceremony marking the unveiling of a plaque at PointedeGrave, France celebrating Franco-American friendship, U.S. Ambassador William...
1945, to participate to the clearing of Royan Pocket and PointedeGrave (French: poche de Royan). The latter went back east on April 23, 1945, to garrison...
September – During the ceremony marking the unveiling of a plaque at PointedeGrave celebrating Franco-American friendship, American ambassador William...
from Paris. The most important trunk roads begin on the parvis of Notre Dame de Paris at a point known as point zéro (kilometre zero). In order to cover the...
Lazaretto, and Chiberta. The sandy coast starts 200 km north at the PointedeGrave on the shore of the estuary of the Gironde and ends in Anglet. It is...
237 m Aiguille de l'Épaisseur, 3,230 m Pointe Salvador, 3,202 m Pic des Trois Évêchés, 3,116 m Pointe des Lauzettes, 3,053 m Pointede Pierre Fendue,...
Baptiste Point du Sable (also spelled Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable, or Pointe du Sable; before 1750 – August 28, 1818) is...
Musée d'Orsay. Whilst working as a sculptor he also taught at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Montparnasse, his pupils including Alberto Giacometti...
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