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	Battle of the Scheldt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of the Scheldt was a military operation which took place in northern Belgium and south-western Netherlands during the Second World War.
		The purpose of this battle was to clear the Scheldt estuary of Germans so that Allied shipping could transport supplies into the port city of Antwerp, which had been liberated during Operation Market Garden.
		Though this battle is not very well known, it was essential to allow the western allies to supply their armies in Europe and to continue operations on the western front until the end or the war in Europe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_the_Scheldt (2774 words)

	Arms of French Cities: alphabetical
		La Ferté-Bernard (Sarthe): Gules a lion passant or and a chief azure.
		La Ferté-sous-Jouarre (Seine-et-Marne): Azure on a semy of fleurs-de-lys a lion passant or.
		La Flèche (Sarthe): quarterly, 1 and 4 vert a bend or, 2 and 3 or on a pale gules an arrow argent between two towers of the second; on a chief France modern, supported (soutenu) by a divise argent.
	www.heraldica.org /topics/france/frcitalp.htm (12537 words)

	India Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		It was subordinated to the XI Corps of the British Army, under the command of General Haking.
		Portuguese soldiers had to serve in the battle front for long periods and, as a consequence, they were amongst the most exhausted men in the front.
		April, 9 The Battle of La Lys, as it became known in Portugal, or Operation Georgette, or Battle of Estaires to the British, started with a heavy artillery barrage from the Germans, followed by a German offensive with intensive use of lethal gas.
	www.indiaencyclopedia.com /index.php?title=Portugal_in_the_Great_War (1146 words)

	The campaign on the Western Front
		After the battles of 1914 both sides held an entrenched line that stretched from Nieuport on the Belgian coast, through the flat lands of industrial Artois, continuing through the wide expanses of the Somme and Champagne, into the high Vosges and on to the Swiss border.
		Lying at Mons, in the coalfield of southern Belgium, on the path of the northernmost of the advancing Germans were the units of the British Expeditionary Force.
		The early battles were of a very small in scale compared to the immense affairs of later in the war.
	www.1914-1918.net /wf.htm (1495 words)

	French Cemeteries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		In the Battle of Béthune German forces advanced to within three miles of the town on 18th April 1918, and on 21st May it was heavily bombarded.
		Nearby is the Bourlon Battlefield Memorial erected by the Canadian Government in honour of the forcing of the Canal du Nord by the Canadian Corps on 27th September 1918 and the subsequent advance to Mons, Belgium, and ultimately to the River Rhine in Germany.
		On 18th and 21st September 1916, in the middle of the Battle of the Somme, the 47th (London) Division buried 47 of their dead in a large shell crater opposite the wood.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /courage/frenchcemeteries.html (3475 words)

	the duke of wellington s regiment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The battalions of the regiment also fought in the Battle of the Marne, the Battle of the Aisne, the Battle of La Bassée and the brutal first Battle of Ypres.
		The Battle of Cambrai saw the first large use of tanks, though within the week, the Germans had regained nearly all territory that they had earlier lost.
		The Dukes fought with distinction at the Battle of Monte Ceco in October 1944.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /the_duke_of_wellington_s_regiment.html (2218 words)

	La Paiva (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The history of la Païva (as she would henceforth be called) fascinated Horac:e de Viel-Castel, the historian and man of letters; he duly recorded it in his memoirs of the Second Empire.
		La Païva did not seem to pay any attention whatever to the prince, but one fIne day it was not she who followed the predestined mortal, but the predestined mortal who pursued her.
		La Païva would often arrive, on her way back from the Bois, and inspect the building; once, it is said, she found a carpenter who had been happily settled in some obscure small room for five years.
	www.haverford.edu /fren/dkight/Fr103Fall04/WeekFive/Paiva.html (2950 words)

	First World War.com - Memoirs & Diaries - La Vacquerie
		A dead pannier mule lies athwart our track; a few yards beyond a man is sprawled in the gutter, his head, a dark ball, lies two or three feet away.
		A few yards away, under the dripping trees, lies a heap of opened parcels, and a sergeant is apportioning the litter of home-made cakes, cigarettes, and sweets that have no owners.
		Battle of the Lys, April 12th, 1918, invalided from infantry June 1918.
	www.firstworldwar.com /diaries/lavacquerie.htm (2688 words)

	Estienne De La Boetie: Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (1548)
		La Boétie's efforts might have borne fruit, but at one of his trips to Agen while some form of dysentery was raging in that region, he caught the germ, as his great friend Montaigne believes.
		La Boétie was very far from imagining when he composed his classical discourse that it would transform its author ten years after his death into a champion of Huguenot resistance.
		La Boétie paints in lurid and clownish colors the complexion of tyranny, explains its unstable and contemptible basis, and then shows serenely the way to its overthrow by patience, passive resistance, and faith in God.
	www.constitution.org /la_boetie/serv_vol.htm (14351 words)

	Battle of Arras - Vimy Ridge - World War I
		Memorial at "La Folie" Farm to men of the Canadian 3rd Division who fell at Vimy Ridge.
		Eventually, the British airmen won the air battle by concentrating their superior numbers and by bombing the German airfields immediately behind the front.
		One feature was having fresh divisions pass through assault divisions and continue the attack when the latter began to lose their combat effectiveness.
	www.warchronicle.com /wwi/battles/vimy.htm (1166 words)

	Triste Magazine - Lys Guillorn
		Lys Guillorn is a Connecticut-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who produces moody, melancholic, literate rock music, generously cross-fertilised by alt-country, folk, psychedelia and blues influences.
		LYS GUILLORN: This is seriously the hardest question to answer, and it's so early in the interview.
		LYS GUILLORN: I had to work up the confidence to perform because I used to be a pretty shy person.
	www.triste.co.uk /lysguillorn.htm (3728 words)

	The Accrington Pals \| Battle of the Lys (Hazebrouck), 11th-13th April 1918 \| Page 1 of 3
		Battle of the Lys (Hazebrouck), 11th-13th April 1918
		As German troops south of Armentieres continued to push north and west, British divisions still weakened from the Somme offensive were sucked into the battle.
		To the left of 92nd Brigade, the 93rd Brigade line was held by the 13th York and Lancasters (1st Barnsley Pals) and 18th Durham Light Infantry (Durham Pals) with the 15th West Yorkshires (Leeds Pals) in reserve.
	www.pals.org.uk /lys.htm (671 words)

	16-royalwarks
		The Battle of Guillemont (fourth phase of the Battle of the Somme)
		The Battle of Flers-Courcelette (sixth phase of the Battle of the Somme 1916)
		The Battle of Morval (seventh phase of the Battle of the Somme 1916)
	www.neil-smith.org.uk /reg-history/16-royalwarks.htm (359 words)

	Who's Who & What's What in The Warhammer World
		The village of Helmgart lies on this road in an upland valley of the Grey Mountains.
		His brewery was the scene of a famous battle, the Battle of Bugman's Brewery at which the Master Brewer was thought killed, but he turned up years later, unanounced, at the gates of Karak-Varn.
		It lies on the lower reaches of the River Reik on the edge of the Drak Wald Forest.
	user.cs.tu-berlin.de /~rossi/Wfrp/encyc/encyc.html (17297 words)

	hbailey
		IN the forcing of the Lys the 36th Division was to have the honour of the "left of the line," a real honour, because in an attack only a good Division was employed on the flank of an Allied Army.
		That evening the relief of the 3rd Belgian Division, along the left of the Lys, from Bavichove to the point of junction between the river and the Canal de Roulers a la Lys, was carried out by the 109th Brigade.
		By the morning of the 22nd the Lys was crossed by bridge after bridge in the area of the 36th Division; there being, besides numerous foot-bridges, three medium bridges for first-line transport, and a trestle which was subsequently used by French motor-lorries.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~westat58/articles/hbailey.htm (7808 words)

	from ‘
		She had remained faithful to her duty in spite of the bombardment, the battle at their very door and the ill-treatment of the Bavarian soldiers who were billeted in the farm.
		A score of soldiers were lying in convulsed attitudes, their eyes wide open, with grimacing mouths twisted into a terrifying smile, and with hands clasping their rifles.
		Damp and chilly night, which I got through lying on the pavement before the bridge; drank a half-litre of spirits in little sips to sustain me. This is the most trying night we have passed, but the spirits of all are wonderful.
	www.greatwardifferent.com /Great_War/French_Dragoon/French_Dragoon_01.htm (4720 words)

	Military history of Portugal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, British troops under Arthur Wellesley made their way to the Iberian peninsula, where, aided by Portuguese troops and the Spanish military, they forced Napoleon himself to deploy troops to the Peninsula.
		The British were mostly trounced, but managed to extricate themselves from the Peninsula in the Battle of La Coruña.
		German offensives in the British sector hit the Portuguese hard, with one division ruined in the Battle of La Lys, as it became known in Portugal, or Operation Georgette or the Battle of Estaires to the British.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Portuguese_military_history (495 words)

	Battle Honours
		The Battle Honours carried today come from all the previous component parts of our Regimental family, The numbered Regiments, The named Regiments that followed, The Territorial Army, Service Battalions of Kitcheners War raised Battalions, and War raised units, disbanded on completion of hostilities.
		Battle Honours of the British and Commonwealth Armies by Anthony BAKER
		Battle honours of the British Army, by C.B. Cap of Honour by David Scott DANIELL
	history.farmersboys.com /Battle_Honours/battle_honours.htm (1141 words)

	The Accrington Pals \| La Becque, 28th June 1918
		After the bitter fighting of the Battle of the Lys had ended with the failure of the German Army to break through to Hazebrouck, the front lines in the Vieux Berquin sector were re-established in front of Aval Wood, on the eastern fringe of the Nieppe Forest.
		In one of many contrasts to the opening day of the Battle of the Somme two years previously, the enemy were not to be forewarned of the attack by a preliminary artillery bombardment.
		After the retreats of March and April, La Becque was one of the first operations in which the Allies returned to the offensive.
	www.pals.org.uk /aval.htm (1690 words)

	History
		It was settled on the borders of the Lys river and was situated on the crossroads of Tongeren-Kassel and Tournai-Oudenburg.
		The Battle of the Spurs in1302, was the most famous battle in the Flemish medieval history.
		A new political structure provided the basis for the district of Kortrijk within the Department de la Lys, the current Province of West Flanders.
	kortrijk.atspace.com /id216.htm (607 words)

	France at War - Portugal in the Great War
		[16] In the coming battle, the 20.000 men and 88 guns of the CEP, would face the brunt of the assault of the German LV and XIX Corps, with a total of almost 100.000 men supported by most of the 1700 artillery pieces assigned to the Sixth Army.
		The stage was being set for what is known in Portugal as "The Battle of La Lys" - 9 April 1918 - the first day of Ludendorff's Lys Offensive, otherwise known as "Operation Georgette", and as "Battle of Estaires" to the British official history.
		The main sources for the preceding paragraphs on the battle of La Lys on 9 April 1918 were Castro Henriques/Rosas Leitão, pgs.
	www.worldwar1.com /france/portugal.htm (3075 words)

	Ivry-la-Bataille (Municipality, Eure, France)
		Here the qualifying term la Bataille refers to the battle that took place near Ivry on 14 March 1590, which was the last fighting between King Henri IV and his challengers from the ultra-Catholic Holy League.
		The battle turned into a terrible mess and it was believed for a while that Henri had been killed: his standard-bearer was injured and could harldy stand, while an officer wearing the same kind of panache as the King was killed by a lancer.
		After the battle, Henri is said to have rest under a big pear tree and moved to Ivry, where the house where he spent the night is still shown.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/fr-27-ib.html (1762 words)

	Fort La Tour
		Also visible is a tall flagstaff flying a white banner with gold fleurs de lys, the symbol of the royal power of France which La Tour, as a king's representative, was entitled to display.
		Various buildings were ordered around it, including a chapel and probably quarters for La Tour's Recollet priests as well as a dispensary where the surgeon and apothecary presided (we know they were there because they had signed contracts, preserved in France, to serve La Tour for a term of years).
		There were a few women also: Jeanne, La Tour's daughter by his first wife, and Françoise Jacquelin, his second wife (Frenchwomen kept their maiden names in those days) as well as her waiting woman.
	new-brunswick.net /Saint_John/latour/fortlatour.html (1933 words)

	Infantry in Battle
		INFANTRY IN BATTLE was prepared by the Military History and Publications Section of The Infantry School under the direction of Colonel George C. Marshall.
		Just north of la Forge Farm the leading company of the advance guard surprised a large detachment of German troops who were industriously preparing a position from which they could cover a clearing in the forest.
		In the Battle of Guise, on August 29, 1914, initial contact on the front of the German Guard Corps seems to have been made by the corps signal battalion which, through error, marched into the enemy lines.
	www-cgsc.army.mil /carl/resources/csi/iib_iji/iib_iji.asp (21174 words)

	C.H. Weston. Three Years with the New Zealanders. Chapters 5-8
		For the purposes of the battle the Division was transferred temporarily from the 2nd Anzac Corps to the 15th Corps.
		The tide of battle had ebbed, and in front of me a sullen, angry barrage from the German Howitzers was playing on the trenches that the enemy knew by now he had lost.
		Inter-Platoon matches were struggles indeed, but battles of giants were the games against the Taranaki Company of the 2nd Battalion, whom we beat 11-5, and against the Battalion Transport, whom we were leading 3-0, with one minute to go, when the ball burst.
	lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/memoir/NZ/kiwi2.htm (14076 words)

	Jehanne la Pucelle
		However, for the honor and love of the Pucelle, the bride would receive prayers from the citizens, and bread and red and white wine on the day of her benediction.
		La Pieronne defended Jehanne after she was taken prisoner, and was herself burnt at the stake (September 1430) for her support, as well as for blasphemy.
		Jehanne stated that after this battle she carried the captured Burgundian sword.
	www.stjoan-center.com /time_line/part07.html (2530 words)

	Calonne-sur-la-Lys Communal Cemetery, Nord (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		During the withdrawal of the British Expeditionary Force to Dunkirk in May 1940, there was heavy fighting in the area around Calonne-sur-la-Lys, and most of the inhabitants left the area.
		The school was used by the Germans as an aid post, and British soldiers who died at Calonne, either in battle or of wounds while prisoners, were buried by the Germans in the field behind the school.
		In 1942 the local people moved these graves into the communal cemetery, but in the meantime the rough grave markers had in many instances become illegible.
	www.silentcities.co.uk /cemeteryc/Calonne-sur-la-Lys%20Communal%20Cemetery,%20Nord.htm (176 words)

	Fort San Carlos and the Battle of 1780
		As soon as the British received the eastern part of Louisiana in 1763 as part of the settlement of the Seven Years War with France (called the French and Indian War in America), they imposed a treaty line which forbade English settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains (the Treaty of Fort Stanwix).
		The battle lasted for two hours, with 21 villagers killed and 71 captured.
		The St. Louis battle was fought by the predominantly French citizens under a Spanish governor and a small number of Spanish troops, African-American slaves, and a smattering of American settlers.
	www.nps.gov /jeff/LewisClark2/Circa1804/StLouis/BlockInfo/Block100FortSanCarlosBattle1780.htm (906 words)

	The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude by Etienne de la Boetie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		La Boétie wrote the following essay while still a law student at the University of Orléans in the early 1550s.
		They believed firmly that the great toe of Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, performed miracles and cured diseases of the spleen; they even enhanced the tale further with the legend that this toe, after the corpse had been burned, was found among the ashes, untouched by the fire.
		La Boetie has accurately rendered the lines concerning the moth.---H.K. The word was used by Homer in the Iliad, Book I, Line 341.---M.N.R.
	tmh.floonet.net /articles/laboetie.html (9103 words)

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