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Clearing the Channel Coast was a World War II task undertaken by the First Canadian Army in August 1944, following the Allied Operation Overlord and the victory, break-out and pursuit from Normandy. The Canadian army advanced from Normandy to the Scheldt river in Belgium. En route, they were to capture the Channel ports needed to supply the ...
As part of the Atlantic Wall, between 1940 and 1945 the occupying German forces and the Organisation Todt constructed fortifications around the coasts of the Channel Islands such as this observation tower at Battery Moltke. The military occupation of the Channel Islands by Nazi Germany lasted for most of the Second World War, from 30 June 1940 ...
The Channel Ports are seaports in southern England and northern France, which allow for short crossings of the English Channel. There is no formal definition, but there is a general understanding of the term. Some ferry companies divide their routes into "short" and "long" crossings. The broadest definition might be from Plymouth east to Kent ...
Saint-Malo (UK: / s æ̃ ˈ m ɑː l oʊ /, [3] US: / ˌ s æ̃ m ə ˈ l oʊ /, [4] [5] French: [sɛ̃ malo] ⓘ; Gallo: Saent-Malô; Breton: Sant-Maloù) is a historic French port in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany. The walled city on the English Channel coast had a long history of piracy, earning much wealth from local extortion and overseas ...
The Port of Calais was the first cable ship port in Europe and is the fourth largest port in France and the largest for passenger traffic. [136] The port accounts for more than a third of economic activity of the town of Calais. Cargo traffic has tripled over the past two decades.
German infantry on the battlefield, 7 August 1914. The Western Front was the place where the most powerful military forces in Europe, the German and French armies, met and where the First World War was decided. [ 14 ] At the outbreak of the war, the German Army, with seven field armies in the west and one in the east, executed a modified ...
The Atlantic U-boat campaign of World War I (sometimes called the "First Battle of the Atlantic", in reference to the World War II campaign of that name) was the prolonged naval conflict between German submarines and the Allied navies in Atlantic waters—the seas around the British Isles, the North Sea and the coast of France.
Breton flags. Corsican flags. Flags of Île-de-France. Occitan flags. Flags of Pays de la Loire. Presidential standards. Former French Empire. Le Tricolore, the national flag of France. This list includes flags that either have been in use or are currently used by France, French Overseas Collectivites, the Sui Generis Collectivity and the ...