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Calvados is the regimental drink of The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, The Royal Regina Rifles, The Royal Canadian Hussars, Le Régiment de Hull, Le Régiment de Maisonneuve, and The Sherbrooke Hussars. The troops were given Calvados as the units passed through Normandy following the D-Day invasion.
Honfleur (French: ⓘ) is a commune in the Calvados department in northwestern France. It is located on the southern bank of the estuary of the Seine across from Le Havre and very close to the exit of the Pont de Normandie.
Calvados, via the port of Ouistreham, is an entrance to the continent from Britain. There are two airports: Caen-Carpiquet and Deauville-Saint Gatien . The department of Calvados has several popular tourist areas: the Bessin , the Plain of Caen , the Bocage Virois, the Côte de Nacre , the Côte Fleurie and the Pays d'Auge .
It is located in, and named after, Bény-sur-Mer, in the Calvados department, near Caen, in lower Normandy. As is typical of war cemeteries in France, the grounds are landscaped and kept. Contained within the cemetery is a cross of sacrifice, a monument typical of memorials designed by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Blainville-sur-Orne in the Calvados département, Basse-Normandie; Blainville, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal, Quebec; Blainville (provincial electoral district), a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada; Blainville (AMT), railway station in Blainville, Quebec; People: Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777–1850), French zoologist ...
Badsey wrote that histories of the battle acknowledge the importance of Cherbourg to the Allies as an entrepôt for supplies and that landing on the Calvados coast, instead of the Cotentin peninsula was a compromise, because of the defensive advantage that the terrain of the peninsula gave to the Germans and the importance of gaining ground ...
The region included three departments, Calvados, Manche and Orne, that cover the part of Normandy traditionally termed "Lower Normandy" lying west of the river Dives, the Pays d'Auge (except a small part remaining in Upper Normandy), a small part of the Pays d'Ouche (the main part remaining in Upper Normandy), the Norman Perche, and part of the "French" Perche.
The following is a list of the 25 cantons of the Calvados department, in France, following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015: [1] [2] Bayeux Cabourg