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Le Boudin" (French pronunciation: [lə budɛ̃]), officially "Marche de la Légion Étrangère" (English "March of the Foreign Legion"), is the official march of the Foreign Legion. "Le Boudin" is a reference to boudin, a type of blood sausage or black pudding. "Le boudin" colloquially meant the gear (rolled up in a blanket) that used to be ...
The remains of Turnberry Castle, Robert the Bruce's likely birthplace. Robert the Bruce was born on 11 July 1274. [3] [1] His place of birth is not known for certain.It most likely was Turnberry Castle in Ayrshire, the head of his mother's earldom, [4] despite claims that he may have been born in Lochmaben in Dumfriesshire, or Writtle in Essex.
A corporal in the Royal Irish Fusiliers during WW II, awarded the Légion d'honneur in 2015, aged 91, in recognition for his part in the D-Day Normandy Landings (Gold Beach). [150] Derrick Dighton, a British veteran, was awarded Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 2016 for his efforts during the D-Day landings.
Robert II de la Marck (1468 – November 1536) was the Duke of Bouillon and Lord of Sedan. [1] He was the son of Robert I de la Marck and Jeanne de Saulcy. [2] Biography
14th century: A military song entitled "La marche des soldats de Robert Bruce" (march of the soldiers of Robert Bruce) is still played in France nowadays, for instance during the Bastille Day military parade. 1847: Robert Bruce, a pasticcio opera by Gioacchino Rossini; 1968: The Corries song "Flower of Scotland" is a tribute to Robert Bruce. It ...
Born in Sedan, Ardennes, in 1491, Robert was the son of Robert II de la Marck; Duke of Bouillon, Seigneur of Sedan and Fleuranges, [1] and Catherine de Croÿ. [2]A fondness for military exercises displayed itself in his earliest years, and at the age of ten, Robert was sent to the court of Louis XII, and placed in charge of the count of Angoulême, afterwards King Francis I.
Boso I le Vieux (the Old), count of La Marche and count of Périgord (958–988) Aldebert I, count of La Marche and Périgord (988–997) Boso II, count of La Marche and Périgord (988–1010) Bernard I (1010–1041) His daughter, Almodis, married firstly with Hugh V of Lusignan, and their son Hugh VI inherited later the county of Marche by her ...
The campaign is described in books 14 to 16 of John Barbour's, 1375–77, epic poem The Brus, for his principle patron, Robert II of Scotland. [ 8 ] In Nigel Tranter 's novel The Price of the King's Peace , the third part of his Robert the Bruce trilogy, the campaign, and particularly Robert's visit to Ireland to support his brother, are ...