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2. Mémorial de Caen - Wikipedia

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   The Mémorial de Caen is a museum and war memorial in Caen, Normandy, France commemorating World War II and the Battle for Caen. More generally, the museum is dedicated to the history of the twentieth century, mainly focused on the fragility of peace. Its intention is "pay a tribute to the martyred city of the liberation" but also to tell "what ...

3. Battle for Caen - Wikipedia

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   The landings at Normandy, the battle and the Second World War are remembered today with many memorials; Caen hosts the Mémorial with a peace museum (Musée de la paix). The museum was built by the city of Caen on top of where the bunker of General Wilhelm Richter, the commander of the 716th Infantry Division, was located.

4. Bayeux war cemetery - Wikipedia

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   The Bayeux Memorial was erected in white stone facing the cemetery. The Latin epitaph along the frieze of the memorial is reference to William the Conqueror and the Invasion of England in 1066: NOS A GULIELMO VICTI VICTORIS PATRIAM LIBERAVIMUS. The translation reads: "We, once conquered by William, have now set free the Conqueror's native land."

5. The Memorial of Saint Helena - Wikipedia

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   The Memorial of Saint Helena (French: Le Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène), written by Emmanuel de Las Cases, is a journal-memoir of the beginning of Napoleon Bonaparte's exile on Saint Helena. The core of the work transcribes Las Cases' near-daily conversations with the former Emperor on his life, his career, his political philosophy, and the ...

6. Napoleon I's exile to St. Helena - Wikipedia

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   The Prisoner of War (Napoleon on the Island of St. Helena) by J. Searle Dawley (1912) The Agony of the Eagles by Dominique Bertinotti and Julien Duvivier, uncredited (1920–1921) Napoleon at Saint Helena or La Fin de Napoléon à Sainte-Hélène (Napoleon auf St. Helena ou Der Gefangene Kaiser) by Lupu Pick (1929).

7. List of military cemeteries in Normandy - Wikipedia

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   Saint-Désir-de-Lisieux War Cemetery contains 594 burials and is adjacent to the German cemetery of the same name. Saint-Manvieu War Cemetery contains 1,627 Commonwealth burials, 49 of them unidentified. There are also 555 German burials. Secqueville-en-Bessin War Cemetery contains 114 fallen soldiers, the majority from the advance on Caen in ...