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US Army map of the Cotentin peninsula in 1944, showing the Merderet. The Merderet is a 36.4-kilometre-long (22.6-mile) river in Normandy, France, which is a tributary to the river Douve. [1] It runs roughly north-south down the middle of the Cotentin peninsula from Valognes to the junction with the Douve at Beuzeville la Bastille.
The Dives (French pronunciation:; also Dive) is a 105 km long river in the Pays d'Auge, Normandy, France. [1] It flows into the English Channel in Cabourg. The source of the Dives is near Exmes, in the Orne department. The Dives flows generally north through the following departments and towns: Orne: Trun
The Orne (French: ⓘ) is a river in Normandy, within northwestern France. It is 170 km (110 mi) long. [1] It discharges into the English Channel at the port of Ouistreham. Its source is in Aunou-sur-Orne, east of Sées. Its main tributaries are the Odon and the Rouvre.
The Battle of Chambois was the scene of some of the bitterest fighting during the Normandy campaign.In August 1944, the Falaise pocket (or Falaise gap) was closed when Canadian, Polish (1st Armoured Division (Polish 1 Dywizja Pancerna)) and US (90th Infantry Division formations sealed off the gap on 19/20 August 1944.
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Amfreville ( French pronunciation: [ɑ̃fʁəvil] ⓘ ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France .
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Dives-sur-Mer ( French pronunciation: [div syʁ mɛʁ] ⓘ , literally Dives on Sea ; Norman : Dives sus Mé ) is a commune in the Calvados department in Normandy in northwestern France .
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Saint-Lambert-sur-Dive ( French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ lɑ̃bɛʁ syʁ div] ⓘ , literally Saint-Lambert on Dive ) is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France .
The 14th-century church of Notre Dame had a dome (dated 1612), the only example of a Gothic dome in France. The whole building was destroyed in 1944 during the Battle of Normandy . Before the French Revolution , Valognes was the residence of more than a hundred families of distinguished birth and fortune, and was for a long time afterwards the ...