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Blainville-sur-Orne is on the west side of the Canal de Caen à la Mer, just south of Bénouville and the famous Pegasus Bridge of D-Day fame. The town is also home to a Renault Trucks (formerly Saviem) manufacturing plant. The plant is across the canal to the southeast, between the canal and the Orne River.
Pierre-Joseph Céloron de Blainville (29 December 1693 – 14 April 1759), also known as Celeron de Bienville (or Céleron, or Céloron, etc.), was a French Canadian Officer of Marine. In 1739 and 1740 he led a detachment to Louisiana to fight the Chickasaw in the abortive Chickasaw Campaign of 1739 .
The government of Sierra Leone began issuing visas on arrival on 5 September 2019. [7]Citizens of the following countries may obtain a visa on arrival (valid for 1 month) at Freetown International Airport, Jendema (bordering Liberia) and Gbalamuya (bordering Guinea) for a fee 80 USD (unless otherwise noted): [8]
Licorne (1691), an 8-gun fluyt [2] Licorne (1702), a 52-gun ship of the line [2] Licorne (1756), a 32-gun frigate, lead ship of her class. Captured in 1778 by HMS America and taken into British service as HMS Licorne, sold in 1783. [2] Licorne (1780), a 20-gun corvette, formerly HMS Unicorn, that Andromaque captured in 1780.
Opération Licorne was a French Armed Forces peacekeeping operation in support of the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire. The French forces had been stationed in the country since shortly after the outbreak of the Ivorian Civil War. The troops' main mission was to support the United Nations peacekeeping mission and to ensure the ...
A similar name can be recognized in Blainville-sur-l'Eau (Villa Bladini 10th century) 'the estate of Bladinus ' [4] Crevon is a former parrish (Chevron 1068–76, Kevron 13th century, Quevron → 16th). Crevon is the metathesis of the Norman Quevron, that is chevron 'beam' in French, that is to say "beam to cross the stream".
Blainville may refer to: Places: Blainville-Crevon in the Seine-Maritime département, Haute-Normandie, France; Blainville-sur-Mer in the Manche département, Basse-Normandie, France; Blainville-sur-Orne in the Calvados département, Basse-Normandie; Blainville, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal, Quebec
Céloron de Blainville is a French family of officers and colonial administrators, who notably played a role in New France beginning in the 17th century. One member, Pierre Joseph Céloron de Blainville , is the subject of a folk song by Robert Schmertz entitled Celoron .