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Torreon was resettled in the Spring of 1841 by Nino Antonio Montoya and twenty-six other farmers under a grant from the Prefect of the Central District of New Mexico. [2] The Torreon Grant was named after the defensive towers [3] built at Manzano 6.6 miles to the south, and consisted of an area approximately three miles east–west by six miles ...
Boats in Chausey Sound. The two-master on the right is a traditional type known as a Bisquine. Map of Chausey islands. Grande-Île, the main island, is 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) long and 0.5 kilometres (0.31 mi) wide at its widest (approximately 45 hectares (110 acres)), though this is just the tip of a substantial and complex archipelago which is exposed at low tide.
Torreon, Torrance County, New Mexico This page was last edited on 30 December 2019, at 16:49 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
American and Allied forces prepare for landing on Normandy beaches in France on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy in northern France on June 6, ...
General George Patton's Third Army's Seine River Crossing at Mantes-Gassicourt was the first allied bridgehead across the Seine River in the aftermath of Operation Overlord, which allowed the Allies to engage in the Liberation of Paris. During the two days of the bridge crossing, American anti-aircraft artillery shot down almost fifty German ...
The name Vexin is derived from a name for a Gaulish tribe now known as the Veliocasses.They had inhabited the area and made Rouen their most important city.. The Norse nobleman Rollo of Normandy (c. 846 – c. 931), the first ruler of the Viking principality that became Normandy, made several incursions into the western half of the county.
The Cotentin peninsula is part of the Armorican Massif [2] (with the exception of the Plain lying in the Paris Basin) and lies between the estuary of the Vire river and Mont Saint-Michel Bay. It is divided into three areas: the headland of Cap de la Hague , the Cotentin Pass (the Plain ), and the valley of the Saire River ( Val de Saire ).
The road between Évreux and Caen follows a straight course of a former Roman road linking Paris to Normandy. The road crosses the river Risle and the A28 autoroute at La Rivière-Thibouville . The road bypasses the town of Lisieux before dropping into the Plaine de Caen, where it crosses the river Dives .