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A new région fortifiée de Belfort (RFB) was again proposed in 1922 by the Territorial Defense Commission (commission de défense du territoire), which identified three potential invasion routes from Germany, the Belfort Gap, between the Vosges Mountains and the Rhine and across the Lorraine plateau The committee's final report proposed a ...
It forms part of the Séré de Rivières system fortifications in the fortified region of Belfort in northeastern France. It is located at the summit of Salbert hill to the northwest of Belfort. During the early years of the Cold War it briefly served as an air defense coordination center. [1] Plan of the original Séré de Rivières fort
The siege of Belfort (3 November 1870 – 18 February 1871) was a 103-day military assault and blockade of the city of Belfort, France by Prussian forces during the Franco-Prussian War. The French garrison held out until the January 1871 armistice between France and the German Empire obligated French forces to abandon the stronghold in February ...
Pages in category "Fortified region of Belfort" ... Fort de Giromagny; R. Fort de Roppe This page was last edited on 13 October 2016, at 08:22 (UTC ...
From 1893 the fort was linked to other forts around Belfort via the Chemins de fer du Territoire de Belfort strategic railroad. In 1940 the fort was manned by the 8th Battery of the 159th Position Artillery Regiment (RAP), part of the fortified region of Belfort under the French 8th Army, Army Group 3. From 16 March 1940 the RF Belfort became ...
The administrative district Territoire de Belfort was created under the terms of the 1871 Treaty of Frankfurt.The German Empire annexed almost all of Alsace, but the French were able to negotiate retention of the Territoire de Belfort which thereby was separated from the rest of Alsace (where it had been part of the department of Haut-Rhin).
Over the past year, a number of high-profile companies have done about-faces on diversity, including Meta (), Walmart (), McDonald's (), Lowe’s (), Ford (), Tractor Supply (), and John Deere ...
Pages in category "Fortifications of Belfort" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. ... Fort de Giromagny; N. NATO Ouvrage "G" R.