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They briefly captured Mortain but were unable to breach the lines of the 30th Division, as the 2nd Battalion of the 120th Infantry Regiment commanded Hill 314, the dominant feature around Mortain. [16] Although cut off, they were supplied by parachute drops. Of the 700 men who defended the position until 12 August, over 300 were killed or ...
With his loss of Normandy the comté was lost, but after the recapture of the province by the House of Lancaster, Edmund Beaufort, a grandson of John of Gaunt, was created count of Mortain and so styled till 1441, when he was made earl of Dorset. In August 1944, Mortain was the site of an important battle between the German and American forces.
German counter-attacks forced gaps in the Allied lines, the most significant of which was a corridor forced past the 1st Polish Armoured Division on Hill 262, a commanding position at the pocket mouth. By the evening of 21 August, the pocket had been sealed, with an estimated 50,000 Germans trapped inside.
World War II: European Theater. The West Point Atlas of War. Tess Press. ISBN 1-60376-023-7. Green, Michael (1999). Patton and the Battle of the Bulge: Operation Cobra and Beyond. MBI. ISBN 0-7603-0652-4. Griess, Thomas (2002). The Second World War: Europe and the Mediterranean (SquareOne ed.). West Point, New York: Department of History ...
Mortain-Bocage (French pronunciation: [mɔʁtɛ̃ bɔkaʒ]) is a commune in the department of Manche, northwestern France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 by merger of the former communes of Bion , Mortain (the seat), Notre-Dame-du-Touchet , Saint-Jean-du-Corail and Villechien .
The County of Mortain was a medieval county in France centered on the town of Mortain. A choice landholding, usually either kept within the family of the duke of Normandy (or the king of France) or granted to a noble in return for service and favor. This was the main reason Mortain had so many counts, as shown below, during its long history.
The heights of Le Mort Homme (French pronunciation: [lə mɔʁ ɔm]) or Dead Man's Hill (German: Toter Mann) lie within the French municipality of Cumières-le-Mort-Homme around 10 km (6 mi) north-west of the city of Verdun in France. The hill became known during the Battle of Verdun during the First World War as the site of much fighting.
Saint-Jean-du-Corail (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ dy kɔʁaj]) is a former commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. [2] On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Mortain-Bocage. [3] Its population was 237 in 2019. [1]