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[35] We speak of Mortain as we found it a few years ago; its sanitory arrangements have, we understand, been improved, but people are not yet enthusiastic about Mortain as a residence.
Normandy Picturesque Henry Blackburn 1863
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He fought in some of the most important battles of the war, landing at Utah Beach with the 12th Infantry Regiment of the Fourth Infantry Division and fighting in the battles of Normandy, St. Lo, Mortain, Hürtgen Forest, and the Bulge.
Archive 2010-02-01 Rus Bowden 2010
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 The case isÂsimilar in the July Revolution of 1830 - Margaux de Mortain fought against the Bourbon king Charles X to install a constitutional monarch, Louis-Philippe, who himself was overthrown 18 years later.
What I bought – 16 January 2008 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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Ten days after a disastrous German counterattack at Mortain, most of Army Group B was trapped and destroyed at Falaise.
Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs Patrick K. O'Donnell 2004
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Ten days after a disastrous German counterattack at Mortain, most of Army Group B was trapped and destroyed at Falaise.
Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs Patrick K. O'Donnell 2004
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Ten days after a disastrous German counterattack at Mortain, most of Army Group B was trapped and destroyed at Falaise.
Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs Patrick K. O'Donnell 2004
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Ten days after a disastrous German counterattack at Mortain, most of Army Group B was trapped and destroyed at Falaise.
Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs Patrick K. O'Donnell 2004
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August, Patton ordered XV Corps, which had captured Le Mans seventy miles to the rear and southeast of the enemy's Mortain line, to attack north across the German rear toward Argentan and Falaise. 47
Steel Victory Yeide, Harry 2003
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Its first losses at Mortain came not at enemy hands, however, but from British Typhoon fighter-bombers that struck two Shermans, knocking one out for good.
Steel Victory Yeide, Harry 2003
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He deployed five infantry divisions, backed by two armored combat commands, along eighteen miles of front between Mortain and Vire, and held three of Patton's divisions to anchor the right flank to the west of Mortain.
Steel Victory Yeide, Harry 2003
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