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    Avesnes-le-Sec (French pronunciation: [avɛn lə sɛk]) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. Chemin de fer du Cambrésis Communes of the...
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    The Battle of Avesnes-le-Sec was a military action during the Flanders Campaign of the French Revolutionary Wars, between French forces under General Nicolas...
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  • Seine-Maritime Avesnes-le-Comte, département Pas-de-Calais Avesnes-les-Aubert, département Nord Avesnes-lès-Bapaume, département Pas-de-Calais Avesnes-le-Sec, département...
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    Avesnes-lès-Bapaume (French pronunciation: [avɛn bapom], literally Avesnes near Bapaume) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France...
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    marriage in Le Quesnoy in 1212, with Bouchard Avesnes, her teacher she had chosen herself, she had two surviving sons, John and Baldwin of Avesnes. She divorced...
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    he participated in an "outstandingly effective cavalry action" at Avesnes-le-Sec on 12 September 1793, where 4,663 Republican troops suffered losses...
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    flows through the town. Upstream of Avesnes on the river there is the Lac du Val-Joly, an artificial lake. Avesnes was founded in the 11th century. The...
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    Dunkirk (redirect from Malo-les-Bains)
    December 2010. Dunkirk has the third-largest harbour in France, after those of Le Havre and Marseille. As an industrial city, it depends heavily on the steel...
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    (2001). Le Patrimoine des Communes du Nord (Flohic ed.). Flohic. ISBN 2-84234-119-8. Duhamel, Jean-Marie (2004). Lille, Traces d'histoire. Les patrimoines...
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    Villars and his principal lieutenants drew up their plan of attack at Avesnes-le-Sec. They chose the windmill there as a vantage point for observation of...
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