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    The Pointe de Grave (in occitan : Punta de Grava) is the northernmost tip of the Médoc Peninsula and marks the Northern end of the pine-clad sandy Landes...
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    island of Oléron north of the Gironde, and a stretch from Pointe de Grave to Saint-Vivien-de-Médoc and Vensac to its south. The Royan pocket was fully...
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  • of colonel Raymond Chomel. South, pockets of La Rochelle, Royan and Pointe de Grave, 12,000 men under command of colonel Henri Adeline. These French troops...
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    forces and played a critical role in the Pointe de Grave battle with their Gernika Battalion (Gironde). De Gaulle commented, "France will never forget...
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    southwestern France. The city is mid-way between Bordeaux and the Pointe de Grave, along the Gironde, the largest estuary in western Europe. The town...
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  • Les poches de l'Atlantique: Les batailles oubliées de la Libération Janvier 1944 - mai 1945, Tallandier, ISBN 979-10-210-0492-4 Sortir de la Seconde Guerre...
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    Wallace and Ewart in Coalfish had been captured at daybreak near the Pointe de Grave lighthouse where they had come ashore. By the end of the second night...
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    Cracovie. The other branch starts at Gare de Blanquefort and runs alongside the SNCF line to Pointe-de-Grave [fr] as far as Ausone, from where it follows...
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    Within the estuary between the Pointe de Grave at the seaward end and the Bec d'Ambès are a series of small islands. The Île de Patiras is 200 ha in size with...
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    do Castelo, Valença. The EV1 running alongside a tourist railway, Pointe de Grave, France. The EV1 in the coastal pine forest in Médoc connecting the...
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