SOMME, River, France

river, c.150 mi (240 km) long, rising near Saint-Quentin, N France, and flowing generally NW past Amiens into the English Channel; connected by canal with the Scheldt and Oise rivers. Once an obstacle to east-west movement, the now reclaimed marshlands in the valley are noted for truck farming. During World War I heavy fighting took place there.

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books on: Somme River France  - 315 results

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The Battles of the Somme, 1916: Historiography and Annotated Bibliography
Book by Fred R. Van Hartesveldt; Greenwood Press, 1996
Subjects: Somme, 1st Battle Of The, France, 1916--Bibliography, Somme, 1st Battle Of The, France, 1916--Historiography
...Chantilly late in 1915. France remained the dominant...Picardy astride the Somme River, which marked the...major effort at the Somme, suffering perhaps...histories are by the Somme. Joffre pressed...when they arrived in France. Haig was also concerned...
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The Old Front Line
Book by John Masefield; Macmillan & Co., 1917
Subjects: Somme, 1st Battle Of The, France, 1916
...some difficult, rather lovely, steep chalk slopes, wooded in parts, to the ruins of Fargny Mill on the Somme River. The Somme River is here a very beautiful expanse of clear chalk water like a long wandering shallow lake. Through this shallow...
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The Great Wall of France: The Triumph of the Maginot Line
Book by Vivian Rowe; Putnam, 1961
Subjects: Maginot Line (France), World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France
Semois, river: to be crossed on D3 of Manstein Plan...across Seine at, 253 Sensee canal and river: Frankforce to secure positions on...Solre-le Chateau: Rommel enters France at, 167 Somme, river: casualties at battle of, 30 ; 1...
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The Regions of France: A Reference Guide to History and Culture
Book by Wayne Northcutt; Greenwood Press, 1996
Subjects: Decentralization In Government--France--History--20th Century, France--Civilization--1945-, Popular Culture--France--Regions
...Normandy , 191 , 193 Seine River, 2 , 90 , 115 , 116...department Ile-de- France , 115 , 117 Une Semaine...238 ; Travels through France and Italy, 177 , 238...107 ; and Ile-de-France, 117 ; and Languedoc...Burgundy , 66 Solvay, 109 Somme department Picardy...
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France during World War II: From Defeat to Liberation
Book by Thomas R. Christofferson, Michael S. Christofferson; Fordham University Press, 2006
Subjects: France--History--German Occupation, 1940-1945, France--Social Conditions--20th Century, World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France, World War, 1939-1945--France
...the French army along the Somme River, which was not a very formidable...Belfort in the east and Southern France to bolster the lines. No...the Germans. A loss on the Somme, Weygand claimed, would require France to negotiate with the enemy...
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journal articles on: Somme River France  - 33 results

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"Le Regenerateur De la France": Literary Accounts of Napoleonic Regeneration 1799-1805
Journal article by Katia Sainson; Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Vol. 30, 2001
Subjects: Characters and characteristics in literature--Analysis, Cultural policy--Analysis, Emperors--Portrayals, French literature--19th century AD, Literary characters--Analysis, Monarchy--France, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French--Portrayals
...descending towards the river of death. His description...early nineteenth century France. In the early years...new nation. The New France could not have its roots...threw himself into the Somme. It was published posthumously...descendant of the Kings of France (1:171) would reign...
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An Introduction to British Library Ms Lansdowne 380
Journal article by Kathleen Sewright; Music Library Association. Notes, Vol. 65, 2009
Subjects: Libraries, Poetry
...the valley of the Somme River and its towns, which lay between France and the Burgundian...institutions of central France and the Loire River Valley; and texts...dont me sens tel somme, was authored...courts of central France. This "pocket...
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Was Stalemate on the Western Front the Fault of the Generals? Andy Lawrence Insists That We Must Think for Ourselves to Unravel One of the Great Historical Conundrums
Journal article by Andy Lawrence; History Review, 2005
Subjects: Generals--Behavior, Great Britain (World War I), United Kingdom. Army, Western front (World War I)
...a major battle on the Somme is a prime example. Haig...unity in the alliance with France, the politicians decided...attack must come on the River Somme simply because that was...The BEF that was sent to France in 1914 was a very professional...
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What's in a Name?: The Development of Strategies of Attrition on the Western Front, 1914-1918
Journal article by Robert T. Foley; The Historian, Vol. 68, 2006
Subjects: Western front (World War I)--Analysis
...Therefore, he felt that France, already weakened by...salient in northeastern France. On 16 February, de...other parts of northern France, hence offering fewer...certain degree by the Somme River. Seeckt thought that...
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"Handmaid" of the Army?
Journal article by Alexus G. Grynkewich; Airpower Journal, Vol. 11, 1997
Subjects: Armed forces, Army Air Corps-US, Luftwaffe, Military aircraft, Military strategy, World War II
...the offensive against France.29 Although the Luftwaffes...the bridgehead over the Somme River.32 Later in the campaign...partisan after the fall of France, recorded his impression...scattered over almost all of France."41 Regarding specific...
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magazine articles on: Somme River France  - 26 results

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Missing
Magazine article by Fraser Bell; Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 108, Summer 2001
Subjects: Fiction--Works, Modernist Wars: From the Somme to the Ebro, 1916-1939 (Book)--Excerpts
...Commissions headstones in northern France and Belgium. Scotland, says...just beyond a bend in the river or crushed under a motorway...people, events: Haig and the Somme; Red October and Dadaism...titled Modernist Wars: From the Somme to the Ebro (1916-1939...
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D-day: Launching the 'great Crusade'
Magazine article by Martin Blumenson; Army, Vol. 54, June 2004
Subjects: Army-US, Invasions, Military history, Military occupations, Nazi era, Normandy France, World War II
...the east, to the Seine River, there to trap the Germans...catch the Germans at the Somme. This was consistent...eastward across the Seine River below Paris, Patton had...laden with the loot of France overturned and smoldering...they crossed the Seine River. As they streamed across...
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Scourge of the North Atlantic
Magazine article by William H. Langenberg; Sea Classics, Vol. 43, February 2010
...Holland, Luxembourg, and France began. This blitzkrieg...battlefields of northern France. Armored columns broke through north of the Somme River to the English Channel...south toward Paris, and France did not long survive the...
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End of an Old Song
Magazine article by Fraser Bell; Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 112, Spring 2005
Subjects: Military music
...The point about the "Somme" is that its not what...piping, for example, the "Somme" is described also as...uplands of north-eastern France. They called it the Big...mile front north of the Somme River between Albert and Peronne...
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Breaking the Time Barrier: Clive Gamble Revisits the Moment at Which Archaeologists Realized That Human Prehistory Was Far Longer Than Biblical Scholars Had Imagined; and Links This to Today's Debates about the Antiquity of the Human Mind with Its Capacity for Self-Aware Thought
Magazine article by Clive Gamble; History Today, Vol. 58, May 2008
Subjects: Archaeology--History, Prehistoric peoples--Research, World history--Research
...history in a gravel pit in northern France. Joseph Prestwich, at forty-seven...on the outskirts of Amiens on the Somme River. He ran the paper company in Hertfordshire...situ--that had been made on the Somme. How was the discovery received...
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newspaper articles on: Somme River France  - 59 results

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Following the Tyre Tracks of the Somme's Lost Generation; AGENDA Ninety-Two Years after the Somme, Britain's Bloodiest Battle, Reached Its Most Horrific Stage, Keen Cyclist Perry Buck Spends a Long Weekend Following the Western Front across Northern France on Bicycle
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), September 15, 2008
Subjects: Cyclists
...ridges above the Somme river all afternoon. At nearby...proud above the river Somme and its deathly past...the damp rain of the Somme is almost forgotten...Thiepval Memorial in the Somme battlefield area of Northern France, designed by Edward...
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(1)Pilmgrimage to the Somme (2)We Owe It to Them to Visit This Foreign Filed; Travel Mail/ July 1, 1916.Only the Soldiers' Courage Matched the Incompetance of Their Orders.57,470 Were Shot Down - the Biggest Ever One-Day Casualty List
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), June 9, 1996
...This is the battlefield of the Somme, soon to be invaded again on...battle above the slow-meandering River Somme in northern France petered out four months later...Commonwealth have never forgotten the Somme, its very name still used as...
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The Somme of All Fears
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 3, 2006
Subjects: Soldiers, Television programs--Television program reviews
...commemorations that took place in Britain and France this weekend. I know we British are...defeated British Expeditionary Force in France in 1940 was brought safely home. But on the River Somme in northern France on July 1, 1916, a British and French...
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RETURN TO THE SOMME; 'No Man's Land Covered with Bodies .. the Whole Infantry Seemed to Be Lying out There. Hands, Feet and Shinbones Protruding from the Raw Earth, Stinking of High Explosive.'
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), July 1, 2006
RETURN TO THE SOMME; No Mans Land Covered with Bodies...ROS WYNNE-JONES in Thiepval, Somme THE fields are flat and fertile now...German tunnels in an area of Northern France named after the River Somme. All was quiet on the Western Front...
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The Great War's Darkest Day; Ninety Years Ago, Liverpool Clerks Joined Thousands of Soldiers Walking towards the German Trenches on the Somme. David Charters Reports
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), June 28, 2006
Subjects: Soldiers
...of Picardy, northern France, were turned into a...Serre, north of the River Ancre, and Curlu, south of the River Somme. Half an hour before...training camps on the River Somme. A few months earlier...Verdun region "to bleed France white". In a slaughter...
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encyclopedia articles on: Somme River France  - 7 results

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Somme , River, France
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SOMME , river, France river, c.150 mi (240 km...near Saint-Quentin, N France, and flowing generally...with the Scheldt and Oise rivers. Once an obstacle to east...fighting took place near the river...
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Abbeville , Town, France
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ABBEVILLE , town, France abvel , town (1990 pop. 24,588), Somme dept., N France, in Picardy , on the Somme River. Sugar refining, brewing, iron working, and carpet manufacturing are the chief industries. Abbeville received its commercial...
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PÉronne
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...paron , town (1993 est. pop. 9,200), Somme dept., N France, in Picardy, on the Somme River. It is a farm trade center, and its manufactures...the Bold of Burgundy forced on Louis XI of France a humiliating treaty in 1468. In World War...
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Amiens
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...136,234), capital of Somme dept., N France, in Picardy , on the Somme River. It is a rail hub and a large...carried on in the surrounding Somme marshlands. Also an important...largest Gothic cathedral in France. It is 470 ft (143 m) long...
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Saint-Quentin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SAINT-QUENTIN saN-kaNtaN , city (1990 pop. 62,085), Aisne dept., N France, on the Somme River. Foundry products, machinery, textiles, and food products are manufactured. Saint-Quentin was famous for its cloth during...
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