| However, D day planners failed to anticipate the difficulties of the Normandy bocage. |
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| It is bocage country, still densely wooded, with small pastures intersected by deep leafy lanes. |
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| The treacherous bocage, the countryside criss-crossed by sunken lanes between high hedgerows, was a killing ground for the German defenders. |
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| When the 90th Division went ashore 2 days after D-Day, it was not ready for ferocious combat in the bocage. |
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| In July 1944 his army was held up between the beaches and the bocage in Normandy. |
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| There was a sprinkling of roadside crosses and the bocage, the thick hedges along the roadsides, could hardly have been more bosky. |
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| The bocage, low-lying country with high hedgerows, offered insufficient routes of advance and canalized American movements, which the Germans easily countered. |
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| The British Second Army was still stalled in front of Caen and the American First Army was mired in the swamps and bocage of the lower Cotentin Peninsula. |
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| The landscape is extremely varied, with clay soils in Zeland and Groning, flowering bulbs near the Holland coast or bocage in the east. |
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| So the Norman part of the Bay is characterized by traditional lush green bocage, particularly in the valleys of the Sée and the Sélune. |
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| The bocage terrain of western Normandy favoured the resolute defender, and there was growing concern at an invasion which seemed to have stuck fast. |
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| Then we started the drive through the bocage of Normandy, the maze of fields, hedges and ditches William the Conqueror shaped to slow down German tanks and Ford Cortinas. |
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| Here are the high plains and deeply-cleft bocage country of Normandy, the stony, prehistoric wilds of Brittany, and the richly-planted riversides of the Seine and the Loire. |
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| The other, benign, face of the bocage was its role as an unbelievably productive larder. |
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| The development of bocage country in Europe is explained by the need to provide timber in regions where forests had suffered considerable decline. |
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| The bocage typical of the western areas caused problems for the invading forces in the Battle of Normandy. |
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| The bocage is a patchwork of small fields with high hedges, typical of western areas. |
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| Situated in the centre of a fertile grain-growing region, within sight of the verdant bocage of Normandy, Caen is a major service centre for all of western Normandy. |
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| Subsequent extension to bocage areas had more severe consequences for landscape values and ecology, as hedges, sunken lanes, and ponds disappeared in favour of a new open landscape. |
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| At Moissy they headed into a one-lane road, both banks thick with bocage. |
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| This has resulted in a landscape similar to that found in Normandy known as bocage. |
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| The best soils were primitively covered by large forests which had been progressively replaced by bocage during the Middle Ages. |
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| Gathering together into fighting units was made difficult by a shortage of radios and by the bocage terrain, with its hedgerows, stone walls, and marshes. |
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| Both accused come from Bocage and are currently on remand at Bordelais awaiting trial. |
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| The bank has hired Thomas Deininger, Paul Mehta and Laetitia du Bocage to join the credit sales desk in London. |
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| The locations he used were four historic preCivil War plantations Felicity, Magnolia, Bocage and Destrehan. |
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| But the strangest story of all is how he was badly injured when observing for the guns as the Germans defended the village of Villas Bocage. |
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| Most recently, he served as chief executive officer of Bocage Group, a private investment company specializing in energy, natural resources and master limited partnerships. |
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| However, an early Portuguese expression of Romanticism is found already in Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, especially in his sonnets dated at the end of the 18th century. |
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