That attempt ended 85 days, two hurricanes and 15 capsizes later with her rescue by a freighter just 950 miles from her goal, Brest, France. |
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Whatever the cause, France ratted on his agreement, retaking Brest by force. |
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He lived in Borisy and worked in Brest, travelling to and fro by train via the station at Domachevo. |
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In fact, the eventual winner took on no food nor musette bag at the Brest control and carried only three water bottles. |
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When it became known that both ships had berthed in Brest, Bomber Command made them a primary target following an order from Winston Churchill. |
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In France special prison bagnios were constructed in the eighteenth century at Toulon, Brest, Rochefort, and Lorient. |
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Le Goulet is the entrance to the sheltered harbour of Brest. |
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It would seem reasonable for an Anglo-French alliance to agree that no fleets will be built in Brest and Liverpool without the other's prior agreement. |
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Writer-director Brest worked at Bronx State Hospital during college where he observed the behaviors of various patients. |
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Morale of the crews was high, no sabotage had occurred at Brest and the crews went ashore freely. |
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The airline Finistair operates flights on Cessna 208 planes from Brest Bretagne Airport. |
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He believed that trying to bring warships out of the blockaded port at Brest would cause unnecessary delays, and could be disastrous. |
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The French decided to launch the invasion force entirely from Le Havre, a large harbour some distance from the blockading British fleet at Brest. |
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The invasion plan received a crippling blow in November 1759, when the French Brest Squadron was heavily defeated at the Battle of Quiberon Bay. |
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With the Brest fleet destroyed at Quiberon Bay, they were now unable to escort the French troops across the Channel. |
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During 1759, the British, under Hawke, maintained a close blockade on the French coast in the vicinity of Brest. |
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The main French fleets were at Brest in Brittany and at Toulon on the Mediterranean coast. |
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There he received orders from Napoleon to return to Brest according to the main plan. |
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When Villeneuve set sail from Ferrol on 10 August, he was under orders from Napoleon to sail northward toward Brest. |
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The evacuation was made more difficult by a lack of information from Brest, St Nazaire and Nantes. |
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The attack on Brest took place in daylight on 24 July with a loss of 13 bombers and La Pallice was bombed again by 15 Handley Page Halifaxes. |
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By 9 February, the ships had completed their trials in Brest roads and the sortie was set for 11 February. |
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In April 1941, the Royal Navy and the RAF devised Operation Fuller, a plan for combined operations against the ships in Brest should they sortie. |
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Bomber Command had been alerted that the Brest Group was near Dover and warned the groups to be ready. |
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The seven Beauforts at Thorney Island were closest to the Brest Group when it was sighted. |
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Hawke took command of the blockading fleet off Brest and extended the blockade of the French coast from Dunkirk to Marseilles. |
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On 18 May 2013, Beckham was made captain in his final home game against Brest. |
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Howard landed forces near Brest, but made no headway against the town and was by now getting low on supplies. |
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During the war the British had instituted a new system of blockade, by which they penned in the main French fleets at anchor in Brest and Toulon. |
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Le Menn runs the metrology-chemistry laboratory of the French Naval Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service in Brest. |
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Hitler noted that the ships at Brest had diverted British bombing from Germany but that the advantage would end as soon as the ships were sufficiently damaged. |
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Brittany is on two major TGV lines, one linking Paris to Nantes and Le Croisic, on the south coast, and another linking Paris to Rennes and Brest. |
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Since then, during glacial times, the river mouth was located offshore of Brest, France and rivers, like the River Thames and the Seine, became tributaries to the Rhine. |
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In south Brittany the Route nationale 165 performs a similar role along the south coast providing connections between Nantes, Vannes, Lorient, Quimper and Brest. |
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By 1913 the French and British had plans in place for joint naval action against Germany, and France moved its Atlantic fleet from Brest to Toulon, replacing British ships. |
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Tourville was to bring the French fleet up from Brest and collect the transports and the troops, then fight off the English fleet and land the army in England. |
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Nesmond, with the remaining two ships Monarque and Aimable, passed through the Strait of Dover, went north around Britain and finally arrived safely at Brest. |
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Line South East, part of Operation Fuller, ran past Ushant to the vicinity of Jersey, to find a sortie from Brest which had turned up the Channel. |
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The British shared conventional wisdom that any invasion would have to involve the Brest fleet, but kept a close watch on all potential departure points. |
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Brest and Douarnenez both organise large tall ship meetings. |
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The Museums of Fine Arts of Brest and Quimper offer similar collections, with large quantities of French painting together with the works of some Italian and Dutch artists. |
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Conflans had sailed from Brest on 15 November heading a hundred miles down the coast to Quiberon Bay, where the invasion army was now waiting to board his transports. |
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The destroyers sailed south to intercept the Brest Group but it steamed much faster than expected and to catch up, Pizey took the destroyers over a German minefield. |
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Brittany is the second French region for telecommunication and the fifth for electronics, two activities mainly developed in Rennes, Lannion and Brest. |
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In the meantime, a small squadron from the West Indies joined Conflans in Brest and, when an easterly wind came on the 14th, Conflans slipped out. |
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The main strategic idea involved the French Navy escaping from the British blockades of Toulon and Brest and threatening to attack the West Indies. |
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On 11 April, Howard's force arrived off Brest only to see a small enemy force join with the larger force in the safety of Brest harbour and its fortifications. |
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The tardiness of Bligh in moving his forces allowed a French force of 10,000 from Brest to catch up with him and open fire on the reembarkation troops. |
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Nantes and St Nazaire, the most important ports, were covered by 1 Squadron, 73 Squadron and 242 Squadron, with a small detachment covering Brest. |
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The French planned to invade the British Isles during 1759 by accumulating troops near the mouth of the Loire and concentrating their Brest and Toulon fleets. |
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Tensions increased when Commonwealth policies turned from relative tolerance to suppression of the Eastern Orthodox church after the Union of Brest. |
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At the start of the month, the Brest Group was made the Bomber Command priority again and from 11 December, bombing and minelaying took place nightly. |
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Gneisenau was damaged on the evening of 6 January and between 10 December and 20 January 1942, 37 percent of Bomber Command sorties were flown against the ships at Brest. |
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