Search results for "Alsace" - New World Encyclopedia
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- by a sniper in Piedmont Valley, France (near Alsace-Lorraine) during World War II. ==Main Street and Babbitt== After traveling throughout the ...15 KB (2,252 words) - 22:29, 29 January 2023
- 1764. In 1767, he worked on a geological survey of Alsace-Lorraine. He was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences, France's most elite ...17 KB (2,470 words) - 06:42, 31 July 2023
- plan, Plan XVII, was intended to capture Alsace-Lorraine following the outbreak ... The Army of Alsace captured Mulhouse but abandoned it to reinforce ...57 KB (8,515 words) - 17:19, 4 May 2023
- labor in the fortress of Asperg. He escaped to Alsace, and, after visiting France and England, returned in 1824 to finish his sentence, finally being ...19 KB (2,994 words) - 11:05, 11 April 2024
- the past including an area from Alsace to Tyrol—until it was handed over to the Austrian House of Habsburg in 1490. Shortly after that the university ...21 KB (2,957 words) - 05:02, 17 June 2023
- Simon Marrix), had come from French-speaking Alsace. The brothers were talented musically from an early age. Harpo, especially, could play nearly any ...20 KB (3,216 words) - 15:56, 7 November 2022
- in 1877. Charles Borach, her father, set off from Alsace, France during the late 1870s or early 1880s. When they met in Manhattan, Rose was working at ...19 KB (2,934 words) - 00:41, 25 March 2024
- Prussian War of 1870 to 1871, and the loss of Alsace and Lorraine. The Begum's Millions (Les Cinq cents millions de la Begum) of 1879 gives a highly ...19 KB (2,945 words) - 21:07, 4 October 2022
- to France all Habsburg lands and claims in Alsace and the petty German states ... under Montecuccoli, drove them out of Alsace and back across the Rhine ...62 KB (10,084 words) - 04:10, 4 November 2022
- work of two immigrant makers, Jacob Kirckman (from Alsace) and Burkat Shudi (from Switzerland). The harpsichords by these builders, built for ...23 KB (3,517 words) - 20:32, 29 January 2022
- Eugene Debs was born to parents from Colmar, Alsace, France; he was born on November 5, 1855, and lived most of his life in Terre Haute, Indiana ...21 KB (3,204 words) - 04:16, 23 March 2024
- Juniper is the common name for any of various evergreen, coniferous trees or shrubs comprising the genus Juniperus of the cypress family Cupressaceae ...23 KB (3,212 words) - 21:18, 4 October 2022
- States 7th Army and the French 1st Army in the Alsace region on the west bank of the Rhine. Himmler held this post until early 1945, when Russian advances ...23 KB (3,561 words) - 16:24, 15 May 2024
- In 610 Theudebert had extorted the Duchy of Alsace from Theuderic, beginning a long period of conflict over which kingdom was to have the region ...50 KB (7,783 words) - 08:59, 6 October 2022
- Writing in the midst of the dispute concerning the Alsace-Lorraine region, he declared that the existence of a nation was based on a "daily referendum ...23 KB (3,624 words) - 19:32, 13 February 2024
- captured Landau in September, but the threat to Alsace was relieved by the entrance of the Elector of Bavaria into the war on the French side. Prince ...29 KB (4,611 words) - 22:54, 3 May 2023
- mission and sent to the critical area of Alsace to shore up the disintegrating ... Eulogius Schneider, the powerful leader of Alsace's largest city, Strasbourg ...66 KB (9,644 words) - 18:02, 26 November 2022
- (mostly Huguenots & German Lutherans in Alsace) and Jews still lived in France at the beginning of the Revolution. The Edict of Versailles, ...27 KB (3,836 words) - 09:01, 28 January 2024
- for the return of the disputed territory of Alsace-Lorraine to France. This meant that victory would fulfil one war aim that was very close to the ...28 KB (4,425 words) - 15:12, 21 May 2024
- officially to the U.S. Army, the Ardennes-Alsace Campaign. Several historical ... for its very life on three sides in Alsace. With casualties mounting ...55 KB (8,725 words) - 01:44, 26 September 2023
