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Clément Le Fort (5 December 1829, Lille – 19 October 1893) was a French surgeon remembered for his work on uterine prolapse, including Le Fort's operation. He...

Operation Dragoon (initially Operation Anvil) was the code name for the landing operation of the Allied invasion of Provence (Southern France) on 15 August...

1783, control of the fort was not transferred until 1796. The river flowing between Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie was called by Le Détroit du Lac Érié by...

editorial in the Maryland Medical Journal endorsing her new application of Le Fort's procedure, and recommending her thesis for publication. The year before...

the climax to each episode of Fort Boyard. The gold is stored here, which is guarded by the fort's tigers. Once the Fort's gong sounds for a second time...

parents. Pierre Le Moyne was born in July 1661 at Fort Ville-Marie (now Montreal), in the French colony of Canada, the third son of Charles le Moyne de Longueuil...

Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western...

Sébastien Le Prestre, seigneur de Vauban, later styling himself as the marquis de Vauban (baptised 15 May 1633 – 30 March 1707), commonly referred to as...

and an entourage, from Le Bourget Airport. Due to capacity constraints at Le Bourget, Air France transferred all of its operations to Orly in 1952. The...

flurry of work to improve the fort's outer defenses. They built, over two days, entrenchments around a rise between the fort and Mount Hope, about three-quarters...

Operation Barkhane (French: Opération Barkhane) was a counterinsurgency operation that started on 1 August 2014 and formally ended on 9 November 2022...

destroyed before its capture in Operation Astonia. The center was rebuilt in a modernist style by Auguste Perret. Le Havre is located 50 kilometres (31...

Operation Dragon Rouge (French: Opération Dragon Rouge, IPA: [ɔpeɾasjõ dɾagõ ɾuʒə], meaning "Operation Red Dragon") was a hostage rescue operation in the...

Operation Valuable was a covert operation conducted during the Cold War by the United Kingdom and the United States in collaboration with other Western...

Operation Torch (8–16 November 1942) was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War. Torch was a compromise operation that met...

fortresses at Le Portel on the Outreau peninsula. An ultimatum calling for prompt surrender was delivered by loudspeakers and the northern fort's garrison...

invasion of Manchuria. The operation had two parts: Operation Olympic and Operation Coronet. Set to begin in November 1945, Operation Olympic was intended to...

by hundreds of officers and troops, principally from Les Compagnies Franches de la Marine. The fort gave the French control of the frontier between New...

C-17 conducts airborne operation with 3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment An aircrew from the 517th Airlift Sq conducts nighttime airdrop of HMMWVs...

French West Indies, with its headquarters in Les Abymes in Guadeloupe. The airline's main base of operations is at Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport...