Bapaume has been called the Seuil de Bapaume (Bapaume threshold) due to its position as a crossing point between Artois and the Flanders plain on one side, and the Somme valley and the Paris Basin on the other. From the mid-11th century there was a Bapaume toll which was revised in 1202 and again in 1442. Many roads pass through Bapaume, both old roads between the …

Operation Michael was a major German military offensive during the First World War that began the German Spring Offensive on 21 March 1918. It was launched from the Hindenburg Line, in the vicinity of Saint-Quentin, France.Its goal was to break through the Allied (Entente) lines and advance in a north-westerly direction to seize the Channel Ports, which supplied the British …

The Hindenburg Line (German: Siegfriedstellung, Siegfried Position) was a German defensive position built during the winter of 1916–1917 on the Western Front during the First World War.The line ran from Arras to Laffaux, near Soissons on the Aisne.In 1916, the Battle of Verdun and the Battle of the Somme left the German western armies (Westheer) exhausted and on the …

Bapaume est une commune française située dans le département du Pas-de-Calais en région Hauts-de-France.. Ses habitants sont appelés les Bapalmois.. La commune est le siège de la communauté de communes du Sud-Artois qui regroupe 64 communes et compte 27 349 habitants en 2018.. Sur le plan administratif, elle fait partie de l'arrondissement d'Arras ; et sur …

Le territoire de la commune est situé dans le bassin Artois-Picardie.. La commune est traversée par la Scarpe canalisée, cours d'eau d'une longueur de 67 km, qui prend sa source dans la commune d'Arras et se jette dans L'Escaut canalisée au niveau de la commune de Mortagne-du-Nord dans le département du Nord [1].. Urbanisme Typologie. Saint-Laurent-Blangy est une …

Hervé Peugnet [1] naît dans le Nord à Bapaume le 30 mai 1957. Il commence à Paris des études d'arts plastiques et d'histoire de l'art. Changeant d'orientation, il approche la coiffure et les chapeaux, puis rencontre Karl Lagerfeld et travaille un temps avec lui chez Fendi [28], et Chanel [29] pour la conception de maillots de bain. Il ...

Liste des communes. Le tableau suivant donne la liste des communes, en précisant leur code Insee, leur code postal principal, leur arrondissement, leur canton, leur intercommunalité, leur superficie, leur population et leur densité, d'après les chiffres de l'Insee issus du recensement 2019 [Note 1], [2].

The Battle of Arras took place on 21 May 1940, during the Battle of France in the Second World War.Following the German invasion of the Low Countries on 10 May, French and British forces advanced into Belgium. The German campaign plan Fall Gelb (Case Yellow) had evolved into a decoy operation in the Netherlands and Belgium, with the main effort through the Ardennes.

The Battle of Cambrai, 1918 (also known as the Second Battle of Cambrai) was a battle between troops of the British First, Third and Fourth Armies and German Empire forces during the Hundred Days Offensive of the First World War.The battle took place in and around the French city of Cambrai, between 8 and 10 October 1918.The battle incorporated many of the newer …

The last CGL locomotive to be scrapped was the former Nord 3.713 (née Ceinture 63) which was scrapped at Bapaume in 1960. Description. The boiler was based on that used on the "Revolvers" (Nord 2.231 to 2.305 series) and had a Belpaire firebox. The dome was mounted on the first ring, and a sandbox was mounted on the second.