* The Second World War: Dieppe, L ' Escaut, Bourgebus Ridge, Saint-André-sur-Orne, Verrières Ridge — Tilly-la-Campagne, Falaise, Falaise Road, The Liaison, Forêt de la Londe, Dunkirk 1944, Antwerp-Turnhout Canal, The Scheldt, Woensdrecht, South Beveland, The Rhineland, The Hochwald, Xanten, The Rhine, Groningen, Oldenburg, North-West Europe 1942 ' 44-45

Possession of Caen and its surroundings — desirable for open terrain that would permit maneuver warfare — would also give Second Army a suitable staging area for a push south to capture Falaise, which could be used as the pivot for a swing right to advance on Argentan and then towards the Touques River.

Falaise Road — Operations Tractable and Totalize were conducted in the period 7 – 16 August 1944, and The Calgary Highlanders were involved in fighting along the road to Falaise during this period.

Clair Tison — Located near the Falaise Road, this surprise attack by The Calgary Highlanders on the night of 12 – 13 August 1944 forced a German abandonment of positions during the Falaise Road fighting, and was executed with very few casualties.

* Louise Le Bailly de La Falaise ( 1894 — 1910 )

* Alain Le Bailly de La Falaise, Ecuyer ( 1905 — 1977 ).

* Richard Le Bailly de La Falaise, Ecuyer ( 1910 — died at Buchenwald in 1945 )

The Treaty of Falaise remained in force for the next fifteen years.

2nd Division saw significant action from 20 July – 21 August in the battles for Caen and Falaise.

Constance Bennett and her husband Henri de la Falaise produced two feature length documentaries, Legong: Dance of the Virgins ( 1935 ) filmed in Bali, and Kilou the Killer Tiger ( 1936 ) filmed in Indochina.

Town after town surrendered: in 1141, Verneuil, Nonancourt, Lisieux, Falaise ; in 1142, Mortain, Saint-Hilaire, Pontorson ; in 1143, Avranches, Saint-Lô, Cérences, Coutances, Cherbourg ; in the beginning of 1144 he entered Rouen, and on 19 January received the ducal crown in its cathedral.

Falaise was largely restored after the war.

Although badly mauled after escaping the Falaise Pocket, the Korps was made up of seasoned veterans and made available significantly more forces to the Germans than the allies had been led to expect.

King William I formed a deer park to the south-west of the castle, but after his capture by the English in 1174 he was forced to surrender several castles, including Stirling and Edinburgh, under the Treaty of Falaise.

The same day, the 1st Canadian Army attacked the weakened German positions south of Caen in Operation Totalize and threatened to break through to Falaise, although this attack stalled after two days.

An early reference to the de Luci family refers to the render by Henry I of the Lordship of Dice, Norfolk to Richard de Luci, Governor of Falaise, Normandy, after defending it with great valour and heroic conduct when besieged by Geoffrey, Earl of Anjou.

* Scotland was an independent Kingdom, but after the disastrous campaign led by William the Lion, English garrisons were established in the castles of Edinburgh, Roxburgh, Jedburgh and Berwick in southern Scotland as defined in the Treaty of Falaise.

In many publications it has been said that the ( division ) only had a few hundred men after the end of the Falaise battle on 22 August.

Descendants of that couple use the surname " Le Bailly de La Falaise ", and after the act of succession, the family's younger sons have called themselves Count de La Falaise.

They married in Paris, France, on January 28, 1925, after meeting on the set of the Swanson film Madame Sans-Gêne, on which La Falaise was working as a translator.

) Swanson conceived a child with La Falaise but had an abortion because, as The New York Times noted, in 2004, " if she had given birth seven months after her marriage, her career would have been ruined ".

The single player is modeled after the Normandy breakout, where the British, Canadian, Polish, American and French Resistance forces pushed into the village of Chambois, France, also known as the Falaise Gap.

The northern shoulder of the " Falaise Gap " was the scene of much fighting, and the battle honour covers all the fighting from the eventual breakout at Verrières and Bourguébus ridges, to the final collapse of German resistance on 16 August 1944.

* World War II-Dieppe ; Bourguebus Ridge ; St. Andre-sur-Orne ; Verrières Ridge-Tilly-la-Campagne ; Falaise ; Falaise Road ; Clair Tizon ; Dunkirk 1944 ; Antwerp-Turnhout Canal ; The Scheldt ; Woensdrecht ; South Beveland ; The Rhineland ; The Reichswald ; Goch-Calcar Road ; The Hochwald ; Xanten ; Twente Canal ; Groningen ; Oldenburg ; North-West Europe, 1942, 1944-45.

** The Second World War: Defence of Arras, Ypres-Comines Canal, Dunkirk 1940, Somme 1940, St. Valery-en-Caux, Saar, Breville, Odon, Fontenay le Pesnil, Defence of Rauray, Caen, Falaise, Falaise Road, La Vie Crossing, Le Havre, Lower Maas, Venlo Pocket, Ourthe, Rhineland, Reichswald, Goch, Rhine, North-West Europe 1940 ' 44-45, Barkasan, British Somaliland 1940, Tobruk 1941, Tobruk Sortie, El Alamein, Advance on Tripoli, Medenine, Zemlet el Lebene, Mareth, Akarit, Wadi Akarit East, Djebel Roumana, Medjez Plain, Si Mediene, Tunis, North Africa 1941-43, Landing in Sicily, Vizzini, Sferro, Gerbini, Adrano, Sferro Hills, Sicily 1943, Cassino II, Liri Valley, Advance to Florence, Monte Scalari, Casa Fortis, Rimini Line, Casa Fabbri Ridge, Savio Bridgehead, Italy 1944-45, Athens, Greece 1944-45, Crete, Heraklion, Middle East 1941, Chindits 1944, Burma 1944

** The Second World War: Defence of Arras, Ypres-Comines Canal, Dunkirk 1940, Somme 1940, St. Valery-en-Caux, Saar, Breville, Odon, Fontenay le Pesnil, Defence of Rauray, Caen, Falaise, Falaise Road, La Vie Crossing, Le Havre, Lower Maas, Venlo Pocket, Ourthe, Rhineland, Reichswald, Goch, Rhine, North-West Europe 1940 ' 44-45, Barkasan, British Somaliland 1940, Tobruk 1941, Tobruk Sortie, El Alamein, Advance on Tripoli, Medenine, Zemlet el Lebene, Mareth, Akarit, Wadi Akarit East, Djebel Roumana, Medjez Plain, Si Mediene, Tunis, North Africa 1941-43, Landing in Sicily, Vizzini, Sferro, Gerbini, Adrano, Sferro Hills, Sicily 1943, Cassino II, Liri Valley, Advance to Florence, Monte Scalari, Casa Fortis, Rimini Line, Casa Fabbri Ridge, Savio Bridgehead, Italy 1944-45, Athens, Greece 1944-45, Crete, Heraklion, Middle East 1941, Chindits 1944, Burma 1944

* The Second World War: Defence of Escaut, Calais 1940, Cassel, Ypres-Comines Canal, Normandy Landing, Pegasus Bridge, Villers Bocage, Odon, Caen, Esquay, Bourguebus Ridge, Mont Pincon, Le Perier Ridge, Falaise, Antwerp, Hechtel, Nederrijn, Lower Maas, Roer, Ourthe, Rhineland, Reichswald, Kleve, Goch, Hochwald, Rhine, Ibbenbueren, Dreirwalde, Leese, Aller, North-West Europe 1940, 44-45, Egyptian Frontier 1940, Sidi Barrani, Beda Fomm, Mersa el Brega, Agedabia, Derna Aerodrome, Tobruk 1941, Sidi Rezegh 1941, Chor es Sufan, Saunnu, Gazala, Bir Hacheim, Knightsbridge, Defence of Alamein Line, Ruweisat, Fuka Airfield, Alam el Halfa, El Alamein, Capture of Haifaya Pass, Nofilia, Tebaga Gap, Enfidaville, Medjez el Bab, Kasserine, Thala, Fondouk, Fondouk Pass, El Kourzia, Djebel Kournine, Agroub el Megas, Tunis, Hamman Lif, North Africa 1940-43, Sangro, Salerno, Santa Lucia, Salerno Hills, Cardito, Teano, Monte Camino, Garigliano Crossing, Damiano, Anzio, Cassino II, Liri Valley, Melfa Crossing, Monte Rotondo, Capture of Perugia, Monte Malbe, Arezzo, Advance to Florence, Gothic Line, Coriano, Gemmano Ridge, Lamone Crossing, Orsara, Tossignano, Argenta Gap, Fossa Cembalina, Italy 1943-45, Veve, Greece 1941, 44, 45, Crete, Middle East 1941, Arakan Beaches, Tamandu, Burma 1943-44.

** Defence of Escaut, Dunkirk 1940, Normandy Landing, Odon, Caen, Bourgebus Ridge, Troarn, Falaise, Nederrijn, Lower Maas, Venraij, Ourthe, Rhineland, Reichswald, Weeze, Hochwald, Rhine, Ibbenburen, Aller, Bremen, North West Europe 1940, 44-45, Banana Ridge, Djebel Kess Kiss, Medjez Plain, Gueriat El Atach Ridge, Gab Gab Gap, Djebel Bou Aoukaz 1943, North Africa 1943, Anzio, Rome, Fiesole, Gothic Line, Monte Gameraldi, Monte Ceco, Monte Grand, Italy 1944-45, Madagascar, Middle East 1942, Johore, Batu Pahat, Singapore Island, Malaya 1941-42, North Arakan, Mayu Tunnels, Pinwe, Meiktila, Nyaungu Bridgehead, Letse, Irrawaddy, Burma 1943-45.

** Mons ; Retreat from Mons ; Marne 1914, 18 ; Aisne 1914, 18 ; Messines 1914, 17, 18 ; Ypres 1914, 15, 17, 18 ; Neuve Chapelle ; Loos ; Somme 1916, 18 ; Arras 1917, 18 ; Scarpe 1917, 18 ; Cambrai 1917, 18 ; Lys ; Hindenburg Line ; Vittorio Veneto ; Macedonia 1915-18 ; Sari Bair ; Gallipoli 1915-16 ; Megiddo ; Kut al Amara 1917 ; Baghdad ; Kilimanjaro ; Dunkirk ; Normandy Landing ; Falaise ; Arnhem 1944 ; Lower Maas ; Ourthe ; Reichswald ; Defence of Habbaniya ; Tobruk 1941 ; Madagascar ; Gueriat el Atach Ridge ; Landing in Sicily ; Anzio ; Cassino II ; Malta 1940-42 ; Singapore Island ; Chindits 1943 ; North Arakan ; Chindits 1944 ; Imphal ; Kohima ; Nyaungu Bridgehead ; Burma 1943-45

* The Second World War: Calais 1940, Villers Bocage, Odon, Bourguébus Ridge, Mont Pincon, Le Perier Ridge, Falaise, Antwerp, Hechtel, Nederrijn, Lower Maas, Roer, Leese, Aller, North-West Europe 1940 ' 44-45, Egyptian Frontier 1940, Beda Fomm, Mersa el Brega, Agedabia, Derna Aerodrome, Tobruk 1941, Sidi Rezegh 1941, Chor es Sufan, Saunnu, Gazala, Knightsbridge, Defence of Alamein Line, Ruweisat, Alam el Halfa, El Alamein, Tebaga Gap, Medjez el Bab, Kassarine, Thala, Fondouk, Fondouk Pass, El Kourzia, Djebel Kournine, Tunis, Hammam Lif, North Africa 1940-43, Cardito, Cassino II, Liri Valley, Melfa Crossing, Monte Rotondo, Capture of Perugia, Monte Malbe, Arezzo, Advance to Florence, Gothic Line, Orsara, Tossigniano, Argenta Gap, Fossa Sembalina, Italy 1943-45

* Second World War: Dunkirk 1940, Normandy Landing, Odon, Bourguébus Ridge, Troarn, Falaise, Venraij, Rhineland, Hochwald, Bremen, North-West Europe 1940 ' 44-45, Madagascar, Middle East 1942, North Arakan, Mayu Tunnels, Kohima, Meiktila, Nyaungu Bridgehead, Letse, Irrawaddy, Sittang 1945, Burma 1943-45

* The Second World War: Defence of Escaut, Wormhoudt, Ypres-Comines Canal, Normandy Landing, Caen, Bourguébus Ridge, Mont Pincon, Falaise, Venraij, Rhineland, Lingen, Brinkum, Bremen, North-West Europe 1940 ' 44-45, Burma 1945

Defence of Canada – 1812 – 1815, Mount Sorrel, Somme 1916, Flers-Courcelette, Ancre Heights, Arras 1917 – 1918, Vimy 1917, Hill 70, Ypres 1917, Passchendale, Amiens, Scarpe 1918, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, Cambrai 1918, Valenciennes, Sambre, France and Flanders 1915 – 1918, Normandy Landing, Authie, Caen, The Orne, Bourguebus Ridge, Faubourg de Vaucelles, Saint-André-sur-Orne, Falaise, Falaise Road, Clair Tizon, The Laison, Antwerp-Tournout, The Scheldt, The Lower Maas, The Rhineland, The Hochwald, Xanten, The Rhine, Emmerich-Hoch Elten, Zutphen, Deventer, North-West Europe 1944-1945, Honorary Distinction Hong Kong 1941

The most notable attempt to use deep penetration operations in Normandy was at Mortain, which exacerbated the German position in the already-forming Falaise Pocket and assisted in the ultimate destruction of German forces in Normandy.

Henry and his army were marching south from Barfleur on their way to Domfront and Robert was marching with his army from Falaise on their way to Mortain.

Arthur had initially been imprisoned at Falaise and was then moved to Rouen.

" He was unhorsed and captured by Henry's troops led by Ranulf de Glanvill and taken in chains to Newcastle, then Northampton, and then transferred to Falaise in Normandy.

Château de Falaise in Falaise, Calvados | Falaise, Lower Normandy, France ; William was born in an earlier building here.

William was born in 1027 or 1028 at Falaise, Normandy, probably towards the end of the latter year.

His mother, Herleva, was the daughter of Fulbert of Falaise ; Fulbert may have been a tanner or embalmer.

Robert Fitzhamon was wounded at Falaise in Normandy in 1105 and died two years later, but his son-in-law, Robert FitzRoy, the natural son of Henry I who was made Earl of Gloucester, continued to fund the building work.

He was forced to sign the Treaty of Falaise to secure his release, in return for surrendering Edinburgh Castle, along with the castles of Berwick, Roxburgh and Stirling, to the English King, Henry II.

** The Falaise pocket was the site of a battle in the Second World War

He was also appointed Constable of Dover Castle, and also given charge of Falaise, in Normandy.

In any case de Burgh retained the king's trust, and in 1203 was given charge of the great castles at Falaise in Normandy and Chinon, in Touraine.

The Château de Falaise ( 12th-13th century ), which overlooks the town from a high crag (), was formerly the seat of the Dukes of Normandy.

Also, the Treaty of Falaise was signed at the castle in December 1174 between the captive William I, King of Scots, and the King of England Henry II Plantagenet.

Two-thirds of Falaise was destroyed by Allied bombing before the town was taken by a combined force of Canadian and Polish troops.

Robert FitzHamon ( born c. 1045-1055, d. March 1107 Falaise, Normandy ) was the son of Haimo the Sheriff of Kent and grandson of Haimo Dentatus (' The Toothy ', i. e., probably buck-toothed ).

Captured by John's barons, Arthur was imprisoned at Falaise in Normandy, guarded by Hubert de Burgh.

He had strongly-developed literary and artistic tastes, was an enthusiastic musician ( even composing a little ), and wrote both poetry and novels ( La Grande Falaise, 1785 – 1793, Le Docteur Egra in 1873 ); but he was not a socialite.