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Moselle was liberated by the American army in 1944 and returned to France, within the same frontiers that it had in 1919.
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Moselle and was
The child was born at Treveri, near the village of Ambitarvium, just before the junction of the Moselle River and the Rhine River ( modern Koblenz Germany ).
Marlborough, realising the only way to ignore Dutch wishes was by the use of secrecy and guile, set out to deceive his Dutch allies by pretending to simply move his troops to the Moselle – a plan approved of by The Hague – but once there, he would slip the Dutch leash and link up with Austrian forces in southern Germany.
With Marshal Villars sitting strong on the Moselle, the Allied commander – whose supplies had by now become critical – was forced to call off his campaign on 16 June.
The Anglo-Dutch forces gained minor compensation for the failed Moselle campaign with the success at Elixheim and the crossing of the Lines of Brabant in the Spanish Netherlands ( Huy was also retaken on 11 July ), but a chance to bring the French to a decisive engagement had eluded Marlborough.
However, it seems that the Duke ’ s favoured scheme was to return to the Moselle valley ( where Marshal Marsin had recently taken command of French forces ) and once more attempt an advance into the heart of France.
Karl's father, Herschel Marx, was middle-class and relatively wealthy: the family owned a number of Moselle vineyards ; he converted from Judaism to the Protestant Christian denomination of Lutheranism prior to his son's birth, taking on the German forename of Heinrich over Herschel.
While Marlborough's attempted invasion of France down the Moselle came to nought, and although he managed to wrong-foot Villeroi and break through the Lines of Brabant, he was unable to bring the French commander to battle.
Upper Lorraine was first denominated as the Duchy of the Moselle, both in charters and narrative sources, and its duke was the dux Mosellanorum.
After the duchy of the Moselle came into the possession of René of Anjou the name " Duchy of Lorraine " was adopted again, only retrospectively called " Upper Lorraine ".
The city was built in a place where many branches of the Moselle river creates several islands, which are encompassed within the urban planning.
In Gallo-Roman religion, Ancamna was a goddess worshipped particularly in the valley of the Moselle River.
She was particularly worshipped by the Treveri in the Moselle Valley.
After the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, almost all of the Moselle department, along with Alsace and portions of the Meurthe and Vosges departments, was returned to the German Empire by the Treaty of Frankfurt on the ground that the population in those areas spoke German dialects.
Only one-fifth of Moselle ( arrondissement of Briey in the extreme west of the department ) was spared annexation by Bismarck, as it was a French-speaking area.
The remaining area of Briey was merged with the truncated Meurthe department to create the new Meurthe-et-Moselle department ( a new name chosen on purpose to remind people of the lost Moselle department ) with its préfecture at Nancy.
However, it was not decided to recreate the old departments of Meurthe and Moselle by reverting to the old department borders of before 1871.
Instead, Meurthe-et-Moselle was left untouched, and the four-fifths of Moselle that had been annexed by Germany in 1871 were merged with the one-third of Meurthe also annexed in 1871 to create a new department of Moselle.
Thus, the Moselle department was reborn, but its borders were quite different from those before 1871.
During World War II Moselle was again stripped from France and became part of the Gau-Westmark according to the armistice of June 22, 1940.
Meurthe-et-Moselle was created in 1871 at the end of the Franco-Prussian War from the parts of the former departments of Moselle and Meurthe which remained French territory.
The current boundary between Meurthe-et-Moselle and Moselle was the border between France and Germany from 1871 to 1919 and again between 1940 and 1944.
Moselle and by
The Duke of Marlborough had intended the 1705 campaign – an invasion of France through the Moselle valley – to complete the work of Blenheim and persuade King Louis XIV to make peace, but the plan had been thwarted by both friend and foe alike.
The impression produced by Eck upon his auditors during that momentous time may be best learned from the account of the humanist Peter of Moselle, who described him as tall, stout, and squarely built.
* Hughes, S. P. ( 2005 ) " Bilingualism in North-East France with specific reference to Rhenish Franconian spoken by Moselle Cross-border ( or frontier ) workers.
With creation of the departments by the Estates-General of 1789, Metz became the capital of the Department of Moselle.
The Italians were particularly numerous in the Moselle industrial area, which had been annexed by Adolf Hitler, where they played a determining role in the creation of the département's main resistance organisation, Groupe Mario.
In 1793, the foreign enclaves of Manderen, Lixing-lès-Rouhling, Momerstroff, and Créhange ( Kriechingen ), all possessions of princes of the German Holy Roman Empire, were annexed by France and incorporated into the Moselle département.
Thus, by the end of 1815, the Moselle department had finally the limits that it would keep until 1871.
Moselle is part of the current region of Lorraine and is surrounded by the French departments of Meurthe-et-Moselle and Bas-Rhin, as well as Germany ( states of Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate ) and Luxembourg in the north.
Meurthe-et-Moselle is part of the region of Lorraine and is surrounded ( counter-clockwise ) by the departments of Meuse, Vosges, Bas-Rhin, and Moselle ; and by the nations of Luxembourg and Belgium.
To this end, Marlborough moved his English troops to the Moselle ( a plan approved of by The Hague ), but once there he planned to slip the Dutch leash and march south to link up with Austrian forces in southern Germany.
The planned invasion of France via the Moselle valley was frustrated by friend and foe alike, forcing the Duke to withdraw back towards the Low Countries.
The Moselle was celebrated in Mosella, a Latin poem by Ausonius ( 4th century ).
A Liberty pole erected at the Moselle during the French Revolution, water color by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Goethe, 1793
Moselle and American
In early November the 4th Division relieved an African American regiment near Metz, and was preparing to chase German defenders down the Moselle River, with Middleton to lead the attack.
At Toul, there was seemingly more success as a loop of the Moselle was crossed by the American 319th Infantry, but it was short-lived as the German defenders of the 3rd Parachute Replacement Regiment simply fell back until they reached a defensive line flanked by two forts from which they were able to stall further advances.
Moselle and army
If he intended an attack along the Moselle the Duke must now turn west, but, instead, the following day the army crossed to the right bank of the Rhine, ( pausing to add 5, 000 waiting Hanoverians and Prussians ).
* The Alamanni and the Franks defeat the Roman army, taking control of 40 towns between the Moselle and the Rhine.
Luxembourg's army consisted of 34 battalions and 94 squadrons ; if necessary he could call upon support from Marshal Boufflers ’ forces on the Moselle.
In co-operation with Hoche and the army of the Moselle, Pichegru, as Général de division and in command of the army of the Rhine, had to reconquer Alsace and to reorganize the defeated troops of the French Republic.
Transferred to the army on the Moselle, Kellermann was accused by General Custine of neglecting to support his operations on the Rhine ; but he was acquitted at the bar of the National Convention in Paris, and placed at the head of the army of the Alps and of Italy, in which position he showed himself a careful commander and excellent administrator.
The siege had cost the Allies a great deal in men and resources, and had pinned down William III's army through the whole summer campaign ; but the recapture of Namur, together with the earlier prize of Huy, had restored the Allied position on the Meuse, and had secured communications between their armies in the Spanish Netherlands and those on the Moselle and Rhine.
His next command was in Lorraine, but even the Moselle valley had suffered so much from the ravages of war that his army perished of want.
Moltke's plan was that the three armies, while advancing, should make a right wheel, so that the first army on the right would reach the bank of the Moselle opposite Metz, while the second and third armies should push forward, the third army to defeat the French force near Strasbourg, and the second to strike the Moselle near Pont-à-Mousson.
He commanded the French army on the Moselle, which opened the War of the Grand Alliance with a series of victories.
On 7 March 1735, ahead of Granville's marriage on 15 March 1735 at Mannheim to Jeanne Thérèse du Han, Comtesse de Martigny ( 30 October 1707 – 7 May 1748 ), he was created a Chambellan in the Elector's army and raised to the title of Comte de Morhange in the Moselle region.
On 6 August he led the I army south from his position on the Moselle and moved straight toward the town of Spicheren, cutting off Prince Frederick Charles from his forward cavalry units in the process.
He joined the army in 1792, and served with the armies of the North, of the Sambre et Meuse and Rhine et Moselle in the various campaigns of the French Revolution.
Leading the I army south from his position on the Moselle.
He served on several missions, including to the Departments of Meurthe, Vosges and Haute-Saône ( 23 August 1793-3 November 1793 ) which was in support of the levée en masse, to the army of the Rhine ( 13 September 1793-3 November 1793 ), and again over winter 1793-1794 to establish revolutionary government in Meuse and Moselle.
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