Posts in The Copybook tagged ‘France’
© Jean Housen, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC-BY-SA 4.0.
A faithful feline bides his time until two criminals are brought to justice.
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Richard I thought a veteran Crusader and conqueror of Saladin could handle a few French peasants.
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Admiral Lord Howe battered a French fleet far out in the Atlantic, and helped prevent the spread of bloody revolution.
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The Nazi-collaborating Vichy government in France paid Rugby League the supreme compliment: they banned it.
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A young French cavalry soldier took a tremendous risk to rescue a drowning man.
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The soldier went quite deliberately into a burning room full of gunpowder and ammunition.