Historical place archive

Chambois in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Chambois in Canada. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

1 records1 event labels1 people1944–1944

Historical events in Chambois

1944

August 1944
Siege of Chambois
Henry Duncan Graham Crerar · World War, 2nd

The goal of operation Totalize is to capture the strategically important French town of Falaise, and following that, the smaller towns of Trun and Chambois

Provenance

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