maginot line in English

noun
1
a line of defensive fortifications constructed by the French along their eastern border, extending from Switzerland to Luxembourg, between 1929 and 1936. In World War II, although the defenses held, the Germans outflanked them, going through Belgium to conquer France.

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1. Second, the forts of France's Maginot Line were not tactically outflanked, as myth has it.

2. Radio field operations at the Granges de la Brasque, old military radio and telegraphy outpost part of the Maginot line (1930s)

3. 30: French forces on the French-German border fall back to the Maginot Line in anticipation of a German invasion.

4. Built in 1931, the Casemate was part of an extension of the Maginot Line fortifications along France's border with Germany

5. This book provides a concise and informative treatment of the Maginot Line[Sentencedict], from North-East France to the Mediterranean.

6. Historically, immovable objects are easy to out maneuver and real long-term stubbornness is the Maginot Line of negotiating styles.

7. 20: The "Phoney War": French troops settle in the Maginot line's dormitories and tunnels; the British build new fortifications along the "gap" between the Maginot line and the Channel.

8. They threatened in four directions: to the north, to attack the allied main force directly; to the west, to cut it off; to the south, to occupy Paris and even to the east, to move behind the Maginot Line.

9. The missions include blowing up a fuel depot on the Maginot Line, assassination of a colonel in a cathedral in Paris, stealing documents and marking a sub pen for bombers in Hamburg during Operation Gomorrah, and finding three secret agents in Warsaw.

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