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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of west-central France at the mouth of the Loire River west of Nantes. Built on the ruins of a Gallo-Roman town, it was an important naval base during both world wars.
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In late March 1942, Mr. Burn was serving as an officer in a commando unit taking part in Operation Chariot, an amphibious attack on Saint-Nazaire, one of the largest ports on France's Atlantic coast.
Journalist 'Micky' Burn, 97, dies; renounced Nazism to become British commando 2010
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While he was being taken prisoner on the shores of Saint-Nazaire, Mr. Burn was filmed surrendering to the Germans.
Journalist 'Micky' Burn, 97, dies; renounced Nazism to become British commando 2010
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It would be a godsend for the Saint-Nazaire shipyard, which builds the Mistral-class ships: The owner of the yard, South Korean-controlled shipbuilder STX Europe AS, announced last year it was cutting 351 jobs there due to a lack of orders.
Saakashvili Slams French Plan to Sell Warship to Russia Guy Chazan 2010
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It would be a godsend for the Saint-Nazaire shipyard, which builds the Mistral-class ships: The owner of the yard, South Korean-controlled shipbuilder STX Europe AS, announced last year it was cutting 351 jobs there due to a lack of orders.
Saakashvili Slams French Plan to Sell Warship to Russia Guy Chazan 2010
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He was wounded by gunfire but made it ashore just as the Campbeltown, disguised as a German vessel and laden with explosives, rammed into the docks at Saint-Nazaire.
Journalist 'Micky' Burn, 97, dies; renounced Nazism to become British commando 2010
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The strike also blocked the Atlantic coast port at Saint-Nazaire, including vessels that feed into the nearby Total refinery.
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The strike also blocked the Atlantic coast port at Saint-Nazaire, including vessels that feed into the nearby Total refinery.
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There are several well-established industrial and agricultural businesses: Cholet exports designer clothes to the world, Saint-Nazaire builds transatlantic liners and cruise ships, Nantes has booming IT and financial services fields, the region supplies produce to all of France, and some of the vintners have had exports increase by 340% due to increased demand from emerging economies, such as China.
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In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the center of commerce and industry on that southern coast of Brittany shifted to the modern ports of Lorient and Saint-Nazaire.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the center of commerce and industry on that southern coast of Brittany shifted to the modern ports of Lorient and Saint-Nazaire.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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