Corcu Loígde
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Corcu Loígde, Corcu Lóegde, Corcu Laígde, Corcu Laoidhe. People of what is now south-western Co. Cork, who lived between the River Bandon and the sea in the southernmost area in Ireland. The ancient geographer Ptolemy (2nd cent. AD) may have identified the Corcu Loígde with the people he named
Iverni. They were a dominant power in south Munster before the rise of the
Eóganacht. In the pseudo-history
Lebor Gabála [Book of Invasions], they are described as descending from Lugaid son of Dáire and thus from
Ith.
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Myth and propaganda
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 5/21/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...sinking of the French fleet at its Mers-el-Kebir naval base near the Algerian port...comes down on the side of Mersel-Kebir; and yet it is the young men in...unnecessarily in my view. Mers-el-Kebir would easily stand as a separate...
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A bitterness that has lasted nearly 60 years.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 11/3/1999; 700+ words
; NEARLY 60 years on, Mers-el-Kebir is a name which still has the power to stir French passions...commandeered, Sir James Somerville ordered the fleet at Mers-el-Kebir to set sail across the Atlantic to Martinique, France's unoccupied...
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Television: I was still up for Portillo. Unfortunately
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 5/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Battle of Britain and why we have forgotten the battle of Mers El-Kebir, which could arguably be said to have contributed as...to cause a bit of a stir. I also know about Mers-El-Kebir and resent the implication that I do not. But take...
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The Hour that was not our Finest
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 11/25/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...began last night will be touching on the little matter of Mers El Kebir. There are some things of which one party says "We...content with the Marshal and vastly more so because of Mers El Kebir. After events and with proper historical reflection...
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Time travel with the stars; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 11/6/1996; 700+ words
; ...Never trust an Englishman' because of what happened at Mers el-Kebir. Why did the British attack the French there? THERE...nothing underhand about what the Royal Navy did at Mers el-Kebir, though in reporting it to Parliament, Winston Churchill...
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An outrage in Paris; Vandals daub Churchill statue with red paint.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 11/3/1999; 615 words
; ...Churchill's hands with red paint and the words, 'Mers-el-Kebir, 1,300 dead'. The slogan refers to an incident...ever since. Largely because of memories of Mers-el-Kebir, the French were initially reluctant to subscribe...
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Many missed America's pageant theme song.
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 9/27/1998; ; 628 words
; ...negotiation, the British sank the French fleet at Mers-el-Kebir. After that, the Vichy government pitched in with...condemned by France. Nonetheless, the action at Mers-el-Kebir, and France's response, sent Anglo-French relations...
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1966 AND ALL THAT When May Day anarchists defaced a statue of Sir Winston Churchill, the outcry was deafening. Never before, you'd have assumed, had so much offence been caused to so many by so few. Well, hardly ever... Nathalie Curry reports
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/28/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...had its hands daubed with red paint, and the words "Mers el-Kebir, 1,300 dead" scrawled upon it. This referred to...Navy shelled the French fleet in the harbour at Mers el-Kebir, North Africa, in order to prevent it from falling...
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Obituary: Admiral Jacques Guillon
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/27/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...to Britain because of Operation "Catapault". At Mers-el-Kebir, by Oran, in Algeria, on 3 July 1940, the British...as a lieutenant when the British attacked at Mers-el-Kebir. He was lucky because the ship managed to get away...
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Rock that never cracked; answers to correspondents.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 4/11/2005; 700+ words
; ...counterpart to demilitarise his ships. However, at Mers- el-Kebir in French Algeria, the French Admiral Gensoul refused...been ordered to sail from Gibraltar and lay off Mers- el-Kebir. When the deadline to surrender was reached, Somerville...
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Mers-el-Kebir
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Mers-el-Kebir , town, NW Algeria, on the Gulf of Oran. Originally a Roman port...by Germany in June, 1940, the French fleet sought refuge at Mers-el-Kebir, but the British navy sank or damaged most of the ships. The great...
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Mers el-Kebir
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
Mers el-Kebir (World War II) (3 July 1940) Mers el-Kebir was a French naval base in the Gulf of Oran (Algeria), finally evacuated by the French in 1968. Shortly after the French surrender to the Germans in 1940 a British fleet arrived...
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Darlan, François
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
...collaborate with the Germans during the Vichy government was intensified by the British destruction of much of his fleet at Mers el-Kebir in July 1940. As Vice-Premier (1941–2) he was effectively in charge of the Vichy government, when...
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Oran
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Ottoman Empire. French troops captured Oran in 1831 and began to develop it as a naval base, along with nearby Mers-el-Kebir . The building of the port and the construction of railroads linking Oran with the interior made the city the economic...
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