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Sedan, Ardennes Subprefecture and commune in Grand Est, France

Sedan is a commune in the Ardennes department and Grand Est region of north-eastern France. It is also the chef-lieu of the arrondissement of the same name.

Battle of France Nazi German invasion of France in 1940

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Project Plowshare U.S. program examining the peaceful uses of nuclear explosives (1961-77)

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Piper J-3 Cub Family of light aircraft

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Siege of Metz (1870) 1870 battle of the Franco-Prussian War

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Sedan (nuclear test) 1962 underground nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site, Nevada, United States

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Sedan Crater United States historic place

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Aeronca Sedan Type of aircraft

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Sedan Castle Building in Sedan, France

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French war planning 1920–1940

The Dyle Plan or Plan D was the plan of the Commander-in-Chief of the French Army, Général d'armée Maurice Gamelin, to defeat a German attempt to invade France through Belgium. The Dyle (Dijle) river is 86 km (53 mi) long, from Houtain-le-Val through Flemish Brabant and Antwerp; Gamelin intended French, British and Belgian troops to halt a German invasion force along the line of the river. The Franco-Belgian Accord of 1920 had co-ordinated communication and fortification efforts of both armies. The Belgian government let the accord lapse after the German Remilitarization of the Rhineland on 7 March 1936, to adopt a policy of strict neutrality, with the German Army now on the German–Belgian border.

Manstein Plan War plan of the German Army during the Battle of France in 1940

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Yucca Flat Nuclear test region in Nevada

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Battle of Sedan (1940) WWII battle during the Battle of France

The Battle of Sedan or Second Battle of Sedan took place in the Second World War during the Battle of France in 1940. It was part of the German Wehrmacht's operational plan codenamed Fall Gelb for an offensive through the hilly and forested Ardennes, to encircle the Allied armies in Belgium and north-eastern France. German Army Group A crossed the Meuse with the intention of capturing Sedan and pushing westwards towards the Channel coast, to trap the Allied forces that were advancing east into Belgium, as part of the Allied Dyle Plan.

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