Coudehard
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Coudehard (Script error: No such module "IPA".) is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France.
Geography
The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, La Cour du Bosq and Coudehard.[2]
The commune has the following streams running through its borders, the Secqueville, the Besion, the Foulbec, the Mont-Ormel and the Costillets.
Points of Interest
Hill 262 is an area of high ground above the commune that is a site of a bloody engagement in the final stages of the Battle of Falaise as part of Operation Overlord during the Second World War.[3] This is where a single polish regiment, the 1st Armoured Division, held back the German forces for 3 days on their own to close the Falaise pocket, before being relieved by the Canadian Grenadier Guards.[4] The Mémorial de Coudehard–Montormel museum, in the neighbouring commune of Mont-Ormel was constructed on the same site on the battle's 50th anniversary in 1994.[5]
See also
References
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