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1 History

Fleury-sur-Orne has 4,250 inhabitants. Fleury-sur-Orne, forms part of outlying Greater CaenCaen Region Basse-Normandie Departement Calvados Arrondissement24 cantons287 communes389,973 habitants Cantonschief town of 9 cantons(13 common, 162,707 habitants) HabitantsCaennais Population (1999)117,157 habitants Intercommunality ( 2004) Agglomeration, composed of 18 communes and 198,023 inhabitants.

Until 19161916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) Events January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. Impressionist Monet paints Water Lilies'. January 8 Allied forces withdraw from Fleury-sur-Orne was known as Allemagne after the AlamanniThe Alamanni or Allemanni or Alemanni are a Germanic tribe, first mentioned by Dio Cassius, under the year 213. They apparently dwelt in the basin of the Main River, to the south of the Chatti. According to Asinius Quadratus their name "all men" indicates tribe which guarded the ford across the OrneThe Orne is a river in Normandy, France. It flows out into the English Channel at the port of Ouistreham. The departement of Orne has taken its name from the river. The Orne formed the Eastern flank of the Allied landings at Normandy during World War II o. During the First World WarWorld War I (also known as the First World War , the Great War the War of the Nations and the "War to End All Wars") was a world conflict occurring from 1914 to 1918. No previous conflict had mobilized so many soldiers, or involved so many in the field of this name, meaning in French Germany, became inconvenient and embarrassing. The Town council therefore decided on August 23August 23 is the 235th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (236th in leap years), with 130 days remaining. Events 1328 Battle of Kassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers 1566 Calvinists are granted rights in the Netherlands 1614 The, 1916, to change the name and to call it Fleury-sur-Orne in memory of the commune of Fleury-Devant-Douaumont, a commune of the Meuse (in 1914: 422 inhabitants, school, church, town hall, 13 tradesmen, 10 landholding farmers), which was destroyed in 1916.

2 The massacre of the Athis fort

In 1047, Duke William of Normandy (later William the Conqueror), helped by Henry I, king of France, put an end to a revolt of Norman barons at the Battle of Val-ès-Dunes, close to the villages of Chicheboville, Secqueville and Bourguébus. Little is known about this battle, but it seems to be have been a purely cavalry contest, with neither infantry nor archers playing a significant role.

After a series of disorderly cavalry skirmishes, the rebellious barons fled. They were slaughtered as they tried to cross the Orne, at the Athis fort close to Fleury-sur-Orne. Carried downstream en masse, the bodies of the massacred knights blocked the mill of Barbillon on the level of current Ile Enchantée .

The victory allowed William to remain Duke of Normandy, thus setting the stage for his later brilliant battles and statecraft.