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Saint-Lô
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Saint-Lô (săN-lō), town (1990 pop. 22,819), capital of Manche dept., NW France, in Normandy. It is an agricultural center and has famous horse stables. Wood products, plaster, and clothing are manufactured. An old Gallo-Roman town, Saint-Lô was a medieval fortress and was the scene of a massacre of Huguenots Huguenots , French Protestants, followers of John Calvin. The term is derived from the German Eidgenossen, meaning sworn companions or confederates. Origins


Prior to Calvin's publication in 1536 of his
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 in the 16th cent. Saint-Lô has been rebuilt since its virtual destruction during the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944.


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Their battles in Sadr City and Baghdad will be remembered along with battles fought by other 3d Battalion, 112th Field Artillery Regiment soldiers at Trenton, New Jersey; Antietam, Maryland; and Saint Lo, France and with battles fought by military police in Vietnam, Panama, and Iraq.
Ninth Air Force civil engineer groups, after participating in D-Day, followed the Army forward with the Saint Lo breakthrough, sandwiching heavy construction equipment between tanks and supply trucks.
 
 
 
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