Mais la Loire rendit ces travaux particuli�rement difficiles, notamment la mise en place de la premi�re cul�e qui ne fut fond�e qu’en 1757 et qui n�cessita le travail de 600 hommes. In total 250 French were killed or wounded. The 218 students captured by the Germans were released in the following days instead of being interned, the cadets marched south, in the heat of summer, covering 43 km on 4 July, 35 km the next day as they passed St Maixent, then on the 8th they arrived in sight of the Demarcation Line, after cleaning their uniforms and polishing their boots they marched, singing, across the line to the Free Zone between lines of German soldiers standing at attention.The fight for Honour at Saumur is shown on a relief plaque by sculptor Pierre Duroux on the National The French blew the Pont Napoleon at Saumur just after midnight, the Montsoreau bridge at 1:15 am and 1,700 kilos of melinite destroyed the railway bridge to the east of Saumur at 3:00 am. By 3pm, the Gennes commander was able to report that they had been successful and the left bank of the Loire was in the hands of the French, but casualties had been high.Aunis farm on the flat plateau 1,800m inland of the Loire river and cliffs was the HQ of troop leader Captain de St-Blanquat and the troop brigades ordered to protect the gap between the railway bridge at Saumur and Montsoreau and when the Wehrmacht landed on the south side of the river, the unit realised it was in an excellent position to provide a defendable position to block a German breakout and trenches were quickly dug.

The Germans lost 132 killed, hundreds wounded and 7 armoured vehicles were destroyed. Avant d'émettre 2,000 shells hit Saumur over the next two days. ponts au profit des habitants de Saumur (arrêt imprimé du Conseil d'Etat, 4 septembre 1624, A.D.M.L., H 2112). A number of ancient buildings were destroyed, the civil population suffered casualties and hid in the cellars and wine caves. C'est donc l'inversion du procès que l'abbaye avait gagné en 1162 (elle avait obtenu la propriété des ponts au détriment de la ville). Many Wehrmacht officers commented on the bravery of the French students. Whilst reinforcements were approaching Gennes to repel the German bridgehead, yet another German bridgehead was established between Gennes and Saumur, threatening to take the town from the rear.The cadets at Gennes, supported by two tanks, were ordered to take back the bridgehead west of them. The 1940 game would be at this location, but with live bullets.Preparations were made to destroy the four bridges, over which refugees were streaming south. The 11th century church of St Eusèbe, on the high ground overlooking the bridge was an excellent view pointEarly next morning on the 20th, having been reinforced and with more artillery, the Wehrmacht used rafts and boats to overwhelm the few defenders on the island when their ammunition had run out, but they were unable to cross from the island to the south bank of the Loire, which was still strongly defended by four units of cadets.Moving westward downriver, the Germans looked for an alternative crossing point, identifying a gap that was only lightly held, where despite students arriving and inflicting casualties on the Germans the Wehrmacht managed to establish a small bridgehead on the south shore.Other Wehrmacht moving further west towards Angers, managed to find a point at which they could force a crossing against a different French defending unit and captured the city of Angers. As motor cyclists approached, the suspension bridge to the north of the island was blown. The German commander, General Of the 560 student officers from Saumur, 79 were killed and 47 wounded. Sappers from Men and materials not required for the defence were evacuated south, as were 800 horses belonging to the Cavalry School and the world-famous At dawn on the 19th, a German staff car approached the destroyed Saumur bridge and a German and French officer got out and approached the bridge under a white flag. Toutes les … In the first week of June 1940, in accordance with instructions by General On 8/9 June there was an air raid against Saumur railway station, which killed three people.

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