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Flers is the name or part of the name of several communes in France: The commune (in French: commune, word appeared in the 12th century, from Medieval Latin communia, gathering of people sharing a common life, from Latin communis, things held in common) is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. ...

  • Flers-en-Escrebieux, in the Nord département
  • Flers-sur-Noye, in the Somme département

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Battle of Flers-Courcelette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (371 words)
Objectives that were taken included High Wood and the Switch Line over which the British had been struggling for two months.
On the left flank the Canadian Corps captured Courcelette while in the centre the villages of Martinpuich and Flers were taken but these were short of the original objectives of Gueudecourt and Lesboeufs.
On the right, the German redoubt known as the Quadrilateral stopped the British well short of Morval.
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