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French Battleship Lorraine, Ships of Brawiling Battleships Steel (382 words) |
 | Lorraine was part of the three-ship Provence “super-dreadnought” battleship class that was powered by coal-fired turbine engines with supplementary oil burners. |
| “Lorraine” is a portion of France near the German border that has long been a bone of contention between those two countries; a portion of Lorraine was part of Germany in 1914 as a result of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871. |
| Her heavy guns supported the landings in southern France in August and September 1944 and she bombarded a number of hold-out German fortresses in both the Mediterranean and Atlantic for the rest of the war. |
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Lorraine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (299 words) |
| the modern-day French administrative région of Lorraine, which is larger than the historical province of Lorraine, as it includes other provinces and areas which historically were separate from Lorraine proper: see Lorraine (région). |
| The name Lorraine and the territory that became the historical province of that name are both derived from the medieval duchy Lotharingia, from 959 divided into the duchies of Lower Lorraine and Upper Lorraine (the latter of which became modern Lorraine). |
| Lorraine is also used as a feminine name, above all in the US and Canada, after World War I, during which events brought Lorraine to the North American public imagination. |
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