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Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal



Armorial Description

Upon the ball of a grenade with a flame of thirteen points, the letters FMR in script entwined, ensigned with the Crown; below, a scroll inscribed NUNQUAM RETRORSUM.


Official Abbreviation: Fus MR

Motto: Nunquam Retrorsum (Never retreat)


Battle Honours (29)

Early History

    CANADA DU NORD-OUEST, 1885
First World War
    YPRES, 1915, '17
    COTE 70
    FESTUBERT, 1915
    AMIENS
    SOMME, 1916
    Linge Hindenburg
    ARRAS, 1917, '18
    PURSUITE MONS
Second World War
    DIEPPE
    l'Escaut
    Crete de Bourguebus
    Woensdrecht
    SAINT-ANDRE-SUR-ORNE
    BEVELAND SUD
    CRETE DE VERRIERES -- TILLY-LA-CAMPAGNE
    La Rhenanie
    LE HOCHWALD
    FALAISE
    Route de la Falaise
    Le Rhin
    La Laison
    GRONINGUE
    Foret de la Londe
    Oldenburg
    DUNKERQUE, 1944
    Nord-ouest de l'Europe, 1942, 1944-1945
    ANVERS-CANAL DE TURNHOUT

Order of Precedence: 21
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Today in Military History

September 7



1191:

Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf - Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.


1812:

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Borodino - Napoleon defeats the Russian army of Alexander I near the village of Borodino.


1864:

American Civil War: Atlanta, Georgia, is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.


1901:

The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Peking Protocol.


1939:

Introduction of Atlantic convoys


1940:

Beginning of the London blitz


1940:

World War II: The Blitz - Nazi Germany begins to rain bombs on London. This will be the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing.


1942:

While escorting convoy QS-22 up the St. Lawerence river to the open sea, the armed yacht HMCS RACOON is struck by a torpedo from U-165. There are no survivors.




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