Verneuil-sur-Avre
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Verneuil-sur-Avre is a town and commune in the Eure département, in southern Normandy, in France. Population (1999): 6,619.
[edit] History
In August 1424 during the Hundred Years' War the battle of Verneuil was fought just to the north of the town. An English army of 9,000 men beat a joint Franco-Scottish army of 15,000 men and as a result gained control of Normandy and Aquitaine and destroyed Scottish participation in the war.
The town has a twinning arrangement with Stowmarket, Suffolk, England.
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