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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Eidolon, post: 3604203, member: 102103&quot;]Almost a Canadian coin...&nbsp; Saint Pierre and Miquelon 1 Franc 1948. Canada conquered it several times but it always wound up back in France&#039;s possession eventually.&nbsp; During WW2 the islands caused quite a bit of turmoil after France fell.&nbsp; Newfoundland is only a few miles away, and wanted to invade to keep the Nazis from using it to spy on allied convoys for submarine warfare.&nbsp; Canada and the UK weren&#039;t keen on creating an international incident and pushing Vichy France from &quot;neutral&quot; to hostile.&nbsp; They dithered around so long that de Gaulle&#039;s Free French sent a couple ships in secrecy to bloodlessly reconquer it in late 1941.&nbsp; The US was furious with de Gaulle, but too busy after Pearl Harbor to do more than complain.[ATTACH=full]964771[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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