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The Scarpe is a river in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France. It is a left tributary of the Scheldt. It is approximately long, of which two thirds has been turned into canals.
The source of the river is at Berles-Monchel near Aubigny-en-Artois. It flows through the cities Arras, Douai and Saint-Amand-les-Eaux. The river ends at Mortagne-du-Nord where it flows into the Scheldt.
The river and its valley were important battlegrounds in the First World War.
Scarpe Mountain in Alberta, Canada, was named after the river.
Scarpe may refer to:
- Scarpe river, in France
- Battle of the Scarpe (disambiguation), four Battles of the Scarpe were fought during World War I
- USS Scarpe (SP-713), a United States Navy ship
Usage examples of "scarpe".
Arras-Plouvain road along the valley of the river Scarpe, and we took over from a Scottish Division.
Half right, to the south of the river Scarpe, what remained of the village of Monchy stood out like a sentinel on the top of the hill.
Clan Croser, Clan Bannen, Clan Otler, Clan Scarpe, Clan Ganmiddich, and all the rest had to be brought into the war.
Bannen and Scarpe were close neighbors, though there was little love lost between the two.
Its chief was Yelma Scarpe, and in the ten years she had led the clan she had annexed land from Bannen and Dregg and taken control of an escarpment that Clan Orrl had held for eight decades and was a prime site for hunting and spotting wild sheep.
If something had happened to bring the two clans into dispute, and Clan Orrl had crossed swords with Clan Scarpe, then Mace Blackhail would make sure that it was Orrl that paid the highest price.
Twelve Scarpemen were slain on our border, and it suited Yelma Scarpe to point her finger our way.
Stangs from the Scarpe Tree, the poison pine that grew nowhere else in the clanholds except the hills surrounding Scarpe, had been used in construction of the roof.
Yelma Scarpe, the Weasel chief, had brought the torching upon herself.
Orrl warriors slain during a border skirmish when both Blackhail and Scarpe rode against them.
Dagro would never have placed Scarpe above Orrl, or invited dispossessed Scarpemen to rest their swords in his roundhouse.
The Scarpe fosterling and the Dregg fosterling: the Lord of the Clans and his wife.
Lean men, dressed in the black leatherwork and weasel pelts of Scarpe, watching her as if they had something to fear.
Her lore began to twitch against her skin, and she noticed sharp-eyed Uriah Scarpe glance at the wool at her throat.
Some of the Scarpe women had set up a cook chamber in the old granary, where the damp had risen too sharply to continue storing grain.