The Army of the West (armée de l'Ouest) was one of the French Revolutionary Armies that was sent to fight in the War in the Vendée in western France. The...
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Modern equipment of the French Army is a list of equipment currently in service with the French Army. Figures are provided by the Ministry of Armed Forces...
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Army of the West may refer to: Army of the West (1793), a French Revolutionary unit during the French Revolutionary Wars Army of the West (1846), a United...
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The Battle of France (French: bataille de France; 10 May – 25 June 1940), also known as the Western Campaign (German: Westfeldzug), the French Campaign...
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The First Army (French: 1re Armée) was a field army of France that fought during World War I and World War II. It was also active during the Cold War....
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The French Revolutionary Army (French: Armée révolutionnaire française) was the French land force that fought the French Revolutionary Wars from 1792 to...
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The French Liberation Army (French: Armée française de la Libération or AFL) was the reunified French Army that arose from the merging of the Armée d'Afrique...
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a large contribution to the war effort, the Polish Armed Forces in the West was composed of army, air and naval forces. The Poles soon became shock troops...
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The Army of the North or Armée du Nord is a name given to several historical units of the French Army. The first was one of the French Revolutionary Armies...
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The 1917 French Army mutinies took place amongst French Army troops on the Western Front in northern France during World War I. They started just after...
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Free France (French: France libre) was a political entity claiming to be the legitimate government of France following the dissolution of the Third Republic...
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Peninsular War (redirect from Army of Spain (France))
army in Andalusia defeated the French at the Battle of Bailén, considered the first open-field defeat of the Napoleonic army on a European battlefield...
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France was ruled by monarchs from the establishment of the Kingdom of West Francia in 843 until the end of the Second French Empire in 1870, with several...
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formed in 1942, during the North African campaign and surrendered to the Allies at Tunis in 1943. The army was re-formed in France in 1944, fought in Western...
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Rudolph (French: Rodolphe), sometimes called Ralph (Raoul; c. 890 – 14/15 January 936), was the king of France from 923 until his death in 936. He was...
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The Armistice Army (French: Armée de l'Armistice) or Vichy French Army was the armed forces of Vichy France permitted under the terms of the Armistice...
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certain; some in the French army lobbied for the alternative mass production of super-heavy tanks. Much design effort was put in this line of development resulting...
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French West Africa (French: Afrique-Occidentale française, AOF) was a federation of eight French colonial territories in West Africa: Mauritania, Senegal...
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called the Simple or the Straightforward (from the Latin Carolus Simplex), was the king of West Francia from 898 until 922 and the king of Lotharingia...
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The French Imperial Army (French: Armée Impériale) was the land force branch of the French imperial military during the Napoleonic era. The beginnings...
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The Polish Army in France formed in France under the command of General Władysław Sikorski (and hence sometimes known as Sikorski's Army) in late 1939...
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The French Revolutionary Wars (French: Guerres de la Révolution française) were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French Revolution...
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Western Front (World War II) (redirect from Invasion of the Low Countries (1940))
against the remaining French armies. With most of the French armies either destroyed or taken prisoner, the Germans quickly broke through the French lines...
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Territorial Army (United Kingdom) Territorial Army (Ethiopia), part of the Ethiopian National Defense Force Territorial Army (Germany), part of the West German...
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monarchy, the first standing army since Roman times, and the use of artillery, France expelled the English from its territory and came out of the Middle...
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Front. The First Army Group guarded the north-east frontier of France, ready to move into Belgium and the Netherlands to oppose any German invasion of those...
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The first Army Group A, previously known as "Army Group South", was active from October 1939 to June 1941 and notably served in the Battle of France as...
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delayed by the movement of the French Fifth Army (General Charles Lanrezac) towards the north-west to intercept them and the presence of the British Expeditionary...
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Lothair (French: Lothaire; Latin: Lothārius; 941 – 2 March 986), sometimes called Lothair II, III or IV, was the penultimate Carolingian king of West Francia...
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The structure of the French Army is fixed by Chapter 2 of Title II of Book II of the Third Part of the Code of Defense, notably resulting in the codification...
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