The Empire Defense Council (French: Conseil de défense de l'Empire) was a deliberative body established within Free France in 1940. It was subsequently...

war to administer the operation of Free France, starting with the Empire Defense Council days after Vichy capitulated in June 1940, and ending with the Provisional...

Africa had followed suit. De Gaulle announced formation of the Empire Defense Council in Brazzaville, which became the capital of Free France. Allied...

An order of October 27, 1940, created the Conseil de défense de l'Empire (Empire Defense Council), which included, in addition to de Gaulle, the governors...

defeat of Poland in October 1939 and April 1940. Anglo-French Supreme War Council set up to organize a joint strategy against Germany. The Battle of France...

armistice, unlike General de Gaulle, who favored fighting on in the Empire Defense Council It was followed by the fifth administration of Pierre Laval, the...

réorganisation de l'armée de terre Française (1943–1946), page 28. Ministere de la Defense, Château de Vincennes, 1980. De Lattre de Tassigny, Jean. The History of...

join the Free French Forces. On 27 October 1940, the Empire Defense Council (Conseil de défense de l'Empire)—later the French National Committee (Comité...

commando du pont Pégase. Editions France-Empire. ISBN 2-704-80429X. Merchet, Jean-Dominique (6 June 2012). "Secret Défense (French)". The Wall Street Journal...

rejected as a future possibility. During World War II, the French colonial empire played an essential role in the Liberation of France by gradually aligning...

is not alone! She is not alone! She has a vast Empire behind her. She can align with the British Empire that holds the sea and continues the fight. She...

The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC; Ukrainian: Рада національної безпеки і оборони України, romanized: Rada natsionalnoyi bezpeky...

Chad was a part of the French colonial empire from 1900 to 1960. Colonial rule under the French began in 1900 when the Military Territory of Chad was established...

previously abolished by the legislature, granted the newly established Second Empire firm ground. A republican regime was given way again in 1870 through the...

it published a falsified version of the Address to All Workers by the Council for Maintaining the Occupations, removing the references to the Situationist...

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to Brazzaville in October 1940 to announce the formation of an Empire Defense Council and to invite all French possessions loyal to Vichy to join it and...

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from 1941 to 1943. The committee was the successor of the smaller Empire Defense Council.[full citation needed] It was Winston Churchill who suggested that...

World War. It was one of the eight great networks making up the National Council of the Resistance. Initially an underground newspaper, from December 1940...

2019, Liberation Route Europe became a certified Cultural Route of the Council of Europe. After the fall of France in 1940 and their own defeat on the...

The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed...

The National Council of the Resistance (French: Conseil National de la Résistance; CNR; also, National Resistance Council) directed and coordinated the...

The Empire of Brazil was a 19th-century state that broadly comprised the territories which form modern Brazil and Uruguay until the latter achieved independence...

the capital of Free French Africa, Charles De Gaulle created the Empire Defense Council on 27 October 1940, with the goal of dealing with “the general conduct...

already represents a global empire in its initial form: For a major power, prosecution of any war that is not a defense of the homeland usually requires...

The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centred in Constantinople during late antiquity...

The Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire was the highest executive authority of the Russian Empire, created in a new form by the highest decree of...

The Ottoman Empire (/ˈɒtəmən/), also called the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa...

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