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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Division (French: 1re Division Blindée, 1re DB) is a unit of the French Army formed during World War II that took part in the Liberation of France. The division...
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islands of Corsica and Elba in 1943 - 1944 and in the campaigns to liberate France in 1944 and invade Germany in 1945. The Corps saw service throughout the...
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to 1945, General Charles de Gaulle led the following departments: Free French Forces (Forces Françaises Libres, FFL) 1st Free French Division (1re Division...
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ISBN 0-7106-0341-X. Les Armées Françaises dans la Grande Guerre. Army Corps. Armée Service Historique. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1922. 1st Army Corps (France) also part...
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Gilles Aubagnac. "Le retrait des troupes noires de la 1re Armée". Revue historique des armées, no 2, 1993, p. 34-46. Muracciole (2009), pp. 34–35. Crémieux-Brilhac...
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The 1st Free French Division (French: 1re Division Française Libre, 1re DFL) was one of the principal units of the Free French Forces (FFL) during World...
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June 1944 and then landed in Provence and with 1re armée française (1st French Army), participated in the liberation of southern and eastern France and...
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unfolding of the Grande Armée. 1813 in France: incorporation of the remainder of the regiment into the 123rd Infantry Regiment (French: 123e Régiment d'Infanterie...
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campaign where he landed with the 1re division française libre (1re DFL) (1st Free French Division) on 20 April 1944. Promoted to chief warrant officer...
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Morts de la Force Armée de la guerre de 1940–1945" (PDF). Grand Duché de Luxembourg Ministére D'État Bulletin D'Information (in French). Vol. 4, no. 10...
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of the French Army (Armée de Terre), the French Navy (Marine Nationale, formerly called Armée de Mer), the French Air and Space Force (Armée de l'Air...
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Military history of Cambodia (redirect from Armée Nationale Sihanoukienne)
"Archive & 1re Guerre mondiale : Quand les Cambodgiens se battaient pour la France" (in French). Retrieved 13 January 2018. "Cambodia The French Protectorate...
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1st Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment (redirect from French Squadron SAS)
France 1944 Ardennes Belges 1945 Hollande 1945 Indochine 1946-1954 Koweït 1990–1991 2011 Libyan civil war[citation needed] The most decorated French and...
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Pierre Vilars (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
in Upper Volta and rejoined the French Free Forces under Charles de Gaulle. He was named a lieutenant in the 1re armée [fr] in March 1943 and took on the...
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at the orders of the armed forces between 1943 and 1945, along with the 1st Free French Division (1re DFL), which also received four citations. The 3e DIA...
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New Caledonia (redirect from New Caledonia (France))
broadcaster France Télévisions operates a local channel, Réseau Outre-Mer 1re, along with France 2, France 3, France 4, France 5, France 24 and Arte....
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1st Marine Infantry Regiment (category Marines regiments of France)
-Ki-Hao French intervention in Mexico 1863 – Puebla War of 1870–1871 On August 17, 1870, the 1st Marching Marine Infantry Regiment was part of the Armée de...
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Paul Gardy (category People convicted of treason against France)
1re DB as of July 1943. Designated second in command of the 2nd African Chasseur Regiment (French: 2e Régiment de Chasseur d'Afrique) in April 1944,...
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First Canadian Army (category Articles containing French-language text)
The First Canadian Army (French: 1reArmée canadienne) was a field army and a formation of the Canadian Army in World War II in which most Canadian elements...
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2nd Marine Infantry Regiment (category Marines regiments of France)
the 2nd Marine Infantry Regiment 2e RIMa was part of the Armée de Châlons (1870) (French: Armée de Châlons (1870)) of Marshal de MacMahon. With the 3rd...
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Digne-les-Bains (category Prefectures in France)
Laffite Reprints, Marseille, 1973 (1re édition 1950), p. 165–166. Nègre, Ernest (1990). Toponymie générale de la France : étymologie de 35 000 noms de lieux...
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1st Parachute Chasseur Regiment (category Parachute infantry regiments of France)
Car sur la terre de France Et ailleurs s'il le fallait Nous resterions le fer de lance De notre belle armée Vosges 1944 Colmar 1945 Indochine 1947–1950...
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(Captain) Philippe Kieffer of the Free French Navy, under whose command they participated in the Normandy landings in 1944. The creation of the battalion was...
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Jean Olié (category Articles containing French-language text)
1st French Army (French: 1re Armée Française), from 24 November 1944, then chief of the general staff headquarters of the 3rd Armored Division (French: 3e...
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Belgian Navy (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
Naval Component (Dutch: Marinecomponent, pronounced [maːˈriːnəkɔmpoːˌnɛnt]; French: Composante marine, pronounced [kɔ̃pozɑ̃t maʁin]; German: Marinekomponente...
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Jean Raoux (soldier) (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
advance into Germany February 1945 – Birth of his son Bernard 1945 – Under the orders of Colonel de Pouilly, he joined the 1re Division Blindée at Besançon...
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3rd Marine Infantry Regiment (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
the 3rd Marching Marine Infantry Regiment was part of the Armée de Châlons (1870) (French: Armée de Châlons (1870)) of Marshal de MacMahon. With the 2nd...
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German invasion of Belgium (1940) (category Battles of World War II involving France)
alone. The French 7th Army was assigned to protect the northernmost part of the Allied front. It contained the 1st Light Mechanized Division (1re DLM), the...
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Martinique (redirect from Martinique (France))
4 national channels of the France Télévisions group, the news channel France 24, Arte and 4 local channels Martinique 1re, ViàATV, KMT Télévision. Zouk...
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