The Battle of Montcornet, on 17 May 1940 took place during the Battle of France. The French 4e Division cuirassée (Colonel Charles de Gaulle), attacked...

Montcornet may refer to: Montcornet, Aisne, a municipality in the Aisne department, France Battle of Montcornet, an engagement of the Battle of France...

south at Montcornet, where Guderian had his Korps headquarters and the 1st Panzer Division had its rear services. During the Battle of Montcornet, the French...

counter-attack at the Battle of Montcornet on 17 May by the 4e Division Cuirassée (4e DCr, Colonel Charles de Gaulle), from Montcornet to the south, was defeated...

May at the Battle of Montcornet, where it successfully threw back the German defenses but had to retreat on its starting positions for lack of support and...

The Battle of Abbeville took place from 27 May to 4 June 1940, near Abbeville during the Battle of France in the Second World War. On 20 May, the 2nd Panzer...

Montcornet (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃kɔʁnɛ]) is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. On 14 May 1940, Charles de Gaulle...

The attack at Montcornet, a key road junction near Laon, began around 04:30 on 17 May. Outnumbered and without air support, he lost 23 of his 90 vehicles...

flanks of Army Group A, most notably combining to repulse Charles de Gaulle's Fourth Armoured Division on 16 and 19 May, at the Battle of Montcornet and...

Commanders of World War II were for the most part career officers. They were forced to adapt to new technologies and forged the direction of modern warfare...

the thought and action of World War II French Resistance leader Charles de Gaulle, who would become the founding President of the Fifth French Republic...

the 4th Armoured Division at the Battle of Montcornet. However, he was not personally popular; significantly, none of his immediate military subordinates...

Laon but the AASF HQ was out of touch and Barratt knew nothing about it, except that German forces were west of the Montcornet–Neufchâtel road. Reconnaissance...

The Battle of Hürtgen Forest (German: Schlacht im Hürtgenwald) was a series of battles fought from 19 September to 16 December 1944, between American and...

The Battle of Dunkirk (French: Bataille de Dunkerque) was fought around the French port of Dunkirk (Dunkerque) during the Second World War, between the...

chronological list of the battles involving France in modern history. These lists do not include the battles of the French civil wars (as the Wars of Religion,...

troops. His newly formed 4e Division cuirassée reached Montcornet, resulting in the Battle of Montcornet. Without support, the 4th DCR was forced to retreat...

Battle of Castle Itter was fought on 5 May 1945, in the Austrian village of Itter in the North Tyrol region of the country, during the last days of the...

one-day Battle of Montcornet was fought when the 4e Division cuirassée under Colonel Charles de Gaulle attacked the Germans at the strategic village of Montcornet...

airfields, it played a role in the defeat of Charles de Gaulle's 4th Armoured Division at the Battle of Montcornet, on 17–19 May. It bombed the bridges over...

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May Charles de Gaulle's 4e Division cuirassée was defeated at the Battle of Montcornet. The fragmentation bombs were particularly devastating, blowing off...

The Battle for The Hague (Dutch: Slag om Den Haag) took place on 10 May 1940 during the Battle of the Netherlands. German Fallschirmjäger units were dropped...

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The Battle of Cologne was part of Operation Lumberjack and refers to the Allied advance that took place from 5 to 7 March 1945, which led to the capture...

with the destruction of 40 French tanks. For these achievements in the Battle of Montcornet, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 18...

The Battle of Aachen was a battle of World War II, fought by American and German forces in and around Aachen, Germany, between 12 September and 21 October...

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The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive, was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during the Second World...

The Italian invasion of France (10–25 June 1940), also called the Battle of the Alps, was the first major Italian engagement of World War II and the last...