comprised the 7th, 8th, 13th, 14th, and 21st Army Corps, two divisions of cavalry and one reserve infantry division. It was massed between Belfort and the general...

Service de la Culture. pp. 75. ISBN 978-0-312-04944-7. Base léonore. Ferdinand Veldekens (1858). Le livre d'or de l'ordre de Léopold et de la croix de fer. lelong...

1970s of 501 Régiment de Chars de Combat (501 RCC) being part of the 2nd Brigade of the 8th Armored Division, part of the 1st Corps of the First Army (France)...

Expeditionary Corps (French: Corps Expéditionnaire Français, CEF), also known as the French Expeditionary Corps in Italy (French: Corps Expéditionaire...

apprehending the pont de chemin de fer which was along Meuse south of Bazeilles. The next day, on September 1, 1870, the IIIrd and IV German corps attacked the...

French armoured divisions be consolidated from four weak divisions into three stronger ones and concentrated into an armoured corps under his command...

the units. Units such as the 49th Infantry Regiment (formerly the FFI Corps Franc Pommiés) and the 3rd Demi-Brigade of Chasseurs (formerly the FFI Alsace-Lorraine...

Co-Prince of Andorra. De Gaulle oversaw tough economic measures to revitalise the country, including the issuing of a new franc. Less than a year after...

légionnaires into the 90th Light Afrika Division. The rest of the Italian XX Motorised Corps, the 101st Motorized Division "Trieste", would open a gap in the...

division. The spearhead of the Free French First Army that had landed in Provence was the I Corps. Its leading unit, the French 1st Armoured Division...

de la Résistance, the Maquis de Vabre became the Corps franc de la libération no. 10, before joining the French forces of the interior. The Maquis de...

eventually formed their own organization, Résistance-Fer. The French Forces of the Interior (FFI), as de Gaulle came to call Resistance forces inside France...

D-Day were the 2nd Armored Division under Philippe Leclerc and the 1st Battalion Marine Commando Fusiliers (1er Bataillon de Fusiliers Marins Commandos)...

called the XIV Corps, an armed guerrilla movement of about 3,400 combatants by June 1944. Although the group first worked closely with the Francs-Tireurs et...

Expeditionary Corps in Italy. In 1944, the 1st Motorized Infantry Division became the 1st Marching Infantry Division (French: 1re Division de Marche d'Infanterie...

Atlantique Maquis de Saint-Marcel in Brittany Corps Franc du Sidobre (Tarn) Maquis La Tourette in the Hérault created by Jean Bène Maquis de Vabre (Tarn) Maquis...

General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque's 2nd French Armored Division made their way into Paris and arrived at the Hôtel de Ville shortly before midnight...

a full-strength armoured division. The spearhead of the Free French First Army that had landed in Provence was the Ist Corps. Its leading unit, the French...

of the private French Eastern Railway Company (Compagnie des Chemins de Fer de l'Est) – a total of 740 km of lines – were bought by the French state...

largest movements in the Zone (Francs-Tireurs et Partisans, Libération-sud and Combat) merged, which led to discussions with de Gaulle and Moulin, subsequently...

tanks, four companies of militia and irregulars, two platoons of the camel corps and an assortment of aircraft. Since the Allies were outnumbered by about...

(Arrondissement de La Gonâve) or Ouest-Insulaire in the Ouest and includes the communes of Anse-à-Galets and Pointe-à-Raquette. La Gonâve or Gonave is a francized form...

opposition from Emmanuel d'Astier de La Vigerie, leader of Liberation-Sud and Jean-Pierre Levy [fr], head of the Franc-Tireurs. Jean Moulin insisted that...

rear. Ariete Division of XX Motorised Corps was held up for about an hour by the 3rd Indian Motor Brigade of the 7th Armoured Division, dug in about...

on 24 December 1942, Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, one of the 7 November activists enlisted in the Corps Francs d'Afrique in World War II, shot Darlan...

Headquarters with the 4th Armoured Division, which had just been created and was commanded by Colonel Charles de Gaulle. Chomel's military qualities...

21 November 1944 by the 1st Armored Division, General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, and the 2nd Armored Division entered the city of Strasbourg in France...

the "Iron Division". The citation on the monument reads ""A la 11ieme division. La Lorraine et La France reconnaissantes Ici La division de Fer Arreta la...

the independence of the nation in exchange for a payment of 150 million francs. By an order of 17 April 1826, the King of France renounced his rights of...

Championnat de France Amateur 2009–10 Championnat de France amateur 2 The 93rd season of the best French division football competition "Les dates de la nouvelle...