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...
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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...
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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)...
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Expeditionary Corps (French: Corps Expéditionnaire Français, CEF), also known as the French Expeditionary Corps in Italy (French: Corps Expéditionaire...
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French armoured divisions be consolidated from four weak divisions into three stronger ones and concentrated into an armoured corps under his command...
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French Forces of the Interior (redirect from Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur)
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...
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Army of Châlons (section 1st Army Corps)
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...
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Battle of Bir Hakeim (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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largest movements in the Zone (Francs-Tireurs et Partisans, Libération-sud and Combat) merged, which led to discussions with de Gaulle and Moulin, subsequently...
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French Liberation Army (redirect from Armée française de la Libération)
D-Day were the 2nd Armored Division under Philippe Leclerc and the 1st Battalion Marine Commando Fusiliers (1er Bataillon de Fusiliers Marins Commandos)...
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Free France (redirect from Campagne de France (1944))
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...
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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...
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Liberation of Paris (redirect from Libération de Paris)
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...
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Liberation of France (category CS1 German-language sources (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...
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Expeditionary Corps in Italy. In 1944, the 1st Motorized Infantry Division became the 1st Marching Infantry Division (French: 1re Division de Marche d'Infanterie...
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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...
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Alsace–Lorraine (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
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...
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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...
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Gonâve Island (redirect from Íle de la Gonâve)
(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...
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Battle of Gazala (category Battle honours of the King's Royal Rifle Corps)
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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the Paris-Strasbourg railway company (after 1854, Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Est) separated La Chapelle from La Villette. A junction between the...
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Raymond Chomel (section With de Gaulle (1940))
Headquarters with the 4th Armoured Division, which had just been created and was commanded by Colonel Charles de Gaulle. Chomel's military qualities...
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Haiti (category Member states of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie)
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...
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List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in Lorraine (section Monument to the 15th Army Corps in Vergaville French Military Cemetery)
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...
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