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WISSEMBOURG 4 August 1870 – Alsace Violated
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WISSEMBOURG 4 August 1870 – Alsace Violated

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On the morning of 4 August 1870, the 2nd division of General Abel Douay was positioned on the heights of Wissembourg, a few hundred metres from the enemy frontier. On the other side, several Prussian and Bavarian corps were advancing without having been detected by the French cavalry reconnaissance. An unequal battle was engaged in and around the town, in...
LIGNY 16 June 1815 – The Emperor's Last Victory
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LIGNY 16 June 1815 – The Emperor's Last Victory

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15 June 1815. After the capture of Charleroi, the Emperor has just entrusted command of his left wing to Marshal Ney, with the mission of advancing towards Brussels in order to cut definitively the communications between the Anglo-Dutch Allies and the Prussians. He himself takes command of the right column. To slow the French advance and allow their own...
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QUATRE-BRAS 16 June 1815 – The Second Prelude to Waterloo
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QUATRE-BRAS 16 June 1815 – The Second Prelude to Waterloo

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June 1815. It is nearly three months since the Emperor returned to Paris. Outlawed by the nations, he knows that a new invasion of France is imminent; the only chance of preventing it lies in striking the Prussian and Anglo-Dutch concentrations. To achieve this, they must be prevented from joining forces and defeated separately. On 15 June, the imperial...
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HELIOPOLIS 20 March 1800 – Kléber and the Last Victory of the Army of the Orient
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HELIOPOLIS 20 March 1800 – Kléber and the Last Victory of the Army of the Orient

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When Bonaparte left Egypt, he handed command to Kléber. The latter attempted to negotiate with the British and the Ottomans the return of the Army of the Orient to France, but the massacre of the garrison at El-Arish brought the negotiations to an end. On 20 March 1800, the French soldiers confronted and defeated the Ottoman army of Youssef Pasha amid the...
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HONDSCHOOTE September 1793 – The First Victory of the Gendarmerie
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HONDSCHOOTE September 1793 – The First Victory of the Gendarmerie

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September 1793. The Homeland is in grave danger, facing a Europe outraged by the execution of King Louis XVI. After the defeat of Neerwinden in March, the armies of the Republic must recover their morale and find the road to victory in order to confront the Anglo-Austro-Prussian coalition ranged against them. With remarkable energy, Lazare Carnot...
VERNEUIL 17 August 1424 – The Scots to the Aid of France
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VERNEUIL 17 August 1424 – The Scots to the Rescue of France

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August 1424. After an hour of fierce fighting, twelve thousand combatants lay strewn across the plain a few hundred metres from the small Norman town. The Lombard-Hispanic-Scots-French army, commanded by Archibald Douglas, newly created Duke of Touraine and in the service of Charles VII, had just suffered a terrible reverse at the hands of the English...
THE ACTION DIVISION IN LAOS 1945 – Missions KAY 1 and KAY 2 THE ACTION DIVISION IN LAOS 1945 – Missions KAY 1 and KAY 2 2
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THE ACTION DIVISION IN LAOS 1945 – Missions KAY 1 and KAY 2

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On 15 August 1945, Emperor Hirohito announced the surrender of Japan. Taking advantage of the ensuing confusion and of France's weakness, the independence movements did everything to prevent her return to the Union. In Laos, the Lao Issara independence movement and the Viet Minh would oppose the roughly 500 fighters of the Franco-Laotian guerrilla, who...
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FRENCH VOLUNTEERS IN THE GERMAN ARMY - From the LVF to...
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FRENCH VOLUNTEERS IN THE GERMAN ARMY - From the LVF to the Charlemagne

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Between 1941 and the end of the Second World War, several tens of thousands of Frenchmen fought under the banner of the Third Reich, whether as members of the Légion des volontaires français (LVF), the Légion Tricolore, the Sturmbrigade Frankreich, the Charlemagne division, or various other units (NSKK, Organisation Todt, Kriegsmarine...).
THE SOLDIERS OF 1940. A SACRIFICED GENERATION
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THE SOLDIERS OF 1940. A SACRIFICED GENERATION

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The history of the « phoney war », which mobilised five million French soldiers from 1939 to the defeat of June 1940, has long been reduced, in our national memory, to the Fernandel of La vache et le prisonnier or the adventures of La Septième compagnie. Eighty years after that « strange defeat », the heroes of Dunkirk or of the Maginot Line — prisoners...
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I WAS HITLER'S PILOT - Hans Baur
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I WAS HITLER'S PILOT - Hans Baur

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An exceptional testimony from someone close to Hitler Hitler, who overcame his fear of flying to make intensive use of it from the presidential election of 1932 onward, never wanted any pilot other than Hans Baur. A fighter pilot during the Great War, a pioneer of military airmail and one of the founders of Lufthansa in 1926 — in whose service he tested...
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DES AILES DANS LES JAMBES – Memoirs of André Courval FAFL...
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DES AILES DANS LES JAMBES – Memoirs of André Courval FAFL 1939–1945

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After three escapes in answer to General De Gaulle's call, André Courval enlisted in 1940 in the Free French Air Forces. His Memoirs, enhanced by drawings from his own hand and personal photographs, recount the odyssey of a flying crew member from sub-Saharan Africa to the liberation of France.
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