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The little-known history of Bonaparte's painful defeat in Palestine.
€16.11
Though outnumbered, the French resist the power of the Russian artillery
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WAVRE AND THE BATTLE OF NAMUR, 18–21 JUNE 1815 – THE EPILOGUE OF THE BELGIAN CAMPAIGN
L20160004
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LEERNES AND COLLARMONT - 22 AUGUST 1914 - THE FORGOTTEN MEN OF THE BATTLE OF CHARLEROI
L20160018
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The forgotten men of the Battle of Charleroi
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When Savoy, Dauphiné and Geneva tore each other apart
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Louis XI against the League of the Public Weal
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The last war between Francis I and Charles V
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The Gallic Wars are a major event in the history of the Western world. It is therefore surprising that the history of the men who carried out this conquest attracted so little interest from historians of the past.
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In 2010, the 1st Mechanised Brigade of Châlons-en-Champagne stood up Task Force La Fayette V, designated to serve the following year in Afghanistan, a state plunged for four decades into a particularly deadly conflict.
It was in the majestic but extremely dangerous setting of that distant country that these men carried out their duty as soldiers with...
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While everyone knows the Battle of Waterloo, or Mont-Saint-Jean, in 1815, few people know that this site had already seen French and Coalition armies clash in July 1794. That year, having won a success — all in all limited — at the Battle of Fleurus, the French Army of Sambre-et-Meuse under General Jourdan continued the fight to prevent the forces of the...
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ÎLE DE RÉ – July–November 1627 – The Duke of Buckingham Defeated before Saint-Martin-de-Ré
L20200089
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What cyclist riding through the salt marshes around Loix, or what summer visitor swimming at the Pointe des Sablanceaux, suspects that these peaceful places witnessed bloody clashes during an attempted conquest of the Île de Ré in 1627? That year, in the aftermath of the Wars of Religion, the kingdom of Louis XIII was attempting to recover some semblance...
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Crécy, Poitiers, Agincourt… the history of the Hundred Years' War as it is taught is punctuated solely by great land battles, chevauchées across France, and sieges of towns and fortresses. Reading these accounts, one would never imagine that this long conflict was also a naval war — that squadrons clashed at sea, that numerous merchant vessels were sunk...
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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...
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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...
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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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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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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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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...
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On 31 July 1914, at five o'clock in the morning, notary Duquenne, burgomaster of Lobbes, was ordered to post the military mobilisation notice in his commune. Like the entire population of the neighbouring villages of the Haute-Sambre, he would witness requisitions, the deployment of Red Cross units and the return of expatriates from the belligerent...
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Southwest of Lyon, April 1362. Led by the Constable of France, Jacques de Bourbon, the French army marches on the small town of Brignais, occupied by bands of routiers. These soldiers, idle since the signing of the Treaty of Brétigny two years earlier, roam the roads and spread terror throughout the southern provinces of the kingdom of France. Although...
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In 1217, Prince Louis of France (the future Louis VIII, son of Philip II Augustus and father of Saint Louis) was waging war in England in the hope of seizing the crown. The convoy bringing him vital reinforcements was intercepted at sea, somewhere between Dover, Sandwich and South Foreland, and never reached the English coast. This naval battle is...
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LES BLANCS-SABLONS LE CONQUET 25 April 1513 – The Franco-Breton Navy Repels the Royal Navy
L20200100
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Every summer, the Blancs-Sablons beach at Le Conquet draws thousands of tourists in search of fresh air and invigorating bathing. How many know that five centuries ago, a fierce naval battle was fought off that beach, between English sailors and French and Breton sailors? And that the reddened waters of the Iroise Sea washed dozens of corpses onto the...
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Glières 1944. More than 60 years ago, the Battle of Glières was a "great and magnificent adventure" (Malraux) that shed the blood of more than a hundred Resistance fighters from Haute-Savoie. This episode, a symbol of Resistance to the Nazi occupation and to the Vichy Order Maintenance Forces (Milice and GMR), had never previously been examined from a...
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A comprehensive study devoted to the gladiators of Roman antiquity, detailing the history of gladiature, recruitment and training, the various categories of combatants — such as the essedarius, the murmillo and the retiarius — armament and the conduct of bouts. Numerous photographs of frescoes and mosaics from across the Roman Empire complement the text.
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The military life of Jean-François Cowez under the Empire (1809–1815)
Through the previously unpublished account of Jean-François Cowez, we enter the grand sweep of History through a side door left ajar by a young soldier of the First Empire. He recounts numerous anecdotes which, throughout his manuscript, reflect a life containing more days of suffering...
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Or, The Affair of the 29th Bulletin of the Grande Armée
It is precisely the desperate struggle of General Partouneaux's 12th Infantry Division and the 30th Cavalry Brigade under General Delaitre — attached to it just days before the crossing of the Berezina — that this work reconstructs in its entirety, drawing on the testimonies of those who fought it...
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On 19 October, the French Navy commemorates the day of the naval fusiliers. This date corresponds roughly to the start of the Battle of Dixmude, which raged from mid-October (the first skirmishes took place on the 16th) to 10 November 1914.
The naval fusiliers brigade distinguished itself during these particularly bloody engagements. They thus became the...
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Edward III's chevauchée broke before Reims, the City of Coronations.
In 1359, Edward III of England held John II the Good prisoner after his crushing defeat at Poitiers (1356). France was slow to pay the enormous ransom for its sovereign. Weary of waiting, Edward decided to mount an expedition to have himself crowned King of France at Reims.
The City of...
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Live free or die!
The author retraces this founding historical episode of the 1st French Republic.
It all begins with the flight of Louis XVI and the royal family, halted at Varennes-en-Argonne on 21 June 1791. The French would see in his failed attempt to leave France a flagrant collusion with foreign powers. Following bitter debate, during which each...
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The Swiss Invade France
At the beginning of July 1815, a few days after his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon abdicated and embarked for his final exile on the island of Saint Helena. At the same time, one million foreign soldiers, drawn from some thirty European nations and states, swept across France and occupied virtually the entire territory.
Taking...
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On 17 July 1453, a decisive turning point in the history of France. Before the stronghold of Castillon, supported by the cavalry of Pierre II, Duke of Brittany, the troops of Charles VII commanded by Jean de Bueil and the Bureau brothers faced the Anglo-Gascon forces one final time, led by an experienced but ageing captain, John Talbot.
This final battle,...
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« Military authorities [believed] that Communist troops would be incapable of taking Dien Bien Phu. Giap's soldiers came and it was a horror, with a tragic end beneath shellfire and torrential rain. The men waded through mud, blood, urine, excrement, rats and pestilential odours. The wounded were operated on in the midst of this charnel house, with no...
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In the late summer of 1793, the French Republic stood on the brink of collapse. Engaged in a war against a powerful coalition of European states, it had suffered defeat after defeat since the spring, and on all its borders its territory was being invaded. On 8 September 1793, by seizing victory at Hondschoote in Flanders over their Anglo-Hanoverian...
€55.00
Medieval skirmish game for 2 or more players.
MONTGISARD is the name of the battle won by Baldwin IV, the Leper King of Jerusalem in 1177 against Saladin's Egyptian army. This game is an expansion for AGER SANGUINIS and introduces new Templar counters as well as famous figures such as Raynald of Châtillon, Balian of Ibelin and the Leper King himself.
The...
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Medieval skirmish game for 2 or more players.
AGER SANGUINIS (The Field of Blood, named after a battle lost by Roger of Antioch in 1119) presents the fierce fighting of the descendants of Bohemond of Taranto, son of Robert Guiscard and founder of the Principality of Antioch in northern Syria in the 12th century. The game brings...
€55.00
Medieval strategy game for 2 or more players.
THE ANARCHY is the name given to the civil war of 1135–1154 over the succession of Henry I Beauclerc, King of England and Duke of Normandy. It pitted Stephen of Blois against the 'Empress' Matilda, wife of Geoffrey Plantagenet. This war was a succession of sieges.
It is an opportunity to bring all the siege...
€57.50
Ancient strategy game for 2 or more players.
OPPIDUM is an immersive ancient strategy game that plunges you into the heart of the great battles of the 1st century BC.
Relive the historic clash between Celtic tribes and Roman legions across present-day France, Belgium, and England, as Caesar extends his empire.
Choose your side and play as Gauls,...
€20.83
Ancient strategy game for 2 or more players.
OPPIDUM (the name for Celtic fortified towns) is a simulation game set in modern-day France, Belgium, and England during the first century BC. It recreates the many battles fought by Celtic tribes to resist Caesar's ambitions.
The Celtic Oppidum is a set of 3 complementary map boards for the OPPIDUM game....