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The military history of France represents a massive panorama of conflicts and struggles extending for more than 2,000 years over areas encompassing modern France, Europe, and European territorial possessions overseas. Gallo-Roman conflict predominated from 400 BCE to 50 BCE, with the Romans emerging victorious in the conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar. After the decline of the Roman Empire, a Germanic tribe known as the Franks took control of Gaul by defeating competing tribes. France emerged victorious from the Hundred Years War, a dynastical struggle from 1337 to 1453 between it and England. In the eighteenth century, global competition with Great Britain led to defeat in the French and Indian War, where France lost its North American holdings and India, but consolation came in the form of the American Revolutionary War, where massive French aid led to America's independence. Internal political upheaval eventually led to 23 years of nearly continuous, but mostly successful, war in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. France reached the zenith of its power during this period, but by 1815 following the Battle of Waterloo it had been restored to its pre-Revolutionary borders. Following defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, Franco-German rivalry reasserted itself again in World War I, this time France emerging as the winner. Tensions over the Versailles Treaty led to the Second World War, where it was defeated in the Battle of France. The Allies eventually emerged victorious over the Germans, however, and due to Free France's re-entry into the war, France was given an occupation zone in Germany. Today, French military intervention is most often seen in its former colonies and with its NATO allies in hot spots around the world. (More...)
The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of major conflicts, beginning in 1792 and lasting until the Treaty of Amiens in 1802, fought between the French Revolutionary government and several European states. They are usually divided between the First Coalition (1792–1797) and the Second Coalition (1798–1801). Additionally, France was at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain continuously from 1793 to 1802.
Marked by French revolutionary fervour and military innovations, the campaigns saw the French Revolutionary Armies defeating a number of opposing coalitions and expanding French control to the Low Countries, Italy, and the Rhineland. The wars were of titanic proportions, mainly due to the application of modern mass conscription. (More...)
La Mademoiselle Soixante-quinze in a World War I French propaganda poster that reads "Honor our glorious 75." The famous French artillery gun saw extensive use in World War I, but was so versatile and well designed, that many combatants, including Germany, the United States and France still used this model in World War II as a part of their artillery park.
The 1st Foreign Engineer Regiment (French: 1er régiment étranger de génie) (1er REG) is a Military engineer regiment in the French Foreign Legion. It is a part of the 6th Light Armoured Brigade. The regiment is station in Laudon.
It was created on 1 October, 1939 as the 6th Foreign Infantry Regiment. The manpower came from 3 battalions of the 1st Foreign Infantry Regiment and one from 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment. It was disbanded 1 January 1942 and its soldiers were transeferred into the 1st Foreign Regiment and Foreign Legion depots. (More...)
- ...that the French Foreign Legion was created in 1831 to enable foreigners to enlist in the French Army after the July Revolution?
- ...that it was Napoleon who recalled Captain Bruix, after he was sacked for being a noble, to continue his distinguished naval career?
Jean Victor Marie Moreau (February 14, 1763 – September 2, 1813) was a French general. He was born at Morlaix in Brittany. His father was an avocat in good practice, and instead of allowing him to enter the army, as he attempted to do, insisted on his studying law at the University of Rennes. Young Moreau showed no inclination for law, but revelled in the freedom of a student's life. Instead of taking his degree, he continued to live with the students as their hero and leader, and formed them into a sort of army, which he commanded as their provost. When 1789 came, he commanded the students in the daily affrays which took place at Rennes between the young noblesse and the populace.
In 1791 Moreau was elected a lieutenant colonel of the volunteers of Ille-et-Vilaine. With them he served under Dumouriez, and in 1793 the good order of his battalion, and his own martial character and republican principles secured his promotion as general of brigade. Carnot, who had an eye for the true qualities of a general, promoted Moreau to be general of division early in 1794, and gave him command of the right wing of the army under Pichegru, in Flanders. (More...)
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Eléonor Rouxel de Grancey • Christian Louis de Montmorency-Luxembourg • Charles Eugène de Lévis-Charlus • Louis de Brancas de Forcalquier de Céreste • Louis Armand de Brinchanteau de Nangis • Louis de Gand de Mérode de Montmorency • Jean-Baptiste de Durfort de Duras • Jean-Baptiste Desmarets • Charles-Louis-Auguste Fouquand of Belle-Isle • Jean-Baptiste Louis Andrault de Maulévrier • Claude Guillaume Testu de Balincourt • Philippe Charles de La Fare • Guy Claude Roland de Montmorency-Laval • Louis Claude de La Mothe-Houdancourt • Ulrich Friedrich Waldemar von Löwendahl • Jean Hector de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg • Jean Charles de la Ferté • Gaston Pierre de Lévis-Mirepoix • Ladislas Ignace de Bercheny • Guy Michel de Durfort de Lorge • Louis de Brienne de Conflans d'Armentières • Jean Paul Timoléon de Cossé Brissac • Charles de Fitz-James • Emmanuel Félicité de Durfort de Duras • Louis Nicolas du Muy • Claude Louis de Saint-Germain • Guy André Pierre de Montmorency-Laval • Augustin Joseph de Mailly • Charles Just de Beauvau-Craon • Noël Jourda de Vaux • Jacques Philippe de Choiseul-Stainville • Charles Eugène de La Croix de Castries • Charles du Houx de Viomesnil • Bernard Pierre Magnan • Esprit Victor Boniface de Castellane • Jacques Louis César Randon • Serge Asher-Ravanel • Raoul Boulanger • Max Hymans • Julien Meline • Henri Frager • Dorothy Tartiere • Hugues de Tappie
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- Louis Vincent Le Blond de Saint-Hilaire • First Battle of the Marne • Battle of Verdun • Second Battle of the Marne • Martha Desrumeaux • Battle_of_Bapaume • Battle_of_Lutterberg • Battle_of_Freiberg • Siege of Groningen • Second Battle of Orleans (1870) • Georges Loustaunau-Lacau • Claude d'Annebaut • Philippe de Culant • Jean de Lescun • Jacques de Trivulce • Charles II d'Amboise de Chaumont • Robert Stuart d'Aubigny • Gaspard I de Coligny • Thomas de Foix-Lescun • Robert III de La Marck • Gaspard de Saulx • Charles de Choiseul-Praslin • Antoine III de Gramont • Jean de Gassion • Armand-Nompar de Caumont, duc de la Force • Jacques Henri de Durfort de Duras • Guy Aldonce de Durfort de Lorges • René de Froulay de Tessé • Pierre de Montesquiou d'Artagnan • Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon • Charles-Armand de Gontaut, duc de Biron • Gaspard de Clermont-Tonnerre • Louis Antoine de Gontaut • Louis Charles César Le Tellier, duc d'Estrées • Hubert de Brienne, Comte de Conflans • Jean Isidore Harispe • Marie-Madeleine Fourcade • Battle of Zeeland
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