* 1942 – French prisoner of war General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Festung Königstein.

* 1960 – Henri Guisan, Swiss army officer, General of the Swiss Army during World War II ( b. 1874 )

This rock was chosen by General Guillaume Henri Dufour as the reference point for surveying in Switzerland.

* 1940 – General Henri Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.

After marching into Damascus in July 1920 to put down an anti-colonial rising, French General Henri Gouraud is reputed to have stood at Saladin's grave, kicked it and said: " The Crusades have ended now!

Under General Henri Guisan, the Swiss army prepared for mass mobilization of militia forces against invasion, and prepared strong, well-stockpiled positions high in the Alps known as the Réduit.

General definition of surface area was sought by Henri Lebesgue and Hermann Minkowski at the turn of the twentieth century.

Henri Delaunay was the first General Secretary and Ebbe Schwartz the first president.

* General Henri Winkelman

* July 25 – General Henri Guisan addresses the officer corps of the Swiss army at Rütli resolving to resist any invasion of the country.

General Henri Giraud was incredulous when he heard of Patton's dismissal by Eisenhower in late 1945, and invited him to Paris to be decorated by President Charles de Gaulle at a state banquet.

Following the capitulation of Solothurn on 2 March 1798, the French General Balthasar Alexis Henri Antoine von Schauenburg set up a provisional government on the following day.

The 10th parachute division ( 10e Division Parachutiste, 10e DP ) came under the command of General Jacques Massu and General Henri Sauvagnac took over the 25th Parachute Division ( 25e Division Parachutiste, 25e DP ).

Therefore, you will have, within your power as Lieutenant General of the Kingdom, to proclaim the accession of Henri V to the throne.

* Henri de la Tour d ' Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne ( 1611 – 1675 ), better known as Turenne, Marshal General of France under Louis XIV and one of France's greatest military leaders.

* General Henri Giraud 1949

* Henri de La Tour d ' Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne ( 1611 – 1675 ), Maréchal General de France.

With help from the Resistance, the Allies also succeeded in slipping French General Henri Giraud out of Vichy France on HMS Seraph, intending to offer him the post of commander in chief of French forces in North Africa after the invasion.

As he wrote to Henri Fantin-Latour, " General upheaval !!

The opposition to the regency was led by Henri de Bourbon, Duke of Enghien, who pressured Marie into convoking the Estates General in 1614 and 1615, the last time they would meet in France until the opening events of the French Revolution.

The liberation of Corsica in September 1943, a clear demonstration of the strength of a communist insurgency, was accomplished by the FTP, an effective force not yet integrated into the Secret Army and not involved with General Henri Giraud, the Free French, or the political unification of the Résistance.

In November 1942, the Allies invaded Vichy-controlled French North Africa, and many Vichy troops joined the Free French, with General Henri Giraud at their head.

The reality is more complex as the French forces of the Army of Africa under General Henri Giraud did take part in the fight against the Axis, for example in Tunisia in early 1943, without any relationship with Charles de Gaulle's organization.

By July 1941, General Henri Dentz and his Vichy Army of the Levant were defeated.

Free French forces faced Vichy Army of the Levant under General Henri Dentz during the Allied campaign set in French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon.

It was an armistice signed between Allied forces in the Middle East under the command of British General Henry Maitland Wilson, and Vichy France forces in Syria and Lebanon, under the command of General Henri Dentz, Commander in Chief of the Army of the Levant ( Armée du Levant ) and as High Commissioner of the Levant.

Having lost control of the Northern Desert and the Euphrates Province and being threatened with the imminent loss of Beirut, General Dentz decided to ask for an armistice.

General Dentz declared himself ready to engage in talks on the basis of a memorandum presented to him that morning by the United States Consul at Beirut on behalf of the British Government.

The proposals presented by General Dentz were considered at once by the Middle East War Council.

General de Verdillac represented the Army of the Levant for the Armistice talks instead of his superior commander, General Dentz.

The 21 July 1941 issue of Time Magazine indicates that General Dentz sent General de Verdillac to the talks because de Verdillac was more pro-British and less anti-De Gaulle than Dentz.

On July 14 General Henri Fernand Dentz, Vichy's High Commissioner to the Levant States, signed Syria and Lebanon away to the conquering British and to the Free French Forces.

He took control of Syria for the Free French after the defeat of Vichy General Henri Dentz and the Armistice of Saint Jean d ' Acre.

In November 1942, Major General Patton commanded the Western Task Force of the U. S. Army, which landed on the coast of Vichy French-held Morocco in Operation Torch for the North African Campaign.

She publicly endorsed General Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War and admired Vichy leader Marshal Philippe Pétain, translating some of the latter's speeches into English.

A few minutes after midnight in the early hour of 31 July, warned by General Gresseau that Parisians were scheming to attack the residence, Charles X decided to leave Saint-Cloud and seek refuge in Versailles with his family, and the Court, with the exception of the duc d ’ Angoulême who stayed behind with the troops, and the duchesse d ’ Angoulême, who was taking the waters at Vichy.

Protests followed from Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel ; General Gleiniger, German commander in Limoges ; and the Vichy government.

Major General Mark W. Clark — one of Eisenhower's senior commanders — was dispatched to Cherchell in Algeria aboard the British submarine — passing itself off as an American submarine — and met with these Vichy French officers on 21 October 1942.

Vichy General Henri Giraud rejoined the Allies, but he lacked the authority that was required and de Gaulle kept his leadership of the Free French, despite American objections.

In late 1942, after the Battle of Madagascar, the Vichy French forces — under Governor-General Armand Léon Annet — were defeated and Free French General Paul Legentilhomme was appointed High Commissioner for Madagascar.

In early June Wavell sent a force under General Wilson to invade Syria and Lebanon, responding to the help given by the Vichy France authorities there to the Iraq Government during the Anglo-Iraqi War.

Although in June 1940 articles in Action Française signed by Maurras, Léon Daudet and Maurice Pujo praised General Charles de Gaulle, Maurras quickly came to acclaim the fall of the Third Republic, replaced by Marshal Philippe Pétain's Vichy France, as a " divine surprise ".

Hull and Roosevelt also maintained relations with Vichy France which Hull credits with allowing General Maxime Weygand's forces to join allied forces in the North African campaign against Germany.

By April 1945 U. S. General George S. Patton's army was near Sigmaringen so the Vichy ministers were forced to seek their own salvation.

After the fall of the Vichy regime in Algeria, General Henri Giraud, Free French commander in chief in North Africa, slowly rescinded repressive Vichy laws despite opposition by colon extremists.

In 1940, General Charles de Gaulle, the leader of the French government in exile, pledged to the WJC that all measures taken by the Vichy regime against the Jews would be repudiated upon France's liberation.

General Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French in opposition to Pétain's Vichy regime.

The military history of France during World War II covers the period from 1939 until 1940, which witnessed French military participation under the French Third Republic ( established in Paris then Bordeaux ), and the period from 1940 until 1945, which was marked by mainland and overseas military administration and influence struggles for the French colonies ( under the command of Admiral François Darlan ) between the French State under Marshal Philippe Pétain ( Vichy then Sigmaringen ), the Free French Forces under General Charles de Gaulle ( London ) and the Army of Africa under General Henri Giraud ( Algiers ).

On the night of 7 November − the eve of Operation Torch − pro-Allied French General Antoine Béthouart attempted a coup d ' état against the Vichy French command in Morocco, so that he could surrender to the Allies the next day.

The Battle of Dakar, also known as Operation Menace, was an unsuccessful attempt by the Allies to capture the strategic port of Dakar in French West Africa ( modern-day Senegal ), which was under Vichy French control, and to install the Free French under General Charles de Gaulle there.

Author of the L ' Appel of 18 June 1940, and founder and leader of the Free French Forces, General Charles de Gaulle is the symbol of the French Resistance to the Nazi occupation and the Vichy government.