On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.

During Operation Dynamo — the evacuation of 330, 000 BEF and French troops to Britain — Montgomery assumed command of the II Corps.

Following the downfall of Czechoslovakia and occupation of its Czech part by Nazi Germany in 1939, Czechoslovak units and formations served with the Polish Army ( Czechoslovak Legion ), the French Army, the Royal Air Force, the British Army ( the 1st Czechoslovak Armoured Brigade ), and the Red Army ( I Corps ).

The King's Royal Rifle Corps was raised in the American colonies in 1756 as the 62nd ( Royal American ) Regiment to defend the thirteen colonies against attack by the French and their native American allies.

* 1942 – World War II: French resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyst generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers.

French Engineer Corps during the Siege of Antwerp ( 1832 ) | Siege of Antwerp.

** French Resistance Coup in Algiers: 400 French civil resistants neutralize the Vichyist XIXth Army Corps and the Vichyist generals ( Juin, Darlan, etc.

* April 25 – WWI: Start of the Gallipoli Campaign ( lasting until January 1916 ): Landing at Anzac Cove by Australian and New Zealand Army Corps and landing at Cape Helles by British and French troops to begin the Allied invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire.

In some countries, some other officials also wear uniforms in their duties ; such is the case of the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service or the French prefects.

German and French military style band types can even extend to Corps of Drums and fanfare bands staffed full-time by civilian musicians, and even to the Bagad bands in Brittany and outside France made up of bagpipers.

* Patton Hall, military hangar at the Saumur Armour Museum on loan from the French Armoured Corps and Cavalry School, Saumur, France, formerly used as a tank-restoration hall.

Ignoring Moltke's plan again, both German armies attacked Frossard's French 2nd Corps, fortified between Spicheren and Forbach.

Four days after their retreat, on 16 August a grossly outnumbered Prussian force of 30, 000 men of III Corps ( of the 2nd Army ) under General Konstantin von Alvensleben, found the French Army near Vionville, east of Mars-la-Tour.

The French were routed and the III Corps captured Vionville, blocking any further escape attempts to the west.

By 14: 30, General Steinmetz, the commander of the First Army, unilaterally launched his VIII Corps across the Mance Ravine in which the Prussian infantry were soon pinned down by murderous rifle and mitrailleuse fire from the French positions.

By then, the Prussians of the 1st Guards Infantry Division and the XII and II Corps captured St. Privat forcing the decimated French forces to withdraw.

General De Wimpffen, the commander of the French V Corps in reserve, hoped to launch a combined infantry and cavalry attack against the Prussian XI Corps.

The French cavalry, commanded by General Marguerite, launched three desperate attacks on the nearby village of Floing where the Prussian XI Corps was concentrated.

The attack had most success on the left ( north ), in front of XIV Corps and the French First Army.

The British Fifth Army undertook minor operations 20 – 22 October to maintain pressure on the Germans while the Canadian Corps prepared for their assault, as well as supporting the French attack at Malmaison.

In 1794, during the Battle of Fleurus, the French Aerostatic Corps balloon L ' Entreprenant remained afloat for nine hours.

The " Days of April " ( journées d ' avril ) is a name appropriated in French history to a series of insurrections at Lyons, Paris and elsewhere, against the government of Louis Philippe in 1834, which led to violent repressive measures, and to a famous trial known as the procès d ' avril.

* 1651 – André Dacier, French scholar ( d. 1722 )

* 1671 – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet ( d. 1741 )

* 1672 – André Cardinal Destouches, French composer ( d. 1749 )

* 1706 – Louis de Cahusac, French playwright and librettist, and Freemason ( d. 1759 )

* 1741 – Nicolas Chamfort, French writer ( d. 1794 )

* 1820 – Nadar, French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist ( d. 1910 )

* 1826 – Gustave Moreau, French painter ( d. 1898 )

* 1851 – Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer ( d. 1932 )

* 1861 – Stanislas de Guaita, French occultist ( d. 1897 )

* 1898 – Jeanne Hébuterne, French artist, the wife of Amedeo Modigliani ( d. 1920 )

* 1902 – Julien Torma, French writer, playwright and poet ( d. 1933 )

* 1526 – Muretus, French humanist ( d. 1585 )

* 1713 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer ( d. 1796 )

* 1748 – Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist ( d. 1836 )

* 1869 – Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer ( d. 1922 )

* 1924 – Raymond Barre, French politician, Prime Minister of France ( d. 2007 )

* 1623 – Fran &# 231 ; ois de Laval, French bishop ( d. 1708 )

* 1651 – Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, French educational reformer and Catholic saint ( d. 1719 )

* 1664 – Fran &# 231 ; ois Louis, Prince of Conti, French general ( d. 1709 )

* 1723 – Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist ( d. 1806 )

* 1864 – Jean, duc Decazes, French aristocrat and sportsman ( d. 1912 )

* 1877 – Léon Flameng, French cyclist ( d. 1917 )

* 1895 – Philippe Panneton, French Canadian physician, diplomat, and writer ( d. 1960 )