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The French army recruited French Forces of the Interior ( de Gaulle's formal name for resistance fighters ) to continue the war until the final defeat of Germany ; this army numbered 300, 000 men by September 1944 and 370, 000 by Spring 1945.
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For a time it appeared that a common European army might be created, but the project for a European Defense Community was rejected by the French National Assembly in 1954.
* 1759 – Seven Years ' War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French.
Johnson forced the French out of Mexico by sending an army to the border and issuing an ultimatum.
* 1813 – At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bülow repulse the French army.
* 1809 – The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: the Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France and driven over the Danube in Regensburg.
* 1809 – Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.
* 1677 – The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops.
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.
* 1522 – Combined forces of Spain and the Papal States defeat a French and Venetian army at the Battle of Bicocca.
* 1544 – French forces defeat a Spanish army at the Battle of Ceresole.
* 1809 – Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmühl.
The reputation of the French army also suffered badly.
Local German peasants, angry at French plundering, compounded Tallard's problems, leading Mérode-Westerloo to bemoan – " the enraged peasantry killed several thousand of our men before the army was clear of the Black Forest.
A French reconnaissance under the Marquis de Silly went forward to probe the enemy, but were driven off by Allied troops who had deployed to cover the pioneers of the advancing army, labouring to bridge the numerous streams in the area and improve the passage leading westwards to Höchstädt.
The rest of Marlborough's army, waiting in their ranks on the forward slope, were also forced to bear the cannonade from the French artillery, suffering 2, 000 casualties before the attack could even be begun.
French and recruited
Equally short-lived, but still very important, was the World Film Company, which recruited most of the French directors, cameramen, and designers who had previously been working at the Fort Lee, New Jersey studios for Pathé and Éclair.
During the French and Indian War ( part of the Seven Years ' War — 1757 – 1763 ), the British deported the Acadians and recruited New England Planters to resettle the colony.
Because the population of Côte d ' Ivoire was insufficient to meet the labor demand on French plantations and forests, which were among the greatest users of labor in French West Africa, the French recruited large numbers of workers from Upper Volta to work in Côte d ' Ivoire.
Over a five-month campaign, the German armies defeated the newly recruited French armies in a series of battles fought across northern France.
The Zouaves of the French Army were first raised in Algeria in 1831 with one and later two battalions, initially recruited solely from the Zouaoua ( or Zwāwa ), a tribe of Berbers located in the mountains of the Jurjura range ( see Kabyles ).
About a third of the infantry regiments of the French Royal Army prior to the French Revolution were recruited from outside France.
On January 1, 1757, Francis and his brother Job were recruited by Captain John Postell to serve in the French and Indian War and to drive the Cherokee Indians away from the border.
The CTE permitted prisoners to leave the internment camps if they agreed to go work in factories in Germany, but as many as sixty thousand Republicans who were recruited to the labor service managed to escape, and, instead, they joined the French Résistance.
Many of the networks recruited and controlled by the British and Americans were not perceived by the French as being especially interested in establishing a united or integrated Résistance operation, and the guerrilla groups controlled by the communists were only slightly more engaged by the idea of a Résistance " umbrella " organization.
In April 2001, the Minister of Education, Jack Lang, admitted formally that for more than two centuries, the political powers of the French government had repressed regional languages, and announced that bilingual education would, for the first time, be recognized, and bilingual teachers recruited in French public schools.
The town of Darien ( originally known as New Inverness ) was founded in January 1736 by Scottish Highlanders recruited by James Oglethorpe to act as settler-soldiers protecting the frontiers of Georgia from the Spanish in Florida, the French in the Alabama basin and their Indian allies.
In 1831 disbanded veterans of the Swiss regiments and another foreign unit, the Hohenlohe Regiment, were recruited into the newly raised French Foreign Legion for service in Algeria.
Luminaries such as sociologist Daniel Bell, the French political philosopher Raymond Aron and novelist Ralph Ellison, author of the 1952 classic Invisible Man, were recruited by the institute.
She recruited Jean-Jacques Goldman, Gildas Arzel, Eric Benzi, and Jacques Veneruso, with whom she had previously worked on two of her best-selling French albums S ' il suffisait d ' aimer and D ' eux.
While music was at the heart of the curriculum, Cornish recruited opportunistically where she saw talent, and the school soon offered classes as diverse as eurhythmics, French language, painting, dance ( folk and ballet ), and theater.
After WWII, French GCMA authorities recruited Vang Pao as a lieutenant during the First Indochina War to combat the Viet Minh ( archive video by Col. Jean Sassi ).
In the mid-1920s, France recruited some 10 former pilots of the Lafayette Escadrille for service in the French Army of Africa, aiming to forestall American public and diplomatic support for the Rif tribes rebelling against French and Spanish colonial rule.
Through Weil, second in command of the Juggler network of the SOE F Section networks, both sisters were recruited into the French Resistance.
French and Forces
In Berlin he published his views of the chemical laws of nature in German and this was issued in French translation ( Paris, 1813 ) under the title Recherches Sur l'identite Des Forces chimiques et electriques, a work held in very high esteem by the new generation of research chemists.
* 1513 – Battle of Guinegate ( Battle of the Spurs ) – King Henry VIII of England and his Imperial allies defeat French Forces who are then forced to retreat.
The BSA is inspired by the French Special Forces.
The Central African Armed Forces ( French: Forces armées centrafricaines ( FACA )) are the armed forces of the Central African Republic, established after independence in 1960.
French forces and the Opération des Nations Unies en Côte d ' Ivoire are a significant military factor in the country as of late 2011 ( see International Forces below ).
A mutual defense accord signed with France in April 1961 provides for the stationing of French Armed Forces troops in Côte d ' Ivoire.
* 1861 – Forces led by Nguyen Trung Truc, an anti-colonial guerrilla leader in southern Vietnam, sink the French lorcha L ' Esperance.
The French Armed Forces encompass the French Army, the French Navy, the French Air Force and the National Gendarmerie.
The Allies, including the government in exile's Free French Forces and later a liberated French nation, eventually emerged victorious over the Axis Powers.
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This government was later removed by the Free French Forces in August 1944.
# REDIRECT French Armed Forces
) is a military service wing of the French Army established in 1831, unique because it was exclusively created for foreign nationals willing to serve in the French Armed Forces.
The Republic of Guinea Armed Forces ( French: Forces armées guinéennes ) are the armed forces of Guinea.
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French brigadier general Charles de Gaulle declared himself on Radio Londres to be the head of a rival government in exile, and gathered the Free French Forces around him, finding support in some French colonies and recognition from Britain and the USA.
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