* 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.

* 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 British and French armies dismounted many of their cavalry regiments and used them in infantry and other roles: the Life Guards for example spent the last months of the War as a machine gun corps ; and the Australian Light Horse served as light infantry during the Gallipoli campaign.

Earlier dragoon responsibilities for scouting and picket duty had passed to hussars and similar light cavalry corps in the French, Austrian, Prussian, and other armies.

It was not until word of France's ratification of emancipation arrived back in the colony that Toussaint Louverture and his corps of well-disciplined, battle-hardened former slaves came over to the French Republican side in early May 1794.

Many French were captured and incorporated into the Burmese Army as an elite gunner corps, under Chevalier Milard.

In the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, new techniques stressed the division of armies into all-arms corps that would march separately and only come together on the battlefield.

Napoleon sends the corps of d ' Erlon up the ridge where Wellington's men are sheltering from the French guns.

Unlike the Prussians in the movie, arriving at the right flank of the French force, General Bülow's 4th corps attacked at the rear-right of the French lines at the village of Plancenoit.

After a couple of hours, another Prussian corps arrived on the battlefield to link with the British army, sealing the fate of the French force.

With no sign of Villeneuve's fleet by 26 August, the three French army corps ' invasion force near Boulogne broke camp and marched to Germany, where it was later engaged.

Two Prussian corps attacked the French advanced guard thinking that it was the rearguard of the retreat of the French Army of the Meuse.

Despite this misjudgment the two Prussian corps held the entire French army for the whole day.

Leaving the Prussian First and Second Armies besieging Metz, Moltke formed the Army of the Meuse under the Crown Prince of Saxony by detaching three corps from them, and took this army and the Prussian Third Army northward, where they caught up with the French at Beaumont on 30 August.

After French soldiers had occupied Turin at the end of the 18th century and later abandoned it to the Kingdom of Piedmont, the corps of Royal Carabinieri was instituted under the Royal Patents of July 13, 1814.

Auerstädt involved a single French corps defeating the bulk of the Prussian army.

On 15 August 1944, two months after the Allied landings in Normandy ( Operation Overlord ), the Seventh United States Army under General Alexander Patch, with a Free French corps under General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, landed on the coast of the Var between St. Raphael and Cavalaire ( Operation Dragoon ).

We should also note that the democratic element was not as strong as the mayor's words may seem to imply: in fact, Poitiers was similar to other French cities, Paris, Nantes, Marseille, Limoges, La Rochelle, Dijon, in that the town's governing body ( corps de ville ) was " highly exclusive and oligarchical ": a small number of professional and family groups controlled most of the city offices.

The Allies prepared an attack that would involve 13 British and Imperial divisions and four French corps.

* 1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Irish rebels, with French assistance, establish the short-lived Republic of Connaught.

Proving more fortunate was his choice to break with the French and seek friendly ties with Libyan president Qaddafi, taking away the rebels ' principal source of supplies.

The Chadian government denied a warning issued by the French Embassy in N ' Djamena that a group of rebels was making its way through the Batha Prefecture in central Chad.

Elizabeth was persuaded to send a force into Scotland to aid the Protestant rebels, and though the campaign was inept, the resulting Treaty of Edinburgh of July 1560 removed the French threat in the north.

* In Indochina the French government was facing the Viet Minh communist rebels and lost its Indochinese colonies during the First Indochina War in 1954 after the Battle of Dien Bien Phu.

Investigators found that a bomb placed in the cargo hold by Chadian rebels backed by Libya was responsible for the explosion ; in 1999 a French court convicted six Libyans, including the former Libyan intelligence chief, Abdullah Senussi, in absentia, of planning and implementing the attack.

* 2003 – French DGSE personnel abort an operation to rescue Íngrid Betancourt from FARC rebels in Colombia, causing a political scandal when details are leaked to the press.

Alarmed about the French actions and its intention to re-establish empire in North America, Jefferson declared neutrality in relation to the Caribbean, refusing credit and other assistance to the French but allowing war contraband to get through to the rebels to prevent France from getting a foothold again.

Support by the sympathetic French government further bolstered Sassou Nguesso's rebels.

Mobs and rebels tried to attack the French forces after the airport raid.

* February 5 – The Huguenot rebels and the French government sign the Treaty of Paris, ending the second Huguenot rebellion.

* October 11 – Eleven French soldiers are killed in a shootout with rebels in Chad.

* May 18 – May 19 – Belgian and French paratroopers fly to Zaire to aid the fight against the rebels.

But Martin was far too deeply committed to Charles and French interests to heed them ; instead, he excommunicated the rebels, the Emperor Michael, and the Ghibellines in north Italy.

* September 12 – First Barons ' War in England ended by the Treaty of Kingston upon Thames: French and Scots are to leave England, and an amnesty is granted to rebels.

As a French ally he opposed Britain during the American Revolution in June 1779, supplying large quantities of weapons and munitions to the rebels and keeping one third of all the British forces in the Americas occupied defending Florida and what is now Alabama, which were ultimately recaptured by Spain.

In 1996 the British weekly The European carried an article by a French expert stating that " German civil and military intelligence services have been involved in training and equipping the rebels with the aim of cementing German influence in the Balkan area.

The expedition, though initially successful, would soon turn to a disaster, with the French commander and Bonaparte ’ s brother-in-law, Charles Leclerc, dying of yellow fever and almost his entire force destroyed by the disease combined with the fierce attacks by the rebels.

In 1856, Napoleon III's Second French Empire sent Robert-Houdin there, hoping that he might perform tricks that were far more impressive, thereby dissolving the excitement of the rebels.

But during the second Shaba invasion, the US played a much more active and decisive role by providing transportation and logistical support to the French and Belgian paratroopers that were deployed to aid Mobutu against the rebels.

During the Shaba invasions, France sided firmly with Mobutu: during the first Shaba invasion, France airlifted 1, 500 Moroccan troops to Zaire, and the rebels were repulsed ; a year later, during the second Shaba invasion, France itself would send French Foreign Legion paratroopers ( 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment ) to aid Mobutu ( along with Belgium ).

When the Dutch began to support the American rebels, this led to the fourth war, and the loss of the alliance made the Dutch Republic fatally vulnerable to the French.

Without his prestige the Angevin dynasty might not have survived the disastrous reign of John ; where the French and the rebels would not trust the English king's word, they would trust William.

By 1476, the Duke was regarded as a tyrant by his people, who were suffering from the French refusal to export their wine and bread to Burgundy, and who dreaded his terrible reprisals against rebels being unleashed on them.