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1 day ago · The French army's situation was critical – the British were threatening French control of Egypt after their victory at the Battle of the Nile, Murad Bey and his army were still in the field in Upper Egypt, and the generals Menou and Dugua were only just able to maintain control of Lower Egypt. The Ottoman peasants had common cause with those rising against the French in Cairo – the whole ...
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3 days ago · In their plan for the invasion of France and the Low Countries, the Germans kept General Wilhelm von Leeb’s Army Group C facing the Maginot Line so as to deter the French from diverting forces from it, while launching Bock’s Army Group B into the basin of the Lower Maas River north of Liège and Rundstedt’s Army Group A into the Ardennes.
4 days ago · It made the army very strong and loyal. What was the main achievement of France's finance minister, Jean Baptiste Colbert? Enriched the economy by putting high tariffs on imported goods and regulating trade.
2 days ago · Gilles de Rais (c. 1405 – 26 October 1440), Baron de Rais, was a knight and lord from Brittany, Anjou and Poitou, a leader in the French army during the Hundred Years' War, and a companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc.
2 days ago · The affair divided France into pro-republican, anticlerical Dreyfusards and pro-Army, mostly Catholic anti-Dreyfusards, embittering French politics and encouraging radicalisation. [2] The press played a crucial role in exposing information and in shaping and expressing public opinion on both sides of the conflict.
1 day ago · A flier accompanying the screening explained that it provided an insight into how the French military could “win a battle against terrorism and lose the war of ideas.” In the eyes of the US Department of Defense, an inability to win over the hearts and minds of the Algerian population had undone the perceived military success of French counterinsurgency efforts against the Front de ...
4 days ago · World War II, conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during the years 1939–45. The principal belligerents were the Axis powers — Germany, Italy, and Japan —and the Allies— France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, China.
