• Thumbnail for François Certain de Canrobert
    emigrated in 1791 and served against the French republic in the Armée de Condé (French: armée de Condé). His half-brother, Antoine, a brilliant officer and...
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    4th Tunisian Tirailleurs Regiment (category Armée d’Afrique)
    these regiments drew from serving soldiers already employed by the Ottoman Empire. The popular nickname "Turcos" bestowed on these units may owe its origin...
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    3rd Dragoon Regiment (France) (category Regiments of the First French Empire)
    The 3rd Dragoon Regiment (3e régiment de dragons or 3e RD) was a cavalry regiment in the French Army, it was active in various forms from 1649 to 1997...
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    Grande Armée was about 600,000 strong). Polish Lancers of the Vistula Legion were the first unit to cross the Neman river when the Grande Armée entered...
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    Verlag, 1921). Ludendorff, Paris, Chapelot, 1921. La Prise de Loivre par le 3e Battalion du 133e (16 avril 1917), Paris, Chapelot, 1922. Hindenburg et Ludendorff...
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  • Thumbnail for Alphonse Juin
    out in September 1939, Juin helped arrange the despatch of units from the Armée d'Afrique to help defend metropolitan France. On 4 December, he was given...
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    against an impending Ottoman attack. During this period, on 31 January, French naval forces in the region were reorganized as the 3e Escadre (3rd Squadron)...
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    time; Major-General Georges-Louis-Marie Brocard commander of the 3e Division Cuirassée (3e DCr), could not attack for lack of supplies and was sacked for...
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  • of the Canadian Armed Forces (French: Commandant(e) en chef des Forces armées canadiennes) rank insignia is a special sleeve braid embellished with the...
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    Jean Larrey (1861). Memoir of Baron Larrey, surgeon-in-chief of the Grande Armée, from the French. H. Renshaw. Retrieved 7 December 2012. Kingsnorth, Andrew...
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