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  2. Allies of World War I - Wikipedia

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    A pie-chart showing the military deaths of the Allied Powers. These are estimates of the cumulative number of different personnel in uniform 1914–1918, including army, navy and auxiliary forces. At any one time, the various forces were much smaller. Only a fraction of them were frontline combat troops.

  3. Entente Cordiale - Wikipedia

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    It should not be mistaken for the official Anglo-French military alliance, which was only established after the outbreak of World War I in 1914. [7] The main colonial agreement was the recognition that Egypt was fully in the British sphere of influence and likewise Morocco in France's , with the proviso that France's eventual dispositions for ...

  4. French Army in World War I - Wikipedia

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    French infantry pushing through enemy barbed wire, 1915. During World War I, France was one of the Triple Entente powers allied against the Central Powers.Although fighting occurred worldwide, the bulk of the French Army's operations occurred in Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Alsace-Lorraine along what came to be known as the Western Front, which consisted mainly of trench warfare.

  5. Allied leaders of World War I - Wikipedia

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    Map of the World showing the participants in World War I. Those fighting along with the Allied Powers (at one point or another) are depicted in blue, the Central Powers in orange, and neutral countries in grey. The Allied leaders of World War I were the political and military figures that fought for or supported the Allied Powers during World ...

  6. List of French divisions in World War I - Wikipedia

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    Les Armées françaises dans la Grande guerre [French Armies in the Great War] (in French). Vol. X-2 : Ordres de bataille des grandes unités : divisions d'infanterie, divisions de cavalerie. Paris: Impr. nationale. 1924.

  7. Triple Entente - Wikipedia

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    In turn, prominent French and British journalists, academics, and parliamentarians found the reactionary tsarist regime distasteful. Mistrust persisted even during wartime, with British and French politicians expressing relief when Tsar Nicholas II abdicated and was replaced by the Russian Provisional Government after the February Revolution in

  8. Anglo-French alliance - Wikipedia

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    Anglo-French alliance may refer to: Treaty of Paris (1657), an alliance against Spain; Anglo-French Alliance (1716–31), another alliance against Spain; Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata (1845-1850) Anglo-French joint invasion of Qing Dynasty during the Second Opium War (1856–1860) Entente Cordiale (1904) fought together in both ...

  9. Western Front tactics, 1917 - Wikipedia

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    In 1917, during the First World War, the armies on the Western Front continued to change their fighting methods, due to the consequences of increased firepower, more automatic weapons, decentralisation of authority and the integration of specialised branches, equipment and techniques into the traditional structures of infantry, artillery and cavalry.