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In 1924, the French government in a reply to a questionnaire from the International Labour Office, an agency of the League of Nations, reported 7,935,000 men mobilized and 1,400,000 dead and missing in World War I. [46] The names of the soldiers who died for France during World War I are listed on-line by the French government. [120]
For the French, the battle signified the strength and fortitude of the French Army. [60] Many military historians consider Verdun the "most demanding" and the "greatest" battle in history. [60] The German attack on Verdun began with one million troops, led by Crown Prince Wilhelm, facing only about 200,000 French soldiers. The following day ...
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French Wars of Religion: 2–4 million [43] 1562–1598 French catholics vs Huguenots: France Korean War: 2.5–3.5 million [44] [20] 1950–1953 North Korea and allies vs. South Korea and allies Korean Peninsula Hundred Years' War: 2.3–3.5 million [45] [46] [28] 1337–1453 House of Valois vs. House of Plantagenet: Western Europe Soviet ...
On August 22, 1914, during the Battle of the Frontiers, five separate French armies engaged the German invaders independently of each other. Across all those battlefields, on that single day, 27,000 French soldiers lost their lives protecting their country. [1] The term casualty in warfare is often misunderstood. It often refers not to those ...
French military personnel killed in World War I (204 P) Pages in category "French casualties of World War I" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
French Somme casualties were 194,451 and German casualties were c. 445,322, to which should be added 27 per cent for woundings, which would have been counted as casualties using British criteria; Anglo-French casualties on the Somme were over 600,000 and German casualties were under 600,000. [72]
Two French Saint-Chamond railway guns, 8.1 mi (13 km) to the south-west at Baleycourt, fired 16 in (400 mm) super-heavy shells, each weighing 1 short ton (0.91 t). [74] The French had identified about 800 German guns on the right bank capable of supporting the 34th, 54th, 9th and 33rd Reserve divisions, with the 10th and 5th divisions in ...