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The French Army, officially known as the Land Army (French: Armée de terre, lit. ' Army of Land ' ), is the principal land warfare force of France , and the largest component of the French Armed Forces ; it is responsible to the Government of France , alongside the French Navy , French Air and Space Force , and the National Gendarmerie . [ 3 ]
The Troupes de Marine (French pronunciation: [tʁup də maʁin], lit. ' Marine Troops ') or TDM, sometimes simply referred to as "French Marines" in English, are one of the major components of the French Army and comprise several specialties: infantry, airborne, armoured cavalry, artillery, engineering, and transmissions (signals).
The Battle of Quatre Bras was fought on 16 June 1815, as a preliminary engagement to the decisive Battle of Waterloo that occurred two days later. The battle took place near the strategic crossroads of Quatre Bras [a] and was contested between elements of the Duke of Wellington's Anglo-allied army and the left wing of Napoleon Bonaparte's French Armée du Nord under Marshal Michel Ney.
In command of an army. OF-8 Général de corps d'armée: Army corps general: In command of an army corps. [note 1] OF-7 Général de division: Divisional general: In command of a division. OF-6 Général de brigade: Brigade general: In command of a brigade, or of a région in the Gendarmerie.
The Territorial Army was created by law on 27 July 1872 which established the principles of the military reserve. [1] This law established a military service obligation of twenty years for French men as follows: five years in the active army; four years in the Army Reserve; five years in the Territorial Army; six years in the Territorial Army ...
The March to the Marne: The French Army 1871–1914 Cambridge University Press (2003) ISBN 978-0521545921; Scott, Samuel F. From Yorktown to Valmy: the transformation of the French Army in an age of revolution (University Press of Colorado, 1998) Thoral, Marie-Cécile. From Valmy to Waterloo: France at War, 1792–1815 (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2011)
Gen de Division Prince Jérôme Bonaparte. 1st Brigade Gen de Brigade Pierre François Bauduin. 1st Btn, 1st Legere Regt (625 approx) 2nd Btn, 1st Legere Regt (625 approx) 3rd Btn, 1st Legere Regt (600 approx) 1st Btn, 3rd Line Regt (600 approx) 2nd Btn, 3rd Line Regt (600 approx) 2nd Brigade Gen de Brigade Soye 1st Btn, 1st Line Regt (625 approx)
A History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789 to the Restoration of the Bourbons, New York: A.S. Barnes, 1850. OCLC 85023438. Blanning, Timothy. The French Revolutionary Wars. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, ISBN 0-340-56911-5. Broughton, Tony. Regimental Histories of the Carabiniers.