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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.
The 1917 French Army mutinies took place amongst French Army troops on the Western Front in northern France during World War I. They started just after the unsuccessful and costly Second Battle of the Aisne, the main action in the Nivelle Offensive in April 1917. The new French commander of the armies in France, General Robert Nivelle, had ...
Regiments. French army formations in World War I include: 1st Army. 2nd Army. 3rd Army. 4th Army. 5th Army. 6th Army. 7th Army.
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.
Félix Amiot. Jacques Ancel. Geoffroy d'Andigné. Raoul Anglès. Philippe Henri Joseph d'Anselme. François Anthoine. Robert Louis Antral. Pierre Appell. Louis Aragon.
French troops entering Essen during the occupation of the Ruhr. On 11 January 1923, French and Belgian troops occupied the industrial Ruhr district east of the Rhine after Germany fell behind in the reparations payments required of it under the Treaty of Versailles. Military law was imposed, local governments were placed under French control ...
German infantry on the battlefield, 7 August 1914. The Western Front was the place where the most powerful military forces in Europe, the German and French armies, met and where the First World War was decided. [ 14 ] At the outbreak of the war, the German Army, with seven field armies in the west and one in the east, executed a modified ...
From 1907 through 1914, the French and British armies collaborated on highly detailed plans for mobilizing a British Expeditionary Force of 100,000 combat troops to be very quickly moved to France, and sent to the front in less than two weeks. [3] Grey insisted that world peace was in the best interests of Britain and the British Empire. [4]