The 53rd Infantry Division was a French Army formation during World War I and World War II.
The 19th Army Corps was a corps of the French army. In December 1870, the Tours delegation created the 19th Army Corps which was formed in Alençon. It was recreated by decree of the JO of August 13, 1874, it brought together the various military units of Algeria. It constituted the nucleus of the Army of Africa.
The Tenth Army was a Field army of the French Army during World War I and World War II.
The 2nd Army Corps was first formed before World War I. During World War II it fought in the Campaign for France in 1940 and during the 1944–45 campaigns in southern France, the Vosges Mountains, Alsace, and southwestern Germany. It was active under the First Army for many years after World War II.
The Armée d'Orient (AO) was a field army of the French Army during World War I who fought on the Macedonian front.
Guy Pedroncini (1924–2006) was a French academic and military historian specialising in the First World War, and notable as the biographer of Philippe Pétain and for his work on the French army mutinies of 1917. He was born in Paris on 17 May 1924 and died on 11 July 2006, at the age of 82.
The 9th Army Corps was a large military formation of the French Army, constituted during the Second French Empire, and during the First and the Second World War.
Army Group 3 was a French Army formation during the Second World War, stationed along the river Rhine manning the Maginot line.
During World War I, both Britain and France sent military forces to Italy in October 1917.
The Moroccan Division or the 1st Moroccan Division of 1914, initially the Marching Division of Morocco was an infantry division of France's Army of Africa which participated in World War I.
33rd Infantry Division was a French Army infantry division. At the outbreak of World War I it was placed in 17th Army Corps, part of 4th Army.
The Dépôt de la Guerre was France's military archive and cartography department, set up in 1688 under Louis XIV and expanded during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
The 31st Army Corps was a corps of the French army, created at the start of the First World War. From the date of its creation until June 1916, the army corps occupied front sectors in Lorraine. In June, the 31st Army Corps fought on the left bank of the Meuse during the Battle of Verdun. Subsequently, it occupied a front line sector in the Argonne, before being transported to the Italian Front as a reinforcement after the Italian defeat at the Battle of Caporetto, alongside the 10th Army (France). In March 1918, the army corps was redeployed to France, to face the German offensives, it was situated on the Somme front until the end of the war.
The tirailleurs malgaches were a corps of French colonial infantry established in Madagascar.
156th Infantry Division was an infantry division of the French Army during the First World War. It was deployed overseas, seeing action during the Gallipoli campaign, and thereafter on the Salonika front, fighting alongside British troops in both theatres of war. It was sent to the Crimea in December 1918 as part of the Army of the Danube.
122nd Infantry Division was an infantry division of the French Army during the First World War. It was deployed overseas, seeing action on the Salonika front, fighting alongside British troops. It was sent to the Crimea in December 1918 as part of the Army of the Danube.
57th Infantry Division was an infantry division of the French Army during the First World War. It was deployed overseas, seeing action on the Salonika front, fighting alongside British troops. It was sent to the Crimea in December 1918 as part of the Army of the Danube.
The 2nd Armoured Division is a unit of the French Army formed during World War II that took part in the May-June 1940 Battle of France.
Pierre-Étienne de Perier was a French divisional general, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, and magazine editor.
17th Colonial Infantry Division was an infantry division of the French Army during the First World War. It was deployed overseas, seeing action during the Gallipoli campaign, and thereafter on the Salonika front, fighting alongside British troops in both theatres of war. It was sent to the Crimea in December 1918 as part of the Army of the Danube.
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