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5th Dragoon Regiment (France)

Index 5th Dragoon Regiment (France)

The 5th Dragoon Regiment (5e Régiment de Dragons or 5e RD) is a cavalry unit of the French Army, created under the Ancien Régime in 1656 and reactivated in 2015. [1]

151 relations: Aisne, Alps, Amiens, AMX-13, AMX-30, Ancien Régime, André Sordet, Antoine Nompar de Caumont, Antoine V de Gramont, Army of Italy (France), Army of Sambre and Meuse, Army of the Rhine (1791–1801), Arras, Artois, Auguste Marie Henri Picot de Dampierre, Autun, Auxonne, Édouard Jean Baptiste Milhaud, Œuilly, Marne, Battle of Almonacid, Battle of Arcole, Battle of Arras (1914), Battle of Austerlitz, Battle of Bassano, Battle of Borny–Colombey, Battle of Cassel (1677), Battle of Castiglione, Battle of Charleroi, Battle of Craonne, Battle of Eylau, Battle of Fère-Champenoise, Battle of France, Battle of Friedland, Battle of Hastenbeck, Battle of Landen, Battle of Lauffeld, Battle of Liège, Battle of Ligny, Battle of Malplaquet, Battle of Marengo, Battle of Mondovì, Battle of Neerwinden (1793), Battle of Noisseville, Battle of Ocaña, Battle of Ramillies, Battle of Rocoux, Battle of Spicheren, Battle of Steenkerque, Battle of the Vosges, Battle of Valmy, ..., Battle of Vitoria, Battle of Waterloo, Battle of Wattignies, Battle of Wertingen, Betz, Oise, Bohain-en-Vermandois, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Casablanca, Case Anton, Cavalry, Chalon-sur-Saône, Chambéry, Champagne (wine region), Charles de Gaulle, Colonel General (France), Coucy-la-Ville, Croix de Guerre, Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France), Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France), Düsseldorf, Dinan, Dornbirn, Dragoon, Duke of Luynes, Ehrwald, Figuig, First Battle of the Marne, Flanders Campaign, Fleurus, François de Franquetot de Coigny, François-Henri de Franquetot de Coigny, Franco-Prussian War, French Army, French Forces of the Interior, Friedrichshafen, Fronde, Gestapo, Grande Armée, Gray, Haute-Saône, Grenoble, Guadeloupe, Hirson, Hotchkiss H35, Hundred Days, Infantry, La Souterraine, Landau, Lebanon, Lens, Pas-de-Calais, Louis Bonaparte, Louis XIV of France, Louis-François de Boufflers, M4 Sherman, Maignelay-Montigny, Marc Antoine de Beaumont, Mareuil-lès-Meaux, Margny, Ardennes, Marizy, Maubeuge, Mâcon, Meaux, Meuse, Nancy, France, Nanteuil, Napoleonic Wars, Neufchâteau, Luxembourg Province, Nine Years' War, Noyon, Oisy, Aisne, Operation Torch, Oujda, Palatinate (region), Passy-en-Valois, Périgueux, Péronne, Somme, Picardy, Pirmasens, Rabat, Race to the Sea, René de Froulay de Tessé, Reutte, Revin, Second Battle of the Marne, Senlis, Seven Years' War, Siege of Namur (1692), Somme (river), Tübingen, Touissit, Toulon, Tyrol (state), Universal Carrier, Valdahon, Versailles, Yvelines, Vosges, War of Devolution, War of the Austrian Succession, War of the Sixth Coalition, War of the Spanish Succession, Worms, Germany, Ypres. Expand index (101 more) »

Aisne

Aisne is a French department in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France.

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Alps

The Alps (Alpes; Alpen; Alpi; Alps; Alpe) are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe,The Caucasus Mountains are higher, and the Urals longer, but both lie partly in Asia.

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Amiens

Amiens is a city and commune in northern France, north of Paris and south-west of Lille.

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AMX-13

The AMX-13 is a French light tank produced from 1952 to 1987.

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AMX-30

The AMX-30 is a main battle tank designed by Ateliers de construction d'Issy-les-Moulineaux (AMX, then GIAT) and first delivered to the French Army in 1966.

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Ancien Régime

The Ancien Régime (French for "old regime") was the political and social system of the Kingdom of France from the Late Middle Ages (circa 15th century) until 1789, when hereditary monarchy and the feudal system of French nobility were abolished by the.

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André Sordet

General Jean-François André Sordet (17 May 1852 – 28 July 1923) was a senior officer of the French Army.

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Antoine Nompar de Caumont

Antoine Nompar de Caumont, duc de Lauzun (1632November 19, 1723) was a French courtier and soldier.

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Antoine V de Gramont

Antoine V de Gramont (January 1672 – September 16, 1725), Duke of Guiche, and Marshal of France.

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Army of Italy (France)

The Army of Italy (Armée d'Italie) was a field army of the French Army stationed on the Italian border and used for operations in Italy itself.

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Army of Sambre and Meuse

The Army of Sambre and Meuse (Armée de Sambre-et-Meuse) was one of the armies of the French Revolution.

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Army of the Rhine (1791–1801)

The Army of the Rhine (Armée du Rhin) was formed in December 1791, for the purpose of bringing the French Revolution to the German states along the Rhine River.

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Arras

Arras (Atrecht) is the capital (chef-lieu/préfecture) of the Pas-de-Calais department, which forms part of the region of Hauts-de-France; prior to the reorganization of 2014 it was located in Nord-Pas-de-Calais.

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Artois

Artois (adjective Artesian; Artesië) is a region of northern France.

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Auguste Marie Henri Picot de Dampierre

Auguste Marie Henri Picot de Dampierre (19 August 1756 – 9 May 1793), styled the Marquis de Dampierre and usually known as Dampierre, was a French general during the time of the French Revolution.

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Autun

Autun is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department, France.

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Auxonne

Auxonne is a French commune in the Côte-d'Or department in the Burgundy region of eastern France.

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Édouard Jean Baptiste Milhaud

Édouard Jean-Baptiste, comte Milhaud (10 July 1766 – 10 December 1833) was a French politician andGénéral de Division.

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Œuilly, Marne

Œuilly is a commune in the Marne department in the Grand Est region in north-eastern France.

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Battle of Almonacid

The Battle of Almonacid was fought on 11 August 1809 during the Peninsular War between Sébastiani's IV Corps of the French Peninsular Army, which had withdrawn from the Battle of Talavera to defend Madrid, and the Spanish Army of La Mancha under General Venegas.

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Battle of Arcole

The Battle of Arcole or Battle of Arcola (15–17 November 1796) was a battle fought between French and Austrian forces southeast of Verona during the War of the First Coalition, a part of the French Revolutionary Wars.

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Battle of Arras (1914)

The Battle of Arras (also known as the First Battle of Arras, was an attempt by the French Army to outflank the German Army, which was attempting to do the same thing during the "Race to the Sea", the reciprocal attempts by both sides, to exploit conditions created during the First Battle of the Aisne.

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Battle of Austerlitz

The Battle of Austerlitz (2 December 1805/11 Frimaire An XIV FRC), also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, was one of the most important and decisive engagements of the Napoleonic Wars.

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Battle of Bassano

The Battle of Bassano was fought on 8 September 1796, during the French Revolutionary Wars, in the territory of the Republic of Venice, between a French army under Napoleon Bonaparte and Austrian forces led by Count Dagobert von Wurmser.

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Battle of Borny–Colombey

The Battle of Borny–Colombey (August 14, 1870) was a minor battle of the Franco–Prussian War.

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Battle of Cassel (1677)

The Battle of Cassel was fought on April 11, 1677, as a part of the Franco-Dutch War.

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Battle of Castiglione

The Battle of Castiglione saw the French Army of Italy under General Napoleon Bonaparte attack an army of Habsburg Austria led by Feldmarschall Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser on 5 August 1796.

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Battle of Charleroi

The Battle of Charleroi (Bataille de Charleroi), or the Battle of the Sambre, was fought on 21 August 1914, by the French Fifth Army and the German 2nd and 3rd armies, during the Battle of the Frontiers.

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Battle of Craonne

The Battle of Craonne (7 March 1814) was battle between an Imperial French army under Emperor Napoleon I opposing a combined army of Imperial Russians and Prussians led by Prussian Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher.

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Battle of Eylau

The Battle of Eylau or Battle of Preussisch-Eylau, 7 and 8 February 1807, was a bloody and inconclusive battle between Napoleon's Grande Armée and the Imperial Russian Army under the command of Levin August, Count von Bennigsen near the town of Preussisch Eylau in East Prussia.

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Battle of Fère-Champenoise

The Battle of Fère-Champenoise (25 March 1814) was fought between two Imperial French corps led by Marshals Auguste de Marmont and Édouard Mortier, duc de Trévise and a larger Coalition force composed of cavalry from the Austrian Empire, Kingdom of Prussia, Kingdom of Württemberg, and Russian Empire.

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Battle of France

The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War.

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Battle of Friedland

The Battle of Friedland (June 14, 1807) was a major engagement of the Napoleonic Wars between the armies of the French Empire commanded by Napoleon I and the armies of the Russian Empire led by Count von Bennigsen.

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Battle of Hastenbeck

The Battle of Hastenbeck (26 July 1757) was fought as part of the Invasion of Hanover during the Seven Years' War between the allied forces of Hanover, Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) and Brunswick, and the French.

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Battle of Landen

The Battle of Landen or Neerwinden was fought in present-day Belgium on 29 July 1693 during the Nine Years' War.

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Battle of Lauffeld

The Battle of Lauffeld, also known as Lafelt, Laffeld, Lawfeld, Lawfeldt, Maastricht or Val, took place on 2 July 1747, during the French invasion of the Netherlands.

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Battle of Liège

The Battle of Liège (Bataille de Liège) was the opening engagement of the German invasion of Belgium and the first battle of the First World War.

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Battle of Ligny

The Battle of Ligny (16 June 1815) was the last victory of the military career of Napoleon Bonaparte.

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Battle of Malplaquet

The Battle of Malplaquet was a battle of the War of the Spanish Succession, fought on 11 September 1709, which opposed the Bourbons of France and Spain against an alliance whose major members were the Habsburg Monarchy, the United Provinces, Great Britain and the Kingdom of Prussia.

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Battle of Marengo

The Battle of Marengo was fought on 14 June 1800 between French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte and Austrian forces near the city of Alessandria, in Piedmont, Italy.

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Battle of Mondovì

The Battle of Mondovì was fought on 21 April 1796 between the French army of Napoleon Bonaparte and the army of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont led by Michelangelo Alessandro Colli-Marchi.

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Battle of Neerwinden (1793)

The Second Battle of Neerwinden (18 March 1793) saw a Republican French army led by Charles François Dumouriez attack a Coalition army commanded by Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.

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Battle of Noisseville

The Battle of Noisseville on 31 August 1870 was fought during the Franco-Prussian War and ended in a Prussian victory.

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Battle of Ocaña

The Battle of Ocaña was fought on 19 November 1809 between French forces under Marshal Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, Duke of Dalmatia and King Joseph Bonaparte and the Spanish army under Juan Carlos de Aréizaga, which suffered its greatest single defeat in the Peninsular War.

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Battle of Ramillies

The Battle of Ramillies, fought on 23 May 1706, was a battle of the War of the Spanish Succession.

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Battle of Rocoux

The Battle of Rocoux (11 October 1746) was a French victory over an allied Austrian, British, Hanoveran and Dutch army in Rocourt (or Rocoux), outside Liège during War of the Austrian Succession.

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Battle of Spicheren

The Battle of Spicheren, also known as the Battle of Forbach, was a battle during the Franco-Prussian War.

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Battle of Steenkerque

The Battle of Steenkerque (Steenkerque also spelled Steenkerke or Steenkirk) was fought on 3 August 1692, as a part of the Nine Years' War.

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Battle of the Vosges

The Battle of the Vosges also known as the Battle of Trippstadt was fought on 13 July 1794 in eastern France in the Vosges Mountains from which it derives its name.

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Battle of Valmy

The Battle of Valmy was the first major victory by the army of France during the Revolutionary Wars that followed the French Revolution.

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Battle of Vitoria

At the Battle of Vitoria (21 June 1813) a British, Portuguese and Spanish army under General the Marquess of Wellington broke the French army under Joseph Bonaparte and Marshal Jean-Baptiste Jourdan near Vitoria in Spain, eventually leading to victory in the Peninsular War.

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Battle of Waterloo

The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.

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Battle of Wattignies

The Battle of Wattignies (15–16 October 1793) saw a Republican French army commanded by Jean-Baptiste Jourdan attack a Coalition army directed by Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.

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Battle of Wertingen

In the Battle of Wertingen (8 October 1805) Imperial French forces led by Marshals Joachim Murat and Jean Lannes attacked a small Austrian corps commanded by Feldmarschall-Leutnant Franz Xaver von Auffenberg.

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Betz, Oise

Betz is a commune in the Oise department in northern France.

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Bohain-en-Vermandois

Bohain-en-Vermandois is a commune in the department of Aisne in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina (or; abbreviated B&H; Bosnian and Serbian: Bosna i Hercegovina (BiH) / Боснa и Херцеговина (БиХ), Croatian: Bosna i Hercegovina (BiH)), sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina, and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeastern Europe located on the Balkan Peninsula.

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Casablanca

Casablanca (ad-dār al-bayḍāʾ; anfa; local informal name: Kaẓa), located in the central-western part of Morocco bordering the Atlantic Ocean, is the largest city in Morocco.

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Case Anton

Operation Anton, or Fall Anton, in German, was the codename for the military occupation of Vichy France carried out by Germany and Italy in November 1942.

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Cavalry

Cavalry (from the French cavalerie, cf. cheval 'horse') or horsemen were soldiers or warriors who fought mounted on horseback.

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Chalon-sur-Saône

Chalon-sur-Saône is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.

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Chambéry

Chambéry (Chambèri, Sciamberì, and in Helvetii: Camberia) is a city in the department of Savoie, located in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.

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Champagne (wine region)

The Champagne wine region (archaic Champany) is a wine region within the historical province of Champagne in the northeast of France.

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Charles de Gaulle

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French general and statesman who led the French Resistance against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 in order to reestablish democracy in France.

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Colonel General (France)

A Colonel General was an officer of the French army during the Ancien Régime, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic era and the Bourbon Restoration.

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Coucy-la-Ville

Coucy-la-Ville is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

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Croix de Guerre

The Croix de Guerre (Cross of War) is a military decoration of France.

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Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France)

The Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (War Cross) is a French military decoration, the first version of the Croix de guerre.

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Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France)

The Croix de guerre 1939–1945 (War Cross 1939–1945) is a French military decoration, a version of the Croix de guerre created on September 26, 1939, to honour people who fought with the Allies against the Axis forces at any time during World War II.

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Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf (Low Franconian, Ripuarian: Düsseldörp), often Dusseldorf in English sources, is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the seventh most populous city in Germany. Düsseldorf is an international business and financial centre, renowned for its fashion and trade fairs.

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Dinan

Dinan is a walled Breton town and a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in northwestern France.

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Dornbirn

Dornbirn is a city in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg.

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Dragoon

Dragoons originally were a class of mounted infantry, who used horses for mobility but dismounted to fight on foot.

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Duke of Luynes

The Duke of Luynes is a territorial name belonging to the noble French house d'Albert.

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Ehrwald

Ehrwald is a municipality in the district of Reutte in the Austrian state of Tyrol.

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Figuig

Figuig (Ifyey or Figig, فكيك) is a town in eastern Morocco near the Atlas Mountains, on the border with Algeria.

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First Battle of the Marne

The Battle of the Marne (Première bataille de la Marne, also known as the Miracle of the Marne, Le Miracle de la Marne) was a World War I battle fought from It resulted in an Allied victory against the German armies in the west.

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Flanders Campaign

The Flanders Campaign (or Campaign in the Low Countries) was conducted from 6 November 1792 to 7 June 1795 during the first years of the French Revolutionary Wars.

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Fleurus

Fleurus is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Hainaut.

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François de Franquetot de Coigny

François de Franquetot de Coigny (16 March 1670 – 18 December 1759) was a Marshal of France, Count, and from 1747, the Duke of Coigny.

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François-Henri de Franquetot de Coigny

François-Henri de Franquetot de Coigny, 1er duc de Coigny (1737 – May 19, 1821) was a Marshal of France.

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Franco-Prussian War

The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War (Deutsch-Französischer Krieg, Guerre franco-allemande), often referred to in France as the War of 1870 (19 July 1871) or in Germany as 70/71, was a conflict between the Second French Empire of Napoleon III and the German states of the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia.

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French Army

The French Army, officially the Ground Army (Armée de terre) (to distinguish it from the French Air Force, Armée de L'air or Air Army) is the land-based and largest component of the French Armed Forces.

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French Forces of the Interior

The French Forces of the Interior (Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur) refers to French resistance fighters in the later stages of World War II.

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Friedrichshafen

Friedrichshafen is an industrial city on the northern shoreline of Lake Constance (the Bodensee) in Southern Germany, near the borders of both Switzerland and Austria.

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Fronde

The Fronde was a series of civil wars in France between 1648 and 1653, occurring in the midst of the Franco-Spanish War, which had begun in 1635.

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Gestapo

The Gestapo, abbreviation of Geheime Staatspolizei (Secret State Police), was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe.

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Grande Armée

The Grande Armée (French for Great Army) was the army commanded by Napoleon during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Gray, Haute-Saône

Gray is a commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.

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Grenoble

Grenoble is a city in southeastern France, at the foot of the French Alps where the river Drac joins the Isère.

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Guadeloupe

Guadeloupe (Antillean Creole: Gwadloup) is an insular region of France located in the Leeward Islands, part of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean.

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Hirson

Hirson is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

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Hotchkiss H35

The Hotchkiss H35 or Char léger modèle 1935 H was a French cavalry tank developed prior to World War II.

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Hundred Days

The Hundred Days (les Cent-Jours) marked the period between Napoleon's return from exile on the island of Elba to Paris on20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815 (a period of 110 days).

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Infantry

Infantry is the branch of an army that engages in military combat on foot, distinguished from cavalry, artillery, and tank forces.

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La Souterraine

La Souterraine (La Sotarrana) is a commune in the Creuse department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in central France.

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Landau

Landau, or Landau in der Pfalz, is an autonomous (kreisfrei) town surrounded by the Südliche Weinstraße ("Southern Wine Route") district of southern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Lebanon

Lebanon (لبنان; Lebanese pronunciation:; Liban), officially known as the Lebanese RepublicRepublic of Lebanon is the most common phrase used by Lebanese government agencies.

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Lens, Pas-de-Calais

Lens (Linse) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France.

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Louis Bonaparte

Louis Napoléon Bonaparte (born Luigi Buonaparte; 2 September 1778 – 25 July 1846) was a younger brother of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French.

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Louis XIV of France

Louis XIV (Louis Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (Roi Soleil), was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who reigned as King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.

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Louis-François de Boufflers

Louis François de Boufflers, Duke of Boufflers (10 January 1644 – 22 August 1711) was a French soldier.

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M4 Sherman

The M4 Sherman, officially Medium Tank, M4, was the most widely used medium tank by the United States and Western Allies in World War II.

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Maignelay-Montigny

Maignelay-Montigny is a commune in the Oise department in northern France.

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Marc Antoine de Beaumont

Marc Antoine Bonnin de la Bonninière de Beaumont (23 September 1763 – 4 February 1830) a French nobleman, became a page to the king and joined the army of the Old Regime.

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Mareuil-lès-Meaux

Mareuil-lès-Meaux is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.

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Margny, Ardennes

Margny is a commune in the Ardennes department in northern France.

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Marizy

Marizy is a former commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.

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Maubeuge

Maubeuge (historical Mabuse or Malbode) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

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Mâcon

Mâcon, historically anglicized as Mascon, is a small city in east-central France.

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Meaux

Meaux is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in the metropolitan area of Paris, France.

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Meuse

The Meuse (la Meuse; Walloon: Moûze) or Maas (Maas; Maos or Maas) is a major European river, rising in France and flowing through Belgium and the Netherlands before draining into the North Sea.

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Nancy, France

Nancy (Nanzig) is the capital of the north-eastern French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle, and formerly the capital of the Duchy of Lorraine, and then the French province of the same name.

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Nanteuil

Nanteuil is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in western France.

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Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European powers formed into various coalitions, financed and usually led by the United Kingdom.

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Neufchâteau, Luxembourg Province

Neufchâteau (Li Tchestea in Walloon) is a Walloon municipality of Belgium located in the province of Luxembourg.

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Nine Years' War

The Nine Years' War (1688–97) – often called the War of the Grand Alliance or the War of the League of Augsburg – was a conflict between Louis XIV of France and a European coalition of Austria, the Holy Roman Empire, the Dutch Republic, Spain, England and Savoy.

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Noyon

Noyon (Noviomagus Veromanduorum, Noviomagus of the Veromandui) is a commune in the Oise department in northern France.

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Oisy, Aisne

Oisy is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

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Operation Torch

Operation Torch (8–16 November 1942, formerly Operation Gymnast) was a Anglo–American invasion of French North Africa, during the North African Campaign of the Second World War.

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Oujda

Oujda (ūʒda) is the capital city of the Oriental region of eastern Morocco.

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Palatinate (region)

The Palatinate (die Pfalz, Pfälzer dialect: Palz), historically also Rhenish Palatinate (Rheinpfalz), is a region in southwestern Germany.

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Passy-en-Valois

Passy-en-Valois is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

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Périgueux

Périgueux (Peireguers or Periguers) is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.

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Péronne, Somme

Péronne is a commune of the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

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Picardy

Picardy (Picardie) is a historical territory and a former administrative region of France.

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Pirmasens

Pirmasens is an independent town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, near the border with France.

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Rabat

Rabat (الرِّبَاط,; ⴰⵕⴱⴰⵟ) is the capital city of Morocco and its third largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan population of over 1.2 million.

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Race to the Sea

The Race to the Sea took place from about 1914, after the Battle of the Frontiers and the German advance into France, which had been stopped at the First Battle of the Marne and was followed by the First Battle of the Aisne a Franco-British counter-offensive.

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René de Froulay de Tessé

René de Froulay, Comte de Tessé (14 May 1648 – 30 March 1725) was a French soldier and diplomat during the reign of Louis XIV and the 1715-1723 Regency.

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Reutte

Reutte is a market town in the Austrian state of Tyrol.

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Revin

Revin is a commune in the Ardennes department in the Grand Est region in northern France.

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Second Battle of the Marne

The Second Battle of the Marne (Seconde Bataille de la Marne), or Battle of Reims (15 July – 6 August 1918) was the last major German offensive on the Western Front during the First World War.

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Senlis

Senlis is a commune in the Oise department in northern France.

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Seven Years' War

The Seven Years' War was a global conflict fought between 1756 and 1763.

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Siege of Namur (1692)

The Siege of Namur, 25 May–30 June 1692, was a major engagement of the Nine Years' War, and was part of the French grand plan (devised over the winter of 1691–92) to defeat the forces of the Grand Alliance and bring a swift conclusion to the war.

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Somme (river)

The Somme is a river in Picardy, northern France.

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Tübingen

Tübingen is a traditional university town in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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Touissit

Touissit is a town in Jerada Province, Oriental, Morocco.

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Toulon

Toulon (Provençal: Tolon (classical norm), Touloun (Mistralian norm)) is a city in southern France and a large military harbour on the Mediterranean coast, with a major French naval base.

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Tyrol (state)

Tyrol (Tirol; Tirolo) is a federal state (Bundesland) in western Austria.

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Universal Carrier

The Universal Carrier, also known as the Bren Gun Carrier from the light machine gun armament, is a common name describing a family of light armoured tracked vehicles built by Vickers-Armstrongs and other companies.

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Valdahon

Valdahon is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.

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Versailles, Yvelines

Versailles is a city in the Yvelines département in Île-de-France region, renowned worldwide for the Château de Versailles and the gardens of Versailles, designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

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Vosges

The Vosges (or; Vogesen), also called the Vosges Mountains, are a range of low mountains in eastern France, near its border with Germany.

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War of Devolution

The War of Devolution (1667–68) saw the French armies of Louis XIV overrun the Habsburg-controlled Spanish Netherlands and the Franche-Comté (or Free County of Burgundy), only to be pressured to give most of it back by a Triple Alliance of England, Sweden and the Dutch Republic, in the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.

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War of the Austrian Succession

The War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748) involved most of the powers of Europe over the question of Maria Theresa's succession to the Habsburg Monarchy.

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War of the Sixth Coalition

In the War of the Sixth Coalition (March 1813 – May 1814), sometimes known in Germany as the War of Liberation, a coalition of Austria, Prussia, Russia, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Sweden, Spain and a number of German states finally defeated France and drove Napoleon into exile on Elba.

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War of the Spanish Succession

The War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) was a European conflict of the early 18th century, triggered by the death of the childless Charles II of Spain in November 1700.

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Worms, Germany

Worms is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, situated on the Upper Rhine about south-southwest of Frankfurt-am-Main.

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Ypres

Ypres (Ieper) is a Belgian municipality in the province of West Flanders.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th_Dragoon_Regiment_(France)

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