• Charles Delestraint (12 March 1879 – 19 April 1945) was a French Army lieutenant general and member of the French Resistance during World War II. He also...
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    Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (/də ˈɡoʊl, də ˈɡɔːl/ də GOHL, də GAWL, French: [ʃaʁl də ɡol] ; 22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French...
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    later sketched the four women which aided in their identification. Charles Delestraint, leader of the Armée Secrète, was detained at Natzweiler-Struthof...
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    1943. The next month, Moulin returned to London, accompanied by Charles Delestraint, who led the new Armée secrète, which grouped together the MUR's...
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    Frenay proposed Charles Delestraint, a general recalled from his retirement during the Battle of France, who admired General Charles de Gaulle and detested...
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  • suspected of being instrumental in the arrest of Jean Moulin, General Charles Delestraint and other members of the resistance. Despite later being acquitted...
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    recognised General de Gaulle as the leader of France and selected General Charles Delestraint (codename Vidal) as the commander of the AS. Moulin followed this...
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    PGFR was officially created by the CFLN on 3 June 1944, the day before Charles de Gaulle arrived in London from Algiers on Winston Churchill's invitation...
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    Provisional Government Leaders Charles de Gaulle Jean Moulin Emmanuel d'Astier Pierre Brossolette Charles Delestraint Henri Frenay Marie-Madeleine Fourcade...
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    Resistance, later Prime Minister) Virginia d'Albert-Lake (American) Charles Delestraint (French Resistance) Andrée de Jongh ("Dédée") (Belgian Resistance)...
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  • border areas 1940–1942, almost all Rhône left-bank territory 1942-1943 Charles de Gaulle, the main leader Free France (La France Libre), the provisional...
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    British West Africa." Chief administrators 12 Mar 1889 - 27 Apr 1895 Fortuné Charles de Chavannes (s.a.) 27 Apr 1895 - 22 Jan 1899 Louis Henri Albert Dolisie...
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    Provisional Government Leaders Charles de Gaulle Jean Moulin Emmanuel d'Astier Pierre Brossolette Charles Delestraint Henri Frenay Marie-Madeleine Fourcade...
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    Germany, was the 10th Infantry Division. Gerd-Rainer Horn 2020, p. 16. Jean-Charles Stasi 2015, p. 16. Paul Gaujac 2004, p. 160. Gerd-Rainer Horn (2020). The...
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    Provisional Government Leaders Charles de Gaulle Jean Moulin Emmanuel d'Astier Pierre Brossolette Charles Delestraint Henri Frenay Marie-Madeleine Fourcade...
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    in World War II. A civil engineer by trade, he assisted General Charles Delestraint within the Armée secrète. Aubrac and his wife Lucie, both communist...
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    French Equatorial African (AEF) federation to support Free France under Charles de Gaulle rather than the government of Vichy France. Chad became the base...
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    2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine, accessed June 2014. David C. Isby and Charles Kamps Jr, Armies of NATO's Central Front, Jane's Publishing Company, 1985...
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    some research on sleeping sickness) as well as encouraging Francophony. Charles Atangana, designated paramount chief by the Germans, and others local chiefs...
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    l'Intérieur) were French resistance fighters in the later stages of World War II. Charles de Gaulle used it as a formal name for the resistance fighters. The change...
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    At the outbreak of World War II, Charles de Gaulle was put in charge of the French Fifth Army's tanks (five scattered battalions, largely equipped with...
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    Provisional Government Leaders Charles de Gaulle Jean Moulin Emmanuel d'Astier Pierre Brossolette Charles Delestraint Henri Frenay Marie-Madeleine Fourcade...
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    under Henri Rol-Tanguy staged an uprising in the city from 19 August, Charles de Gaulle threatened to send the division into Paris, single-handedly,...
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  • in Literature Georges Bégué (1911–1993), SOE Robert Benoist (1895–1944) Charles Berty (1911–1944), French professional cyclist Georges Bidault (1899–1983)...
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    Émile Muselier. In the wake of the Armistice and the Appeal of 18 June, Charles de Gaulle founded the Free French Forces (Forces Françaises Libres, or...
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    Pierre Dejussieu-Pontcarral Dino Del Favero [fr] Maurice Delage Charles Delestraint Raymond Deleule André Delfau [fr] François Delimal [fr] Georges Delrieu [fr]...
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    Battle of Bir Hakeim]. Espoir, revue de l'institut Charles de Gaulle (in French). Paris: Institut Charles de Gaulle. OCLC 29827723. Wikimedia Commons has...
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  • Special Operations Executive agent, murdered 13 September 1944 Charles Delestraint, French general and leader of French resistance; executed by Gestapo...
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    Provisional Government Leaders Charles de Gaulle Jean Moulin Emmanuel d'Astier Pierre Brossolette Charles Delestraint Henri Frenay Marie-Madeleine Fourcade...
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    Tank Brigade (O'Carroll) 32nd Army Tank Brigade (Willison) XXX Corps (Charles Norrie) 1st Armoured Division (Herbert Lumsden) 2nd Armoured Brigade Group...
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