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    ministers attend—only his Compagnons de la Libération. Since a large number of foreign dignitaries wanted to honor de Gaulle, Pompidou arranged a separate...
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    Algiers. From there, the French Committee of National Liberation (Comité français de Libération nationale, CFLN) was formed as the provisional government...
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    attribution de la Croix de la libération" (in French). Retrieved 29 October 2019. "Biographie de Jean de Lattre de Tassigny". National Order of Liberation. Retrieved...
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    March 13, 2000. Retrieved 6 June 2012. "Décès de Castries, un des derniers officiers du Bataillon français de Corée | France-Amérique". Archived from the...
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  • Frantz Fanon (category People from Fort-de-France)
    Martinique in June 1943, Fanon returned to Fort-de-France to join the newly created, all black 5e Bataillon de marche des Antilles [fr]. He enlisted in the...
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    May 1814 requesting the permission to establish a special battalion, a Bataillon de Chasseurs, for the service of his majesty. Frederick William III then...
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    Superior War College (French: École Supérieure de Guerre). He was promoted to the rank of Chef de bataillon (Commandant - Major) on 1 December 1976. Appointed...
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  • including the 90eme Bataillon de police militaire (seemingly located at Béni Messous, in the suburbs of Algiers) and the 95eme Bataillon de police militaire...
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    Ain (French: 2e Bataillon de Volontaires de l'Ain) and the 3rd Volunteer Battalion of Nièvre (French: 3e Bataillon de Volontaires de la Nièvre). 1796...
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    September 1944) of Jean de Lattre de Tassigny's successful amalgam of the French Liberation Army (French: Armée française de la Libération), the (400,000 men)...
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    From Defeat to Liberation. Fordham University Press. pp. 37–40. ISBN 978-0-8232-2562-0. Jean-Pierre Azéma, De Munich à la Libération, Le Seuil, 1979...
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    Jacques Massu (category École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr alumni)
    provisional infantry force of the 4e Bataillon, Régiment de marche du Tchad and the French Navy’s Régiment Blindé de Fusiliers-Marins, with M3 Half-tracks;...
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    Martin Niemöller (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    During the Ruhr Uprising in 1920, he was battalion commander of the "III. Bataillon der Akademischen Wehr Münster" belonging to the paramilitary Freikorps...
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    Daniel Ortega (category Sandinista National Liberation Front politicians)
    Ortega's government imprisoned 14,000 in Nicaragua. Anthropologist Gilles Bataillon termed this "politics of ethnocide" in Nicaragua. The Indians formed two...
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    The Bataillon de Chasseurs Ardennais (lit. 'Battalion of Ardennes Hunters', or more figuratively, 'Ardennes Light Infantry', officially abbreviated as...
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    Army 1914-18. Men-at-Arms. London: Osprey. ISBN 978-1-85-532516-6. "81e bataillon de Tirailleurs Sénégalais: J.M.O. 3 juillet 1916-8 mai 1919 – 26 N 872/13"...
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    Laurent Fignon (category French Tour de France stage winners)
    the end of the year to do his military service. He was posted at the Bataillon de Joinville, known for its sporting reputation. After this, Fignon was...
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    Allied soldier killed in the liberation of France was Free French SAS Corporal Emile Bouétard of the 4e Bataillon d’Infanterie de l’Air, also in Brittany in...
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    some non-commissioned officers who would become the backbone of the Bataillon de tirailleurs somalis (FR), which later fought in Europe. Some Free French...
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    parachutiste de choc, 11e RPC (11th Shock Parachute Regiment), colloquially called "11e Choc," and in the 1er Bataillon Parachutiste de Choc, 1er BPC...
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  • éclairée de la deuxième moitié du XVIIIe siècle (in French). ean Sarrailh – Biografías y Vidas. Bataillon 1963, p. 465. Bataillon 1963, p. 466. Bataillon 1963...
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  • Russian International Affairs Council, but their original source is unclear. According to BBC News and CheckNews, the fact-checking service of Libération, videos...
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  • Azerbaijani SS volunteer formations (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Battalions (I & II) of SS Sonderregiment Dirlewanger, Aserbeidschanisches Feld Bataillon I./111 (com. Hptm. Werner Scharrenberg), Ostmuselmanisches SS Regiment...
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    battalion wearing the anchor of la Coloniale, the BIM, to form the Bataillon de l'infanterie de marine et du Pacifique. The combined battalion formed part of...
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    Pierre Brossolette (category French Section of the Workers' International politicians)
    awarded Compagnon de la Libération. Brossolette created the civilian arm of the BCRAM intelligence service, which became the Bureau Central de Renseignements...
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    matters. On 2 August 1941 Albert Ouzoulias was put in charge of the Bataillons de la Jeunesse, fighting groups that were being created by the Jeunesses...
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    Jean-Bédel Bokassa (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
    September 1939 following his enlistment. While serving in the second bataillon de marche, Bokassa became a corporal in July 1940, and a sergeant major...
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    2022). "La Lituanie a l'intention d'équiper un bataillon d'artillerie avec des CAESAr acquis auprès de Nexter" (in French). Zone Militaire. Retrieved...
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    to August 1993, deploying in total 40 military personnel in a Belgian bataillon. In 1996 Luxembourg contributed to IFOR missions in former Yugoslavia...
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  • List of paratrooper forces (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Parachute Commandos Battalion (1er Bataillon de Commandos Parachutistes) Army 16th Special Forces Regiment "Jordán" (Regimiento de Fuerzas Especiales Nº 16 "Jordán")...
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