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    The Battle of France (French: bataille de France; 10 May – 25 June 1940), also known as the Western Campaign (German: Westfeldzug), the French Campaign...
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  • of battle for the Battle of France details the hierarchy of the major combatant forces in the Battle of France in May 1940. The bulk of the forces of...
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  • The Timeline of the Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, covers the period during World War II from the first military actions between...
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    The Battle of Britain (German: Luftschlacht um England, "air battle for England") was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air...
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    The Battle of Dunkirk (French: Bataille de Dunkerque) was fought around the French port of Dunkirk (Dunkerque) during the Second World War, between the...
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    the wake of the conflict led to the Second World War, in which France and the Allies were defeated in the Battle of France and almost half of the country...
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    The Italian invasion of France (10–25 June 1940), also called the Battle of the Alps, was the first major Italian engagement of World War II and the last...
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    encounter. Some prominent examples of this would be the Battle of the Atlantic, Battle of Britain, and the Battle of France, all in World War II. Wars and...
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    the Battle of France (10 May – 25 June 1940) during World War II, this armistice established a German occupation zone in Northern and Western France that...
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    were in front-line service at the beginning of the Battle of France, with the three armoured divisions of the Cavalry, the Divisions Légères Mécaniques...
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    The historiography of the Battle of France describes how the German victory over French and British forces in the Battle of France had been explained...
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  • half of France, and continued into an air war between Germany and Britain that climaxed with the Battle of Britain. After capitulation, France was governed...
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    3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf (category Panzer divisions of the Waffen-SS)
    time of the Battle of France, the division was equipped with ex-Czech weapons. Totenkopf was initially held in reserve during the Battle of France and...
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    day. The battle was known contemporarily as the Battle of Mont Saint-Jean in France (after the hamlet of Mont-Saint-Jean) or La Belle Alliance in Prussia...
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  • Battle of Novara may refer to: Battle of Novara (1500), a battle between France and Milan during the Second Italian War Battle of Novara (1513), a battle...
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  • to 1940, the French Third Republic was at war with Nazi Germany. In 1940, the German forces defeated the French in the Battle of France. The Germans occupied...
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  • 7th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht) (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    formation of the German Army in World War II. It participated in the Battle of France, the invasion of the Soviet Union, the occupation of Vichy France, and...
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    Battle of Narvik 1941 Battle of Cape Matapan Battle of Pearl Harbor 1942 Battle of the Coral Sea Battle of Midway Battle of Guadalcanal 1943 Battle of...
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    The Battle of Puebla (Spanish: Batalla de Puebla; French: Bataille de Puebla), also known as the Battle of May 5 (Spanish: Batalla del 5 de Mayo) took...
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    feudalism in France. Some of the king's vassals would grow so powerful they often posed a threat to the king. For example, after the Battle of Hastings in...
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    The Battle of the Plains of Abraham, also known as the Battle of Quebec (French: Bataille des Plaines d'Abraham, Première bataille de Québec), was a pivotal...
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    the Battle of the Three Emperors, was one of the most important military engagements of the Napoleonic Wars. The battle occurred near the town of Austerlitz...
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    Army Group Centre in the battles of Moscow (1941) and Kursk (1943). After heavy losses on the Eastern Front it was sent to France for rehabilitation (1944)...
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    on Mers-el-Kébir (Battle of Mers-el-Kébir) on 3 July 1940, during the Second World War, was a British naval attack on neutral French Navy ships at the...
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    War of the Sixth Coalition: German campaign 200km 125miles 19 18 17 Leipzig 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1    The Battle of Leipzig (French: Bataille...
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    overran mainland France in the Battle of France in May and June 1940, this Croix de Guerre was replaced by the pro-Axis Vichy French government with another...
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    The Battle of Agincourt (/ˈædʒɪnkɔːr(t)/ AJ-in-kor(t); French: Azincourt [azɛ̃kuʁ]) was an English victory in the Hundred Years' War. It took place on...
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  • Battle of Arras refers to a number of battles which took place near the town of Arras in Artois, France: Siege of Arras (1640), a siege by the French...
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    defences on the border. When the Battle of France (Fall Gelb) began on 10 May 1940, the BEF constituted 10 per cent of the Allied forces on the Western...
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    The Battle of the Somme (French: Bataille de la Somme; German: Schlacht an der Somme), also known as the Somme offensive, was a major battle of the First...
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