He saw action in French uniform against the Spanish in the ... the Gannibal family continued to serve in the Russian military during the Napoleonic Wars. Four sons of Abram Petrovich’s youngest ...

By the time it was over, half a million Frenchmen were in uniform there (against a total Moslem population of 9 million, or one soldier to every 18 inhabitants, not counting the pro-French local white ...

First of all he would have said it in French, despite this not actually being his first language (Napoleon grew up on ... He escaped from there and raised an army, but was defeated at the Battle ...

President Trump said over the weekend his work to “save” the country gives him legal leeway. “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law,” Trump posted Saturday to Truth Social and X.

Three years of war and hundreds of thousands of dead on both the Ukrainian and Russian sides have pushed the French army into rethinking its military strategy. The high-intensity conflict ...

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Ivory Coast officially took control of the last remaining French military base in the country on Thursday as the majority of French forces departed from countries across ...

The French Army received its first Griffon Mortier Embarqué Pour l'Appui au Contact (MEPAC) 6×6 self-propelled 120 mm mortar carrier on 19 December 2024. (DGA Techniques terrestres) The French ...

Once a key link in France's military presence in Africa, Chad was its last foothold in the wider Sahel region after the forced withdrawal of French troops from Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger.