Faction: The French Army The First World War In January 1914 the French Army had 47 divisions. The strength of the army ...

Around 2,000 Ukrainian soldiers are training in France's eastern Marne region, where German and French armies battled each other during World War I.

Scientists from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, based in northern France, are at the forefront of efforts to identify bodies that are still regularly found in northern France, along the former ...

France's "Champagne" task force focuses on advanced combat tactics, trench warfare and coordination with artillery and tanks.

A FRENCH MILITARY BASE, France -- A French military task force with a festive name — “Champagne” — is wrapping up a mission ...

More than 5,000 white-coated French troops under the command of Comte de Rochambeau arrived in America in 1780, more than two ...

The names of 291 French and Swiss soldiers who died for France during World War I were commemorated Monday on two steles added to the Franco-Swiss war memorial in Geneva. The additional soldiers born ...

Poilu - roughly pronounced pwa-loo - translates literally as ‘hairy one’. The word poil means 'hair' but in humans more ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has joined French President Emmanuel Macron at a Paris ceremony marking the 106th ...

It was also the longest battle, lasting 300 days and leaving an estimated 800,000 soldiers dead ... for control of the Kamina wireless station. WW1: Why was the first day of the Somme such ...

Soldiers scramble through trenches under a haze of yellow smoke, machine gunfire booms across the fields, invisible drones ...