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FRANCS-TIREURS - LoveToKnow Article on FRANCS-TIREURS This was strenuously resisted by th societies, to their sorrow as it turned out, for the Germans treate captured francs-tireurs as irresponsible non-combatants found with arms in their hands and usually exacted the death penalty. As they wore no uniforms were armed with the best existing rifles and elected their owi officers, the government made repeated attempts to bring th societies, which were at once a valuable asset to the armed strength of France and a possible menace to internal order under military discipline. They were originally rifle clubs or unofficial militar) societies formed in the east of France at the time of the Luxem burg crisis of 1867. www.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FR/FRANCS_TIREURS.htm   (413 words)

FrancoPrussian A guerrilla war waged by the francs-tireurs provoked savage reprisals. France tactlessly insisted, and when the King refused to discuss the matter further or to see the French Ambassador, Bismarck managed to make it appear that France had been insulted. It was fully expected that France would now sue for peace, but the newly formed republic affirmed its intention of continuing the war, and began the mammoth task of building new armies. sirgarnet.com /FrancoPrussian.html   (661 words)

menich39.html Several instances of German brutality in France were also evident, and in many cases their severity was greater than in Belgium. A reasonable estimate of the data shows that somewhere between 12-15 percent of Belgium's pre-war national wealth or approximately 22 billion francs, left the country or was destroyed by the Germans during the war. Only via Belgium into Northern France is there a level pathway, clear of obstacles, of imposing breadth for most of the distance, and laced with every facility for the rapid deployment and continuing supply of large military forces. etext.lib.virginia.edu /journals/EH/EH39/menich39.html   (10191 words)

Francophone - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Francophone Francophone countries include France, Belgium, Canada, Switzerland, Haiti and the French West Indies, and several countries in Africa that are former French colonies. Hence many people would only consider France as the only truly francophone country as other contries have French spoken by a minority of the population. In Canadian English, you usually canot be both and Anglophone AND a Francophone, you have to choose (usually your most fluent language). www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Francophone.html   (225 words)

FRANCS - ARCHERS - LoveToKnow Article on FRANCS - ARCHERS The institution of the francs-archers was the first attempt at the formation of regular infantry in France. the francs-archers dis tinguished themselves in numerous battles with the English and assisted the king to drive them from France. See Daniel, Histoire de la milicefrancaise (1721); and E. Boutaric Institutions milita4res de la France avant lesarmes permanentes (1863) www.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FR/FRANCS_ARCHERS.htm   (99 words)

Notes on the War. Engels 1870-71. In fact, this law may be called a complete vade-mecum for the franc-tireur, and, drawn up as it is by no mean strategist, it is as applicable to-day in France as it was at that time in Germany. It is well known that this same Schill in 1809, when Prussia was at peace but Austria at war with France, led his regiment out on a campaign of his own against Napoleon, quite Garibaldi-like; that he was killed at Stralsund and his men taken prisoner. The country between the Weser and Elbe rose to arms in April; a little later on the people about Magdeburg rose; Gneisenau himself wrote to friends in Franconia — the letter is published by Pertz — calling on them to rise upon the enemy’s line of communications. www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1870/12/09.htm   (1071 words)

French Film Bears Witness to Wartime Complicity As loyal Communists, they obeyed instructions to accept Germany's conquest of France in June 1940, but they were also delighted when Hitler attacked the Soviet Union in July 1941: at last the French Communist Party was under orders from Moscow to terrorize the Nazi occupation forces. With three of the film's "terrorists" still alive, perhaps it is time for the documentary to be shown again in France. Boucault said that at times it was hard to follow the men as they excitedly recounted their guerrilla actions, so he persuaded them to re- enact some dramatic moments on the streets of Paris, even to the point of having them wave pistols and hurry down escape paths. www.bsu.edu /web/ksmith/ww2_resistance-film-france-jews-communists.htm   (967 words)

MSN Encarta - Search Results - Franc Franc, name applied to several modern currencies that once served as basic monetary units in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Monaco. Franc, currency of Liechtenstein, currency of Switzerland, foreign exchange rates in U.S. Dollars Map of Franc Zone (map of member countries) encarta.msn.com /Franc.html   (83 words)

guerrilla warfare -> History on Encyclopedia.com 2002 These forces (known collectively as the “underground” and, in France, as the maquis) were supplied by Allied airdrops and coordinated from London by radio. After the French defeat at Dienbienphu (1945), France withdrew from the conflict; but the 1954 Geneva Conference brought no permanent peace, and Communist guerrilla activity continued in Laos, Cambodia, and South Vietnam. In the Soviet Union guerrilla warfare was included in instruction at the military academy; in the field it was so brilliantly organized that it constituted a continual threat to the German rear and contributed greatly to the German disaster on the Eastern Front. www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/guerrill_history.asp   (1234 words)

H-France Reviews The subject of the film is a group of foreign-born, mostly Jewish partisans, who, as members of the Communist Party’s Main d’oeuvre immigré (MOI), formed into special detachments of the Francs-tireurs-partisans (FTP) to engage in acts of direct violent resistance against the French and German authorities during World War II. Sketching (probably too) briefly the background of their immigration to France, in the twenties and thirties, and their deepening communist engagements, the interviews center principally upon the decision to hazard acts of violent resistance to Nazi occupation. The crumbling of the fragile post-war consensus of memory in France, beginning in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, could not but influence understanding and representation of the Resistance. www.uakron.edu /hfrance/reviews/young3.html   (2896 words)

Modern History Sourcebook: A War Correspondent in the Franco-Prussian War, 1870 WHEN war was declared between France and Germany in the early summer of 1870, I was sent by a London paper to act as special correspondent with MacMahon's corps d'armee, and, leaving the town at twenty-four hours' notice, arrived at Strasburg with by no means too much time to spare. He is an English officer of rank, who has come to France in order that he may see and admire how Frenchmen defend their country. The former were filled with French prisoners and wounded soldiers; the latter with fresh German troops en route for the seat of war, doctors and sisters of charity on their way to tend the sick of the German army, and every sort of war stores and supplies it is possible to imagine. www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/1870war1.html   (2676 words)

H-Net Review: Alon Rachamimov on The German Atrocities of 1914: A History of Denial It was quite ironic that the arguments of pacifists in France, Britain, and the United States, paralleled the rhetoric of German revisionists. The brutal conduct of the German Army in Belgium and France in 1914 continued to poison relations between the three countries until 1925. Its credibility rested on pre-war mindsets and doctrines: the memory of the 1870-1871 war against France, where the Prussian-led forces had indeed faced widespread www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=48071096633975   (1337 words)

Paris Has Liberated Itself by Maurice Thorez 1944 While the battle of France is unfurling with growing success, the Red Army, joined in battle with the main forces of the German army, pursues its victorious offensive. If the war were to be prolonged few of our compatriots would see France again. You didn’t die in vain, glorious martyrs of the French cause, representatives of Greater Paris, imprisoned by the Munichois and the Vichyssois and assassinated by the Hitlerite bandits. www.marxists.org /reference/archive/thorez/1944/paris-liberated.htm   (1256 words)

eBay.co.uk - francs, Coins, Banknotes, Europe items at low prices France 1870 Repub Franc Ceres 10c bistre imperf  France 6.55 Francs 1999 "Roman Art" Proof Silver Coin  France 6.55 Francs 1999 "Gothic Art" Proof Silver Coin  books.search.ebay.co.uk /francs_Books-Comics-Magazines_W0QQfsooZ1QQf...   (279 words)

Geoffrey Wawro on Franco-Prussian War & Iraq on National Review Online What they found was that highly educated Prussia, unlike France — where 70 percent of the population were illiterate peasants — was vulnerable to the "CNN effect." With the economy sinking and thousands of sons and husbands deployed in France, German opinion wobbled uncertainly. A better-armed, better-led Prussian army marched rapidly into France, thrashed the French regular army at Gravelotte and Sedan, and rolled all the way to Paris in less than a month. They had 700,000 professional troops in France, and the entire pre-war French army in captivity. www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-wawro040203.asp   (1035 words)

Uniforms of FPW in 6mm Francs tireurs de la Sarthe: (4 cies) = CH 1st uniform : All blue uniform, blue kepi with green band, pants with green bands. The zouaves reverted slowly to the first uniform when the right blue grey cloth was found in France. Before Loigny and in this battle (2 December 1870), in the 1st battalion, officers as above, men in grey zouave vest with red braid, red cuffs, grey trousers with read seam, red sash, light grey képi with red band, white gaiters. homepages.paradise.net.nz /mcnelly/vb/articles/uniforms_of_FPW.htm   (703 words)

Trial of Wilhelm List and Others. The Hostages Trial. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1949. Part IV We are obliged to hold that such guerrillas were francs tireurs who, upon capture, could be subjected to the death penalty. They were not francs tireurs in any sense of the word. Assuming the correctness of the position taken by the defendant that they became prisoners of war of the Germans upon the signing of the surrender terms, then the terms of the Geneva Convention of 1929, regulating the treatment of prisoners of war were violated. www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /WCC/List4.htm   (5985 words)

Articles - French Resistance The French Resistance is the name used for resistance movements that fought military occupation of France by Nazi Germany and the Vichy France undemocratic regime during World War II after the government and the high command of France surrendered in 1940. The Resistance was opposed by the German Abwehr, Gestapo, Sicherheitspolizei and Wehrmacht, as well as the Milice, the Vichy France police force led by Joseph Darnand. When the Germans initiated a forced labor draft in France in the beginning of 1943, thousands of young men fled and joined the maquis. www.lastring.com /articles/French_Resistance?mySession=ab7c553b7fdae5e47d5e22275ba2230f   (2005 words)

MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base Founding Philosophy: The group was a radical antifascist group named as a tribute to the Francs-Tireurs Partisans, a resistance group which engaged in industrial sabotage and included members of the French Communist party and trade unionists during WWII. Francs Tireurs (Mavericks) attacked Government target (Feb. 20, 1998, France) Mothertongue Name: Francs Tireurs et Partisans de Marseille www.tkb.org /Group.jsp?groupID=3596   (360 words)

Lyon, France During the Second World War, Lyon became the capital of the Resistance with three big movements: combat, Liberation and Francs Tireurs. The Burgondes, the Sarrasins, the Francs as well as natural disasters, plague, fire and a huge flood in 580 stopped the town's evolution over the years. Wars between noblemen meant the town's status changed frequently from being part of the kingdom of France, to belonging to Germany, or the kingdom of Provence, or Burgundy. worldfacts.us /France-Lyon.htm   (2362 words)

World War II Special Operations Forces, CODE AND COVER NAMES Originally used as name given to high ground in southeastern France covered with scrub growth in which French guerrilla bands operated and from which they took the name. Groupes francs Military units of the MUR specializing in sabotage and raids. CFL Corps Francs de la Libération (name of French MUR military groups unified in 1944). www.army.mil /cmh-pg/reference/etocode.html   (3658 words)

FRANCONIA (Ger. Franken) - Online Information article about FRANCONIA (Ger. Franken) Daniel, Histoire de la milice francaise (1721) ; and E. Boutaric, Institutions militaires de la France avant lesarmees permanentes (1863). English, and assisted the king to drive them from France. government made repeated attempts to bring the societies, which were at once a valuable asset to the armed strength of France and a possible menace to See also: encyclopedia.jrank.org /FRA_GAE/FRANCONIA_Ger_Franken_.html   (1773 words)

HyperWar: US Army in WWII: Cross Channel Invasion [Chapter 6] Targets in eastern France and part of Belgium were allocated to the Eighth Air Force; Bomber Command was to hit western France and the area around Paris while the AEAF concentrated its efforts on northern France and Belgium. It was as though by dictating the terms of humiliating armistice in the historic railway carriage at Compiegne they meant to prove not only that France was beaten but that she was helpless even to save her dignity in defeat. Bombing of enemy railroads in France and Belgium was carried out by all three air forces, and before D Day nearly all assigned targets had been hit. www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USA/USA-E-XChannel/USA-E-XChannel-6.html   (15331 words)

Henri Rol-Tanguy -- Resistance hero Rol-Tanguy, a lifelong Communist, emerged as the leader of the Communist-led Francs-Tireurs et Partisans, or Snipers and Partisans, in the Paris region after other Resistance figures had been arrested and shot. Paris -- Henri Rol-Tanguy, one of France's most decorated Resistance heroes, who organized the popular uprising against the German occupation of Paris and, a few days later, joined Gaullist general Philippe Leclerc in taking the surrender of German forces stationed in the capital, died Sunday. Two years later, after serving briefly in the French army and escaping detention when Germany occupied France in May 1940, Mr. www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/09/13/BA189209.DTL   (413 words)

Daily Telegraph (London, England): Les francs-tireurs.(City)@ HighBeam Research My contacts in the monetary resistance movement (les francs-tireurs) tell me that the pound stands at 10.40 francs, at the underground rate derived from... This, as you may remember, stands for the exchange rate at which it became economic to drink in France. Instead I have been pursuing my study of comparative purchasing power, and I am pleased to report that the ten-franc kir is going strong. highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:92484395&...   (178 words)

First World War.com - Feature Articles - Brave Little Belgium - German Terror Campaign The financial cost of the war is said to have amounted to almost $38 billion for Germany alone; Britain spent $35 billion, France $24 billion, Russia $22 billion, USA $22 billion and Austria-Hungary $20 billion. In total the war cost the Allies around $125 billion; the Central Powers $60 billion. www.firstworldwar.com /features/terror.htm   (399 words)

Troupes de Marine: French Army:2300AD As for most of France the Coloniale had a difficult WW2, many of its units were destroyed by the Germans in 1940. The Coloniale gained a reputation as France’s elite during WW1, ending the war with seven divisions in the field. It saw service in France’s wars of decolonisation in Indochina and Algeria before being renamed with its current title, although maintaining its Moroccan heritage on its insignia. www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~dheb/2300/Europe/France/Fr2303/AFTdM.htm   (6859 words)

Francs-Tireurs Partisans The Francs-Tireurs Partisans resistance group was formed following the invasion of Soviet Russia by the German Army in 1941. The Francs-Tireurs Partisans operated in both occupied and unoccupied France. The group mainly comprised of members of the French Communist Party and eventually became the military wing of the www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FRpartisans.htm   (119 words)

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Guy de Maupassant : The Lancer's Wife Meanwhile, the war continued in the east of France, which had been excluded from the armistice. It was after Bourbaki's defeat in the east of France. The next day we heard that the armistice had been extended to the eastern part of France, and we had to put an end to our little campaign. www.classicreader.com /read.php/sid.6/bookid.464   (4903 words)

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