However, writes General de Lattre, if the 2nd C.A. did not have the deserved joy of entering Alsace first, it is to him that it owes its deliverance in part. By annihilating an enemy division, by drawing into the mountains six battalions from the Belfort gap, four taken from the front of the 6th C.A
taking the flag Originally, the word dragon designates a fighter who can fight either on foot or on horseback. It was Turenne who created the first two regiments, La Ferté and du Roi, in 1668. There were 14 in 1678, 43 in 1690, reduced to 18 in 1789. the sentinel by Messonier The dragoons a
Baptized Operation Vulcan, its plan fixed the major offensive on May 6, after two preliminary operations:• On May 4, the 19th French corps would attack the first to try to blow up the hinge of the Zaghouan, at the junction of the two enemy armies, an action which had the effect of attracting the opp
The Canudos War was a conflict that took place between sertanejos led by Antônio Conselheiro and soldiers of the republican state in 1896 and 1897. The War from Straws , which ran from November 7, 1896 to October 5, 1897, was one of the most emblematic events of the beginning of the period republic