People

What were the Free French forces?

Link to this answer

CloseClose

Link to this answer

Share this credible answer with others. Simply paste this code into your blog or Web page:

<a href="http://qanda.encyclopedia.com/question/were-free-french-forces-85046.html" >What were the Free French forces?</a>
E-mail this answer Link to this answer

De Gaulle opposed the Franco-German armistice and fled (June, 1940) to London, where he organized the Free French forces and rallied several French colonies to his movement. He was sentenced to death in absentia by a French military court. The Free French forces were successful in Syria, Madagascar, and N Africa.

Answer verified with
Get more facts and information about de Gaulle, Charles . Or, view the full encyclopedia entry from The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.

Similar questions: Why did de Gaulle leave France? What did the Free French forces do? Why was de Gaulle sentenced to death? Who created the Free French forces? [ Hide these questions ]

Related research questions

Related research articles

Beaucoup tribulations: French, Americans give each other the eye.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service ...1944, to help free France from the Nazis...Americans of the French. Those pushy, power...generations. The French word for cowboy...from Texas _ the French do not even have...willingness to use military force, it's: Bush...If his approach were different _ more...
Halting French economic thrust.(COMMENTARY)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times ...United States and its free market allies? France...United States. The French are well aware that...they actively try to force others to raise taxes...It appears the French never learned envy is a sin.) The French try to disguise their...Savings Directive that forces other ...
Fourteen French footwear firms to showcase broad range of product at WSA....
Magazine article from: Footwear News ...French are arriving in force at the Western Shoe...a full-fledged French Pavilion. With the...promotional arm of the French Footwear Federation...slippers. "The French footwear industry...sandal uppers for Free Lance and No Name...we wish the dollar were more like 5.4 francs...
The Anglo-French intervention in the Levant June 8 to July 11, 1941.(TRAINING...
Magazine article from: Infantry Magazine ...the Habbaniya Air Force Base led to reevaluation...political leaders were concerned that Vichy (pro-Nazi) French occupation of Syria...combined British forces and Free French forces in a plan...June 1941. The aims were to occupy Syria and...
French peacekeepers; The tried lessons from Bosnia.(OPED)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times ...Srebrenica massacre, the French government refused...the commander of French forces and U.N. Protection Force in Bosnia, to testify...Mladic released the two French pilots who had been...British and the Americans were busy plucking war criminals...
See all results at HighBeam

HighBeam gives you access to newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles plus press releases, facts, information, and biographies from thousands of sources.