Tag: French Army

Webstore

Webstore: Defenders of France

Although much has been written of the German armoured forces and the defeat of the British at Dunkirk in the dark days of 1940, much too little has been written about the gallant stands made by the French army. The French started World War II as

Webstore

Webstore: Senegalese Tirailleurs Infantry section

West African troops from France,s colonies provided fierce and loyal troops to the French army in two World Wars. Though raised across France’s territories in west, central and east Africa, they took the title Senegalese in honour of the first black Tirailleur regiments formed in Senegal. Ever since the 1850s France had recruited troops from…