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The 23/24 attacks scored some direct hits on gun positions in the Marseille area and roaming fighter bombers took on targets of opportunity. [2]: 125 On 21 August the approaches to Marseille were cut, isolating the Marseille garrison. [7] Units closed in on the suburbs. The Germans blew up the Marseille Transporter Bridge to try to block the port.
1423 - Sack of Marseille [fr; es] by the forces of Aragón, led by Alfonso V. [2] 1453 - Fortifications constructed. 1481 - Marseille united with Provence. 1486 - Marseille becomes part of France. [1] 1524 - Town besieged by forces of Francis I. [2] 1531 - Château d'If built. 1542 - Église Saint-Ferréol les Augustins (church) dedicated.
Operation Dragoon (initially Operation Anvil) was the code name for the landing operation of the Allied invasion of Provence (Southern France) on 15 August 1944. Although initially designed to be executed in conjunction with Operation Overlord, the June 1944 Allied landing in Normandy, the lack of enough resources led to the cancellation of the second landing.
Over the course of the 18th century, the port's defences were improved [30] and Marseille became more important as France's leading military port in the Mediterranean. In 1720, the last Great Plague of Marseille , a form of the Black Death , killed 100,000 people in the city and the surrounding provinces. [ 31 ]
The 1536 Italian War of 1536–1538, Spanish invasion of France The 1562 English expedition to France , led by England during the French Wars of Religion The 1746 War of the Austrian Succession , Austria-Italian forces supported by the British navy attempted to invade southern France
An invasion is a military offensive in which sizable number of combatants of one geopolitical entity aggressively enter territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objectives of establishing or re-establishing control, retaliation for real or perceived actions, liberation of previously lost territory, forcing the partition of a country, gaining concessions or access to ...
This is a list of wars involving modern France from the abolition of the French monarchy and the establishment of the French First Republic on 21 September 1792 until the current Fifth Republic. For wars involving the Kingdom of France (987–1792), see List of wars involving the Kingdom of France .
France declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939 under the Franco-Polish Military Alliance following the invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939. A French force invaded the Saarland in western Germany in the Saar Offensive led by general Louis Faury, who prior to the war had been head of the French Military Mission to Poland.