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Before 1906, when the Senussi became involved in resistance against the French, they had been a "relatively peaceful religious sect of the Sahara Desert, opposed to fanaticism". [9] In the Italo-Turkish War (29 September 1911 – 18 October 1912) Italian forces occupied enclaves along the Libyan coast and the Senussi resisted from the interior ...
The other African theater of operations for French cavalry during World War I was Morocco. Since the establishment of the protectorate in 1912 (by the Treaty of Fes), numerous French units had been deployed there, but they occupied only the Moroccan plains (Chaouia, Gharb, and Saïs).
The Togoland campaign (6–26 August 1914) was a French and British invasion of the German colony of Togoland in West Africa, which began the West African campaign of the First World War.
Foreign Legion Units Involved: April 28, 1915 First Battle of Krithia: Lieutenant-colonel Nièger 3rd Battalion, 1st Marching Regiment of Africa: April 25, 1915 Landing at Kum Kale: Kum Kale, Turkey Lieutenant-colonel Nièger Approximately 600 men 3rd Battalion, 1st Marching Regiment of Africa
French West Africa; Marka, Bwa, Lela, Nuni, and Bobo people French victory Kaocen revolt (1916–1917) Location: Northern Niger. France. French West Africa; Tuareg guerrillas French victory Thái Nguyên uprising (1917–1918) Location: Northern Vietnam. France: Vietnamese rebels French victory Uprising suppressed. Occupation of Constantinople ...
The Army of Africa (French: Armée d’Afrique [aʁme d‿afʁik]) was an unofficial but commonly used term for those portions of the French Army stationed in French North Africa (Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia) from 1830 until the end of the Algerian War in 1962, including units made up of indigenous recruits.
A French force under General Louis Bonneau detached from the French First Corps and invaded the frontier on August 8, 1914. Opposing them was the German 7th Division. The capture of the area, preordained by the French Plan XVII, was to boost national pride—and to provide a guard force for the flank of subsequent invasions. [4]
The Agadir Crisis, Agadir Incident, or Second Moroccan Crisis was a brief crisis sparked by the deployment of a substantial force of French troops in the interior of Morocco in July 1911 and the deployment of the German gunboat SMS Panther to Agadir, a Moroccan Atlantic port. [1]