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  2. Timeline of French history - Wikipedia

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    Pastry War: Victorious French troops withdraw from Mexico after their demands were satisfied. 1848: February: February Revolution or French Revolution of 1848: Republican riots forced King Louis-Philippe to abdicate and flee to England. 20 December: Louis Napoleon Bonaparte starts his term as the first president of the French Republic.

  3. French Aerostatic Corps - Wikipedia

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    The French Aerostatic Corps or Company of Aeronauts (French: compagnie d'aérostiers) was the world's first balloon unit, [1] founded in 1794 to use balloons, primarily for reconnaissance. Experimentation

  4. Pierre Testu-Brissy - Wikipedia

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    Gaston Tissandier's Histoire des ballons et des aéronautes célèbres (History of famous balloons and aeronauts) (published in 1887) described Testu-Brissy's earliest ballooning thus : [3] [Note 1] During the last years of the eighteenth century, besides the military applications by men of heart and patriotism, balloons continued to contribute ...

  5. Category:French history timelines - Wikipedia

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  6. History of France - Wikipedia

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    The most important of these conquests for French history was the Norman Conquest by William the Conqueror. [15] An important part of the French aristocracy also involved itself in the crusades, and French knights founded and ruled the Crusader states. The French were also active in the Iberian Reconquista to Rechristianize Muslim Spain and ...

  7. Artillery of France in the Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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    15th-century culveriners. By the early 15th century, both armies had a wide variety of gunpowder weapons. [1] Large guns were developed, known as bombards (French bombardes), weighing up to 3 tonnes and firing stone balls of up to 150 kg (300 lbs), which seem to have been more prevalent among the French than among the English until 1420. [1]

  8. Category:History of France by period - Wikipedia

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  9. History of France (1900–present) - Wikipedia

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    That would be compounded by the massive French losses of World War I, roughly estimated at 1.4 million French dead including civilians (or nearly 10% of the active adult male population) and four times as many wounded — and World War II, estimated at 593,000 French dead (one-and-a-half times the number of American dead), of which 470,000 were ...