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The Army of Observation (Armée d'Observation) numbered approximately 55,000 men. Its role was to defend the country's borders. Commander: Lieutenant-General Baron Félix Chazal. Chief of Staff: Colonel Monoyer 1st Army Corps (Ier corps d'armée) Commanded by Lieutenant-General Sapin; 2nd Army Corps (IIe corps d'armée) Commanded by Prince Philippe
The Territorial Army was created by law on 27 July 1872 which established the principles of the military reserve. [1] This law established a military service obligation of twenty years for French men as follows: five years in the active army; four years in the Army Reserve; five years in the Territorial Army; six years in the Territorial Army ...
The Army of the Rhine (French: Armée du Rhin) was a French military unit that fought in the Franco-Prussian War. It was created after the declaration of war on July 18 1870. The unit participated in combats in Lorraine, then divided to form a second army, the Army of Châlons. The Army of the Rhine surrendered on 27 October at the Siege of Metz.
Total deployment : 2,000,740 [2] ... French soldiers drill at IIe Chambrière camp near Metz, 1870. The French Army consisted in peacetime of approximately 426,000 ...
The Armée de la Loire was a French army of the Franco-Prussian War.It was formed in October 1870 by Léon Gambetta, interior minister and minister for war in the Government of National Defence, then taking refuge in Tours after the French defeat at Sedan on 2 September 1870 had destroyed the Imperial field army.
French military participation from 1800 to 1999; The French Army: Royal, Revolutionary and Imperial; An excellent guide to French Medieval warfare; France in the American Revolution; French Army from Revolution to the First Empire, Illustrations by Hippolyte Bellangé from the book P.-M. Laurent de L`Ardeche «Histoire de Napoleon», 1843
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The French Army, officially known as the Land Army (French: Armée de terre, lit. ' Army of Land ' ), is the principal land warfare force of France , and the largest component of the French Armed Forces ; it is responsible to the Government of France , alongside the French Navy , French Air and Space Force , and the National Gendarmerie . [ 3 ]