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With Snow on Their Boots: The Tragic Odyssey of the Russian Expeditionary Force in France During World War I, 1997, ISBN 0-312-17356-3; Gilbert Cahen : « Le temps retrouvé du soldat russe Anissim Ilitch Otmakhov - France 1916-1920 », ISBN 978-2-7466-5606-2, 288 pages, 30 photos, 2 cartes. Auto-édition Gilbert Cahen Versailles, mars 2013.
The Russian Expeditionary Force was a World War I military force sent to France by the Russian Empire. In 1915 the French requested that Russian troops be sent to fight alongside their own army on the Western Front. Initially they asked for 300,000 men, an absurdly high figure, probably based on their assumptions about Russia's 'unlimited ...
Russian Empire: Indecisive 19 August 1812 Battle of Valutino: Smolensk First French Empire Russian Empire: French victory 22 August 1812 Battle of Dahlenkirchen: Livonia First French Empire Kingdom of Prussia Russian Empire: Russian victory N.S.: 5 September 1812 O.S.: 24 August 1812 Battle of Shevardino: Moscow First French Empire Napoleonic Italy
Russian Expeditionary Force in France; a World War I military expedition of the Russian Empire Russian Legion ; the remains of the unit as a volunteer internationalist force after the withdrawal of Russia from WWI
Georges Clemenceau, the prime minister of France who decided to intervene militarily in the Russian Civil War on behalf of the anti-Bolshevik forces, partly for economic reasons. On 23 December 1917, the British and French governments had divided the region into zones of operations: Crimea , Donbas , and Ukraine remained on the French side. [ 8 ]
The "Patriotic War of 1812" is also occasionally referred to as simply the "War of 1812", a term which should not be confused with the conflict between Great Britain and the United States, also known as the War of 1812. In Russian literature written before the Russian revolution, the war was occasionally described as "the invasion of twelve ...
The Siberian intervention or Siberian expedition of 1918–1922 was the dispatch of troops of the Entente powers to the Russian Maritime Provinces as part of a larger effort by the western powers, Japan, and China to support White Russian forces and the Czechoslovak Legion against Soviet Russia and its allies during the Russian Civil War.
The Russian Expeditionary Forces in France and the Balkans (Russian: избирательный округ русских экспедиционных войск во Франции и на Балканах) formed an electoral district for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. [1] [2] The constituency had some 20,000 eligible voters. [1]