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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.
Hunter, John C. "The Problem of the French Birth Rate on the Eve of World War I" French Historical Studies 2#4 (1962), pp. 490–503 online; Hutton, Patrick H. et al. Historical Dictionary of the Third French Republic, 1870–1940 (2 vol 1986) online edition vol 1 [permanent dead link ]; online edition vol 2 [permanent dead link ]
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.
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 French, distracted by the rebellion in southern Algeria, had left the south of Tunisia undefended. The Senussi found little support from the local population and the Senussi leaders were angry at Khalifa ben Asker for drawing the French into battle. Their war was against the Italians and the British and did wished to avoid angerin the French.
The French were eager to regain the land ceded to Germany in the Treaty of Fez in 1911. The first Allied expeditions into the colony on 6 August 1914 were from the east conducted by French troops from French Equatorial Africa under General Joseph Gaudérique Aymerich .
The Thiaroye massacre [a] was a massacre of French West African soldiers, committed by the French Army on the morning of 1 December 1944 near Dakar, French Senegal.Those killed were members of the Tirailleurs Sénégalais, and were veterans of the 1940 Battle of France who had been recently liberated from prison camps in Europe.