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Pages in category "French military personnel of World War I" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 586 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Battles generally refer to short periods of intense combat localized to a specific area and over a specific period of time. However, use of the terms in naming such events is not consistent. For example, the First Battle of the Atlantic was more or less an entire theatre of war, and the so-called battle lasted for the duration of the entire war ...
Aristide Briand – Prime Minister of France (1915–1917) Paul Painlevé – Prime Minister of France (1917) Georges Clemenceau – Prime Minister of France and Minister of War (1917–1920) Adolphe Messimy – Minister of War (1914) Alexandre Millerand – Minister of War (1914–1915) Marie-Jean-Lucien Lacaze – Minister of War (1917)
He served as the Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909, and again from 1917 to 1920. He is commonly nicknamed "Le Tigre" (The Tiger) and "Père-la-Victoire" (Father Victory) for his determination as a wartime leader. Succeeding Paul Painlevé as premier in November 1917, Clemenceau formed a coalition cabinet in which he was also minister ...
Georg von der Marwitz [19] − Cavalry general who commanded the 2nd Army on the Western Front (1916–1918), followed by commanding the 5th Army at the end of the war in 1918 Friedrich Sixt von Armin - Commanded the 4th Army (1917–1918) and commander-in-chief in the Flanders region, notably during the Battle of Passchendaele and the German ...
In World War II, he at first fought against and later collaborated with the Germans by leading the government of Vichy France. Louis Franchet d'Espèrey: 1856–1942 French Known as ‘Desperate Frankie’ by the British, d'Espèrey led the famous Vardar Offensive of 1918 that captured much of the Balkans and knocked Bulgaria out of the war.
Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre OM, GCB (French: [ʒozɛf ʒɔfʁ]; 12 January 1852 [2] – 3 January 1931) [3] was a French general who served as Commander-in-Chief of French forces on the Western Front from the start of World War I until the end of 1916.
Mexico [1] [2] was a neutral country in World War I, which lasted from 1914 to 1918.The war broke out in Europe in August 1914 as the Mexican Revolution was in the midst of full-scale civil war between factions that had helped oust General Victoriano Huerta from the presidency earlier that year.