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The Russian Expeditionary Force [REF] (French: Corps Expéditionnaire Russe en France, Russian: Экспедиционный корпус Русской армии во Франции и Греции) was a World War I military force sent to France and Greece by the Russian Empire.
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 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
Russian Chapel and Cemetery at Saint-Hilaire-le-Grand The cemetery is located in an area known as "L'Espérance", near the French military camp at Mourmelon, and was erected in memory of 4,000 Russian Expeditionary Force (REF) soldiers killed on the battlefields of Champagne fighting alongside the French and British armies. Their brigades ...
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]
The Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War consisted of a series of multi-national military expeditions that began in 1918. The initial impetus behind the interventions was to secure munitions and supply depots from falling into the German Empire's hands, particularly after the Bolsheviks signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, and to rescue the Allied forces that had become trapped within ...
Russian forces threatened to shoot down a French surveillance aircraft patrolling in international airspace over the Black Sea, a signal of increasingly aggressive behavior from Moscow as its ...
North Russia Expeditionary Force (also known as the Polar Bear Expedition): approximately 5,000 personnel from the US Army. including the: 310th Engineers, 339th Infantry, 337th Field Hospital, and 337th Ambulance Company. Also the 167th and 168th Railroad Companies, which were sent to Murmansk to operate the Murmansk to Petrograd line.