Frustrated by Portugal's defiance of his Continental Blockade against trade with Great Britan, Napoleon ordered General Jerot to march French troops ... Peninsula another world — with people ...

World War II ends. Allied powers must decide ... The French receive financial support from the United States, which sees the French war against the Communist Ho as part of the Cold War struggle ...

In his New Year’s address, Alassane Ouattara, president of Ivory Coast since 2010—when he took power with the aid of French ...

France's President Emmanuel Macron has paid tribute to former French Resistance activist and ... of the groups that fought the country's World War II occupation by Nazi Germany, died Thursday ...

They belonged to my great­great-grandmother." A young girl pins a flower on a World War I French soldier in Lorraine, France. Photograph by Harriet Chalmers Adams, Nat Geo Image Collection A ...

Ivory Coast has announced that French troops will withdraw from the West African nation, further reducing the military ...

The wreck of a World War One German submarine is gradually resurfacing ... The 26 crewmen surrendered to French authorities.

World War II U.S. Army veteran Ray Terwillegar and ... Tagand awarded him the French Legion of Honor in appreciation of his U.S. Army service that helped liberate France from Nazi occupation ...

The first shots of World War One are fired in Africa. By 1914 the German Empire has four colonies in East, West and South Africa. British and French forces invade Togoland the site of a key German ...

All over France you can find memorials and statues erected to remember the contributions made by French officers and soldiers in World War One. What’s unusual about this statue is that the ...