| Suez Crisis Suez_Crisis
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| Suez Crisis Talk:Suez_Crisis
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| Battle of Dien Bien Phu The Battle of Dien Bien Phu (; ) was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist revolutionaries. The battle occurred between March and May 1954 and culminated in a comprehensive French defeat that effectively ended the war. Battle_of_Dien_Bien_Phu
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| Algerian War The Algerian War, also known as the Algerian War of Independence or in , was a conflict between France and Algerian independence movements from 1954 to 1962, which led to Algeria gaining her independence from France. An important decolonization war, it was a complex conflict characterized by guerrilla warfare, maquis fighting, terrorism against civilians, use of torture on both sides and counter-terrorism operations by the French Army. Algerian_War
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| Army of the Republic of Vietnam The Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) was the land-based military forces of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), which existed from October 26 1955 until the fall of Saigon on April 30 1975. The ARVN is often erroneously used as a collective term to refer to all South Vietnamese military forces, including the Vietnam Air Force and Republic of Vietnam Navy. They are estimated to have suffered 1,170,000 casualties during the Vietnam War. Army_of_the_Republic_of_Vietnam
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| First Indochina War The First Indochina War (also known as the French Indochina War, the The Anti-French War, the Franco-Vietnamese War, the Franco-Vietminh War, the Indochina War, the Dirty War in France and as the French War in contemporary Vietnam) was fought in French Indochina from December 19, 1946, until August 1, 1954, between the French Union’s French Far East Expeditionary Corps, led by France and supported by Bảo Äại’s Vietnamese National Army against the Việt Minh, led by Hồ Chà Minh and Võ Nguyên Giáp. First_Indochina_War
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| Karabiner 98k Talk:Karabiner_98k
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| Armoured train An armoured train is a train protected with armour. Usually they are equipped with railroad cars armed with artillery and machine guns. They were mostly used during the late 19th and early 20th century, when they offered an innovative way to quickly move large amounts of firepower into position. Their use was discontinued because modern road vehicles became much more powerful and offered more flexibility, and because armoured trains were too vulnerable to track sabotage as well as attacks from the air. Armoured_train
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| Roman Karmen Roman Lazarevich Karmen () (16 November 1906 Odessa – 28 April 1978 Moscow) was a Soviet General, a war camera-man and film director and one of the most influential figures in documentary film making; he could be considered USSR's answer to Leni Riefenstahl. (Note from a fellow filmmaker Roman_Karmen
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| Organisation de l'armée secrète Talk:Organisation_de_l'armée_secrète
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| Battle of Vinh Yen Talk:Battle_of_Vinh_Yen
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| Å koda Works Talk:Å koda_Works
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| Pierre Lagaillarde Pierre Lagaillarde (Courbevoie, 15 May 1931) was French politician, and a founder of the Organisation armée secrète (OAS).Lagaillarde was a lawyer at Blida in Algeria, a reserve officer of the paratroopers, and an elected deputy of Alger. He took the presidency of the Association générale des étudiants d'Alger (General Association of Alger's Students) in 1957, and also took part in the Alger insurrection of May 1958, which brought Charles de Gaulle back to power. Pierre_Lagaillarde
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| Vietnamese National Army The Vietnamese National Army or Vietnam National Army (, "National Army of Vietnam") was the State of Vietnam's military force created in 1949 at the instigation of French General de Lattre. It was commanded by Vietnamese General Hinh and was loyal to Bao Dai. Vietnamese_National_Army
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| Operation Bretagne Operation_Bretagne
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| Vietnam War/Archive 9 Talk:Vietnam_War/Archive_9
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