Featured in frenchBYTeam MightyApr 17, 2023ShareThomas-Alexandre Dumas: The Black French general who stole Napoleon’s thunderReaders are probably familiar with author Alexandre Dumas, the Frenchman who gave the world such classics as “The Three Musketeers”… BYTeam MightyApr 17, 2023ShareBYTeam MightyFeb 21, 2023ShareThe worst Nazi collaborator was a French national hero in World War IWhen Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, the Third French Republic, along with Britain, demanded the immediate withdrawal of German… BYTeam MightyFeb 21, 2023ShareBYMiguel OrtizFeb 9, 2023ShareThis elite French unit developed the synchronized sniper shotIn 2009, the rescue of Captain Phillips from Somali pirates made the synchronized shot a public sensation. The amount of… BYMiguel OrtizFeb 9, 2023ShareBYTeam MightyDec 15, 2022ShareThis French queen was the only woman to lead a Crusade – and she was goodThe Crusades usually calls to mind European knights duking it out with Islamic warriors in long and protracted series of… BYTeam MightyDec 15, 2022ShareBYTeam MightyNov 9, 2022ShareWhy Napoleon wasn’t executed after his defeat at WaterlooIn the modern era, if a military officer took control of a government, went to war and conquered some neighbors… BYTeam MightyNov 9, 2022ShareBYTeam MightyNov 9, 2022ShareA single French airplane bombed Berlin before the fall of FranceBy June 7, 1940, France was fighting for its life. On May 10th of that year, Nazi Germany invaded Belgium… BYTeam MightyNov 9, 2022ShareBYTeam MightyOct 13, 2022ShareThe last invasion of Britain was stopped cold by wine and Welsh womenIn 1797, Britain had been at war with Revolutionary France for nearly five years and it was not going well… BYTeam MightyOct 13, 2022ShareBYTeam MightyAug 28, 2023ShareThis French military officer was the real-life ‘Last Samurai’By the time Brunet arrived in Japan with the French military mission, he was already a veteran of the French Invasion of Mexico. BYTeam MightyAug 28, 2023ShareBYTeam MightyAug 24, 2022ShareThe 5 fastest conquests of France in military historyThe French, despite actually being very good in a war, take a beating as the butt of military history jokes…. BYTeam MightyAug 24, 2022ShareBYTeam MightyAug 22, 2022ShareToday in military history: A young Rommel captures French artillery during WW1On Jan. 29, 1915, German lieutenant Erwin Rommel led the gutsy capture of French artillery positions during The Great War…. BYTeam MightyAug 22, 2022ShareBYTeam MightyAug 26, 2021ShareWhy the French Army thought it could win at Dien Bien PhuMore than a decade before the United States’ involvement in Vietnam, the country was controlled as a French colony. Even… BYTeam MightyAug 26, 2021ShareBYTeam MightyJun 24, 2020ShareLearn about the French Foreign Legion from an American enlisteeHow many military branches make you surrender your passport, catalog everything you brought to the recruitment center and give you a new identity, all before you sign your enlistment contract? That’s the French Foreign Legion and that’s ex… BYTeam MightyJun 24, 2020Share
BYTeam MightyApr 17, 2023ShareThomas-Alexandre Dumas: The Black French general who stole Napoleon’s thunderReaders are probably familiar with author Alexandre Dumas, the Frenchman who gave the world such classics as “The Three Musketeers”… BYTeam MightyApr 17, 2023Share
BYTeam MightyFeb 21, 2023ShareThe worst Nazi collaborator was a French national hero in World War IWhen Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, the Third French Republic, along with Britain, demanded the immediate withdrawal of German… BYTeam MightyFeb 21, 2023Share
BYMiguel OrtizFeb 9, 2023ShareThis elite French unit developed the synchronized sniper shotIn 2009, the rescue of Captain Phillips from Somali pirates made the synchronized shot a public sensation. The amount of… BYMiguel OrtizFeb 9, 2023Share
BYTeam MightyDec 15, 2022ShareThis French queen was the only woman to lead a Crusade – and she was goodThe Crusades usually calls to mind European knights duking it out with Islamic warriors in long and protracted series of… BYTeam MightyDec 15, 2022Share
BYTeam MightyNov 9, 2022ShareWhy Napoleon wasn’t executed after his defeat at WaterlooIn the modern era, if a military officer took control of a government, went to war and conquered some neighbors… BYTeam MightyNov 9, 2022Share
BYTeam MightyNov 9, 2022ShareA single French airplane bombed Berlin before the fall of FranceBy June 7, 1940, France was fighting for its life. On May 10th of that year, Nazi Germany invaded Belgium… BYTeam MightyNov 9, 2022Share
BYTeam MightyOct 13, 2022ShareThe last invasion of Britain was stopped cold by wine and Welsh womenIn 1797, Britain had been at war with Revolutionary France for nearly five years and it was not going well… BYTeam MightyOct 13, 2022Share
BYTeam MightyAug 28, 2023ShareThis French military officer was the real-life ‘Last Samurai’By the time Brunet arrived in Japan with the French military mission, he was already a veteran of the French Invasion of Mexico. BYTeam MightyAug 28, 2023Share
BYTeam MightyAug 24, 2022ShareThe 5 fastest conquests of France in military historyThe French, despite actually being very good in a war, take a beating as the butt of military history jokes…. BYTeam MightyAug 24, 2022Share
BYTeam MightyAug 22, 2022ShareToday in military history: A young Rommel captures French artillery during WW1On Jan. 29, 1915, German lieutenant Erwin Rommel led the gutsy capture of French artillery positions during The Great War…. BYTeam MightyAug 22, 2022Share
BYTeam MightyAug 26, 2021ShareWhy the French Army thought it could win at Dien Bien PhuMore than a decade before the United States’ involvement in Vietnam, the country was controlled as a French colony. Even… BYTeam MightyAug 26, 2021Share
BYTeam MightyJun 24, 2020ShareLearn about the French Foreign Legion from an American enlisteeHow many military branches make you surrender your passport, catalog everything you brought to the recruitment center and give you a new identity, all before you sign your enlistment contract? That’s the French Foreign Legion and that’s ex… BYTeam MightyJun 24, 2020Share
