French Army in World War I

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During World War I, France was one of the Triple Entente powers allied against the Central Powers. Although fighting occurred worldwide, the bulk of the French Army's operations occurred in Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Alsace-Lorraine along what came to be known as the Western Front, which consisted mainly of trench warfare. During the four-year conflict, French forces inflicted nearly three million casualties on the German Army, more than any other Allied army. In the early periods of the conflict, the French Army was neither as strong numerically nor as well endowed with heavy guns as the German Army was. By the later stages of the war, the French Army had been described as “the most modern army in the world,” as it fielded the most tanks and airplanes of any Allied army, vast parks of heavy artillery employing barrage tactics, and modern infantry specialists skilled in fire-and-movement tactics in cooperation with the supporting arms. France had experienced nearly 1.4 million men...

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