Even though millions of French troops were manning the defensive Maginot Line in early 1940, Hitler's brilliant blitzkrieg strategy caught the Allies by surprise, and Germany occupied France ...
An unexploded WW2 bomb found near Gare du Nord station in Paris has been defused, France's transport minister says All Eurostar trains to and from Paris are cancelled until the end of the day ...
Frustrated by Portugal's defiance of his Continental Blockade against trade with Great Britan, Napoleon ordered General Jerot to march French troops over the Pyrenees. On November 30, French ...