It takes as its starting point the French levée en masse of 1793, which replaced former theories and regulations concerning the obligation of military service with a universal concept more ...

On July 11 Louis XVI ordered the army to disband it ... one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded ...

The soldiers had fought alongside the French during World War II ... 35 and 400 West African soldiers who fought for the French Army in the Battle of France in 1940 were killed on Dec.