Second French peacekeeper dies after ambush blamed on Hezbollah
France 24 →A second French soldier died on Wednesday from wounds suffered in a weekend ambush against UN peacekeepers in Lebanon blamed on Hezbollah, President Emmanuel Macron said.
French Patrol Is Ambushed
Paris, Feb. 10--(AP)--French patrol fell into a German ambush before dawn today and about 70 men were killed. The casualties were the heaviest suffered by the French so far in any single skirmish of patrol warfare. Usually only two or three soldiers have been killed in brief exchanges of fire.
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Battle of France
On 7 September, in accordance with the Franco-Polish alliance, France began the Saar Offensive with an advance from the Maginot Line 5 km into the Saar. Following the Saar Offensive, a period of inaction followed — the Phoney War — punctuated by deadly patrol clashes along the front, until Germany's offensive in the West on 10 May 1940.
Wikipedia →Dunkirk evacuation
Before the operation was completed, the prognosis had been gloomy, with Churchill warning the House of Commons on 28 May to expect 'hard and heavy tidings.' more than 338,000 Allied soldiers were evacuated from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between 26 May and 4 June 1940.
Wikipedia →Appeal of 18 June
After the war, de Gaulle's 18 June broadcast was often identified as the beginning of the French Resistance, and the beginning of the process of liberating France from the yoke of German occupation. He was the first French public figure to oppose an armistice with Germany, and the speech gave reasons why continuing to fight the war was not hopeless.
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