After France surrendered to Germany, the British saw the French Navy as a potential threat in Axis hands. To prevent it from ...
The son of Reginald Lewis, who lived in Dereham before he died, has received the Legion of Honour on behalf of his father.
France's President Emmanuel Macron has paid tribute to former French Resistance activist ... of the groups that fought the country's World War II occupation by Nazi Germany, died Thursday in ...
The Legion d'Honneur, or Legion of Honour, is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil, and was established in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte.
France was still at war with Great Britain, and Bonaparte hoped to disrupt British trade routes to India and establish French domination in the exotic east. He eluded a British fleet, captured the ...
Divine voices guided a young girl to lead the French against the English. Burned as a heretic in 1431, the Maid of Orléans was both shaped and destroyed by the religious fervor and politics.