Fighting French
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The misgivings were not allayed when General Eisenhower tartly announced that the Fighting French announcement of the request and the delay surprised him.
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While going or coming he talked with General Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Fighting French, and with wise old Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa.
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Reports that a French division under General Jacques Leclerc, hero of the Fighting French African campaign, would spearhead the Allied advance into Paris threw most Vichyites into a panic.
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In pledging a liberated France self-government based on the laws of the Third Republic, in his disavowal of the German armistice terms and Vichy's racial legislation, Giraud was in agreement with the Fighting French.
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Tired and rather haggard, General Georges Catroux, Fighting French emissary to the North African government of General Henri Honor� Giraud, arrived in London last week and registered as usual at Claridge's.
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