Fighting French
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The Call to Honour, by General Charles de Gaulle, was the testimony of the man who made the Free Fighting French a reality almost singlehandedly after the fall of France.
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He had carefully studied a memorandum from the Fighting French.
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The damage was repaired, but the Fighting French thereafter fired so indiscriminately on approaching planes that for many weeks Pan Am pilots landed at another airport.
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Said the Fighting French: the sailors enlisted not for bribes or bonuses, but for moral reasons.
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Furious Giraudists charged that the Fighting French were usurping power, plotting a coup.
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