As these officers talk we begin to have an understanding of the forces that divide the French Army and of the more powerful forces that draw it together; we begin to see why so many officers who ...

PARIS -- Dispatches from Indo-China said tonight that President Ho Chi Minh and his Viet Nam Republic government had been forced to flee Hanoi, their capital. Viet Nam troops attacked the French ...

Prussian and German forces defeat French army, invade France and besiege Paris. Napoleon III overthrown. France loses Alsace-Lorraine to the newly unified Germany. 1870 September - Third Republic ...