Officially the French Republic is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands
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French gains after the American Revolutionary War
Did France gain anything significant (territories or other concessions) at the conclusion of the American Revolutionary War? I tried to look up for it, but what I found were very minor (Senegal in ...
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What's the advantage of the infantry column formation in the Napoleonic Wars?
In movies/books set in the Napoleonic Wars, the British are normally deployed into lines and the French into columns. The columns are usually the advancing ones, charging into the line as the line ...
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Why was Khomeini in France? Who allowed him to leave and why?
I never knew that Khomeini was in France until I saw What was President Jimmy Carter's role in the Iranian Revolution?.
Why was Khomeini in France? Who allowed him to leave France and why?
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What caused the Iranian 1979 revolution to become Islamic?
How did an initially anti-Shah revolution become an Islamic revolution? Was it because of Khomenei's return to Iran such that he seized the Iranian revolution?
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How did France worsen its relationship with Turkey?
Several years back Turkey barred some French companies to participate in one of its arms procurement tender. Turkey doesn't allow French military air-crafts or ships to pass its territorial space. ...
