FFL

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military organization resistance movement

FFL refers to the Free French Forces, the World War II military units that continued fighting against the Axis powers after France’s 1940 defeat under the leadership of Charles de Gaulle.

Aliases (1)

Free French Forces ×50

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	military organization → resistance movement →
alliedWith	Allied powers → Soviet Union → United Kingdom → United States →
alsoKnownAs	FFL → Forces françaises libres →
conflict	World War II →
controlledTerritory	French Equatorial Africa → French Polynesia → New Caledonia →
country	France →
dissolved	1944 →
foundedBy	Charles de Gaulle →
garrison	Brazzaville →
headquartersLocation	London →
ideology	Gaullism →
inception	1940 →
leader	Charles de Gaulle →
mergedInto	French Forces of the Interior → Provisional Government of the French Republic armed forces →
militaryBranch	Free French Air Forces → Free French Army → Free French Navy →
motto	Honneur et Patrie →
notableCommander	Georges Catroux → Henri Giraud → Marie-Pierre Kœnig → Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque →
opposedTo	Axis powers → Nazi Germany → Vichy France →
participatedIn	Battle of Bir Hakeim → Battle of Gabon → East African campaign → Italian campaign → Liberation of Paris → Operation Dragoon → Syrian–Lebanese campaign →
partOf	Free France →
recruitedFrom	Foreign volunteers → French colonial troops → Metropolitan French volunteers →
symbol	Cross of Lorraine →
theaterOfOperations	European theatre of World War II → Middle East theatre of World War II → North African campaign → Pacific theatre of World War II →
usedLanguage	French →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Free French Forces → Free French Forces →	alsoKnownAs