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| 1190 | Philip II |  |
| Paris The forces of Richard I & Philip II join up at Sicily |
| 1208 | Waldo, Peter | |
| Vatican Innocent III preaches the Waldensian Crusade against the followers of Peter Waldo |
| 1242 | Louis IX | |
| April Chinon Louis IX begins to assemble a force at Chinon |
| 1248 | Louis IX | |
| Aigues Mortes Sails to Egypt from the Rhone port of Aigues -Mortes for the crusades |
| 1789 | Broglie, Fran‡ois-Marie de | |
| July Paris The military Governor of Paris brings in extra troops to defend the French capital |
| July Paris The military Governor of Paris brings in troops to defend the French capital city |
| 1793 | Carnot, Lazare Nicholas Marguerite | |
| Paris Placed in charge of organization & direction of the armies |
| 1799 | Ney | |
| Paris Organizes the Army of the Rhine |
| 1808 | Napoleon I | |
| River Ebro A French army is assembled under Ney & Napoleon & Joseph is reinstated in Madrid |
| 1870 | MacMahon, Marie Edme Patrice Maurice de | |
| 12th Aug Chalons MacMahon regroups his forces at Chalons |
| 1870 | Napoleon III | |
| 28th July France mobilizes its forces but the frontier fortresses are not ready for a siege |
| 1900 | Classe, Theophile de | |
| 27th July Paris France anounces she will send 20 warships to Chinese waters |
| 1914 | Foch, Ferdinand | |
| Coordinate the Allied forces between the Oise & the Nth Sea |
| 1914 | Poncare, Raymond Nicholas Landry | |
| 2nd Aug Issues the mobilization proclamation to France |
| 1918 | Foch, Ferdinand | |
| July July-August, launches counter-attacks after the arrival of 300,000 Americans a month |
| 1935 | Reynaud, Paul | |
| Paris Proposes a Bill for 6 armoured divisions with 500 heavy tanks, the Bill is defeated |
| 1939 | Gamelin, Maurice Gustave | |
| 12th Sep Abbeville Advises the Anglo-French War Council it should distract Germany's invasion of Poland |
| 1940 | Billotte, Pierre | |
| 12th May London Appointed to co-ordinate the operations of the BEF & Belgian Army |
| 1940 | Darlan, Jean Francois | |
| Vichy Orders the fleet to Nth Africa provoking attacks by the British Mediterranean fleet |
| 1940 | Gaulle, Charles Andre Marie Joseph de | |
| Jan Draws up a memo for armoured units to counter German invasion of Holland & Belgium |
| 9th June London Arranges transportation of 500,000 French soldiers to continue the war in nth Africa |
| 1944 | Gaulle, Charles Andre Marie Joseph de | |
| Dec Moscow Visits Moscow to raise arms for the French Army |
