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rural guerrilla bands of
French and
Belgian Resistance fighters,
called maquisards,
during World War II. Initially, they were
composed of young,
mostly working-class...
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there was an
unofficial amnesty for
those released convicts who had been
maquisards.
Their previous sentences were not remitted, but as long as they refrained...
- "breathless prose" in
which this
maquisard remembered his
first night out in the
forest was
typical of the
maquisards whose main
traits were
their innocence...
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evade enemy forces. In the
early morning hours of 1
November 1954, FLN
maquisards (guerrillas)
attacked military and
civilian targets throughout Algeria...
- on
loyal Montagnard ethnic minorities referred to as "partisans" or "
maquisards",
called the
Groupement de
Commandos Mixtes Aéroportés (Composite Airborne...
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Large remote areas were no-go
zones for them and free
zones for the
maquisards so-called
after the
maquis shrubland that
provided ideal terrain for guerrilla...
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blind if not
wearing his thick-lensed eyegl****es, but he
impressed the
maquisards with his
immaculately tailored military uniform. Both
proved to be effective...
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called maquis, in France. Witherington's network,
comprising about 2,000
maquisard fighters after the
invasion of
Normandy on 6 June 1944, was especially...
- to 10,000
German soldiers invaded the m****if and
killed more than 600
maquisards and 200 civilians. It was Germany's
largest anti-partisan
operation in...
- Haute-Levée 3.6 km 5.6% 194.5 Côte du
Rosier 4.4 km 5.9% 207.0 Col du
Maquisard 2.5 km 5.0% 219.0 Côte de la
Redoute 2.0 km 8.9% 231.0 Côte des Forges...
