Sentence examples for a corps of french from inspiring English sources

A pause of nearly two weeks followed on most of the front, but in the north the Americans and a corps of French African troops continued to make a gradual penetration, which brought them within 20 miles (32 km) of Bizerte.

C. A corps of elite blue-bereted French mountain troops.

In modern times the term legion has been applied to a corps of foreign volunteers or mercenaries, such as the French provincial legions of Francis I and the second-line formations of Napoleon.

The situation changed dramatically with the French military expedition to Egypt in 1798, which brought with it a corps of scholars to examine the surviving ancient monuments.

urging the establishment of a corps of public-interest lawyers.

The yellow shirts also had a corps of armed guards.

It didn't have a corps of kamikaze operatives.

She also began assembling a corps of volunteers.

NASA had neglected to recruit a corps of philosophers.

She speaks in French; among the notable details of her discussion is the fact that, when she was first sent to the camp, in 1942, it was run entirely by the French government and staffed by French police officers, as well as by the youth corps of a French right-wing paramilitary militia.

Nevertheless, at the outbreak of World War II, Abbas enlisted in the medical corps of the French Army.