While France embraced the formal regulation of historical memory regarding its colonial past nearly two decades ago with the ...

The British Empire stretched over 13 million square miles across several continents—23 percent of the world's land—at its height in 1922, whence comes the phrase: "The sun never sets on the ...

France had two bites of the cherry when it came to empire-building. Its North American possessions had already been lost when French leaders began a colonial reboot in the 19th century. The second ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Battle of Empires: 1914-1918 - French Campaign The first campaign of the series - Battle of Empires: France - is devoted to the battles between the ...

Those who joined the Tirailleurs Senegalais not only came from Senegal but also from across France’s African empire ... the colonial authority viewed as a mutiny. On 1 December, the French ...

For French historian Benjamin Stora, "Le Pen is fundamentally a man of the Fourth Republic, and this is the moment when the colonial empire falters." Arriving too late for the Indochina War ...