![]() ![]() ![]() To make this a reality, a military force urgently needed re-establishing, a challenge which, in the second half of 1940, seemed almost impossible, given how disparate were the elements to have come forward, how scant the resources and how dependent the first troops were on their British ally for equipment. Driven by the same rejection of defeat, these men and women intended to carry on the fight, feeling very strongly that it could not all be over with the crushing defeat of the Battle of France.īy organising these willing volunteers, de Gaulle hoped to keep France in the war. In late June 1940, whether or not they had heard General de Gaulle’s call to arms, the first “Free French” began arriving in London. ![]()
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