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The Nice Tsunami, 1979
Actually a rather nasty incident, when a landfill being used to build the Nice Airport collapsed, triggering two large waves which delivered death and destruction to the French Riviera The area around Nice in the South of France is the Mediterranean playground of celebrities, billionaires, and European royalty which boasts miles of white-sand beaches, sparkling…
Worst French Military Disaster of Each Decade, 1890s-1920s (part 3)
Click for part 2 Battle of Togbao, 1899 In Central Africa, a punative field force was destroyed in circumstances the French would nonetheless take full advantage of. The long-standing Kanem–Bornu Empire, centred around Lake Chad, was well past its zenith by the turn of the century. It had never been conquored before the swashbuckling warlord…
Worst French Military Disaster of Each Decade, 1840s-1880s (Part 2)
Click for Part 1 Battle of Maeva, 1846 Although little is documented of the fighting itself, the French lost a shore party of marines in what has been described as a massacre by some, on the island of Huahine, modern-day French Polynesia. The Leeward Islands were divided between four kingdoms: Tahiti, Huahine, Raiatea and Bora…
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