Ninth Army (France) - Citizendia

The Ninth Army (French: IXe Armée) was a Field army of the French Army during World War I and World War II. French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people The French Army, officially the Armée de Terre (Land Army is the land-based component of the French Armed Forces and its largest World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including

Commanders

World War I

General Ferdinand Foch (29 August 1914 - 5 October 1914)
General Antoine de Mitry (6 July 1918 - 7 August 1918)

World War II

General André Corap (2 September 1939 – 19 May 1940)
General Henri Giraud (19 May 1940)

Ferdinand Foch OM GCB (2 October 1851 – 20 March 1929 was a French soldier military theorist and writer credited with possessing "the most original Henri Honoré Giraud ( 18 January 1879 &ndash 13 March 1949) was a French general who fought in World War I and World

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