French army spokesman Col Thierry Burkhard confirmed that "French elements were deployed overnight in Kidal".
It is the pub where the French army's surrender is said to have been negotiated.
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After the war, Joyeuse served with the French army in Indochina as a medic.
"In Mexico today, Cinco de Mayo means the Mexican army defeated the French army, " he continued.
The French army was humiliated by the loss of Alsace-Lorraine, then shaken by the Paris Commune uprising.
Its main customer, the French army, would prefer a vehicle that was more combat-oriented than a taxi.
He was readmitted to the French army, served in the first world war and died in 1935.
Organisers said the highlight would be the storming of the besieged French army barricaded into the Southern Fort.
How could the French army have conspired to bring down an innocent man in the name of national security?
"The Malian military and the French army spent their first night and the people are very happy, " Maiga said Tuesday.
At least 15 militants were killed in fighting to clear out caves where they had taken refuge, the French army said.
Cinco de Mayo marks May 5, 1862, when a ragtag Mexican force whipped the superior French Army at the Battle of Puebla.
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Born in 1914, he studied at Harvard before joining the French army.
He allowed Jean Bedel Bokassa, a former sergeant in the French army, to overthrow David Dacko in the Central African Republic in 1965.
The guests were evacuated to the French army base, Cisse said.
The French army, which had half-heartedly vaccinated some of its troops, fared better than the population, but still saw over 23, 000 troops fall victim to this terrible scourge.
After his doomed endeavour to resist the French army that had come to crush the Roman republic and restore the pope, his stature grew, especially in liberal Protestant England.
In 1557, the French army lost over 14, 000 men when they tried to block a Spanish army under Count Egmont at the Battle of Saint Quentin in the Spanish-French Wars.
The new-model French Army swept through Europe, country by country, fighting a new kind of warfare, one that depended on rapid movement and, crucially, on the concentrated manpower (and firepower) that those enormous numbers allowed.
The personal accounts and speeches will be interspersed with musical interludes, with the Jewish Chorale of France (under the direction of Hector Sabo), the French Army Choir and the participation of Cantor Rabbi Raphael Cohen.
These days, maritime-security providers operating off east Africa almost always make some use of weapons, says Didier Berra, a French army veteran who has worked for Secopex, a naval-security firm based in Carcassonne in France.
His ancestor, who hailed from the town of San Miguel de Atlautla just below the snow line on the volcano Popocatepetl, was taken prisoner but was spared execution by a French army firing squad after it saw he had a birthmark over his heart.
George Washington met here in 1781 with the Comte de Rochambeau of the French expeditionary army, to plot successfully against the British at Yorktown.
The reader can almost hear the parachute canopies cracking open as Operation Castor begins on November 20th 1953, when the airborne elite of the French colonial army was first parachuted into the valley of Dien Bien Phu.
French soldiers have joined Mali's army in the hunt for the French pair kidnapped in Hombori, according to AFP.
The French left the Malian army on the front line for hours before they intervened and finished the job, he adds.
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