Wargaming's latest update to World Of Warships: Legends will add some new ships to the fray from the French navy. The game has received the Godzilla Vs. Kong content that's been on the PC version, as ...

From the year 1066 with the Norman Conquest of England to 1815 with the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the French and English/British fought literally dozens of wars. However, the final Anglo-French ...

These battleships were among the finest ever engineered—and are rightly sources of great national pride from an otherwise bleak era in French history. Entering the Second World War, it was assumed ...

The Navy announced plans for a new battleship program, though key details including funding, design, and timelines remain ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: In the years prior to World War I, Britain and Germany raced to outbuild each other, resulting in vast fleets of dreadnought battleships. The British won the race, ...

July 3, 1940. After only 54 days into office, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered his Navy to take control of French ships, or destroy them if the French refused to relinquish control.

Although battleships were supplanted by aircraft carriers by the end of World War II, they remain a testament to a bygone era of warfare—and a symbol of their nations’ might. For nearly half a century ...

In the night of July 2-3 at various ports in England and Scotland, armedparties of British officers & men quietly boarded all major French shipsberthed with the Home Fleet, mostly at Portsmouth and ...

Early on July 3, 1940, a massive British Royal Navy task force assembled off of Mers-el-Kébir in what was then French Algeria. The port was home to a small but powerful French Navy squadron that had ...

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