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    The Troupes de Marine (lit. 'Marine Troops') or TDM, sometimes simply referred to as "French Marines" in English, are one of the major components of the...
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    The Troupes de la Marine (Troops of the French Navy) was a military body founded by Cardinal Richelieu in 1622 under the denomination of Compagnies Ordinaires...
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    From 1822 to 1900 these troops were designated Troupes de marine ("Marine Troops" or just "Marines"), and in 1961 they readopted this name. They were...
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    infantry, Troupes coloniales and Troupes de marine. September 15, 1940, the 1st Air Infantry Company (Free French) (1e Compagnie d'Infanterie de l'Air: 1e...
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    could be translated as "marine", but do not translate exactly: troupes de marine (marine troops) and fusiliers-marins (marine riflemen) and fuzileiros...
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    Cavalry). Like the US Marine Corps, the Troupes de Marine do not use the definition "Cavalry". 1er Régiment d'Infanterie de Marine (1st Marine Infantry Regiment)...
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    Compagnies franches de la marine (previously known as Troupes de la marine, and later being renamed and reorganized as the Troupes de Marine) were an ensemble...
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    they are assigned to. Troupes métropolitaines ("from the French mainland") units wear blue, Troupes de marine (the former troupes coloniales') wear red...
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    Demi-Brigade Parachutiste de Choc) (11e D-B.PC - dissolved). École des troupes aéroportées [fr]) (BETAP), Base School of Airborne Troops . School of Airborne...
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    Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment (French: 2e Régiment de Parachutistes d'Infanterie de Marine, 2e RPIMa) is an airborne regiment of the Troupes de Marine...
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