If this happens, France is given the option of collaborating with the Germans (which will create Vichy France if the Germans approve), continuing the fight regardless (which will allow them to continue on as Free France) or proposing a union with Britain (which will create the Franco-British Union if both sides approve). Throughout the war, the Free French navy served as an auxiliary force to the other British Royal Navy and the other dominion navies of the British Empire while the Free French army engaged the axis powers alongside the British Army in both Africa and elsewhere.įree France, like Vichy France, is created through an event chain which will start if France is democratic, allied to the United Kingdom, and capitulates when at war with Germany. Over the course of the war, Free France would continue to gradually build up a military composed of colonial recruits, exiles from Metropolitan France and other anti-vichy rebels and resistance members and, with significant assistance from the British, begun to contest the Vichy regime's rule over french overseas territories. While many french colonial territories rejected the appeal and reaffirmed their loyalty to Vichy, a good part of them, namely the French Equatorial Africa, the French Pacific possessions, French Guyana and French India, heeded the appeal and came to form the basis for an overseas french resistance movement led by de Gaulle. In London, he broadcast the Appeal of 18 June (Appel du 18 juin) over the BBC, urging the french to resist against the Axis powers of Germany and Italy and, by extension, the Vichy Regime. Historical Background Īfter the Fall of France and the Second Armistice of Compeigne, French General Charles de Gaulle rejected the armistice being negotiated by Marshal Philippe Petain and fled to Britain.
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