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Franc-Tireurs

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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E . free-shooters), French volunteers, chiefly peasants, who carried on a guerilla warfare against the Germans in the Franco-German War; were at first denied the status of regular soldiers by the Germans and mercilessly shot when captured, but subsequently, having joined in the movements of the regular army, they were when captured treated as prisoners of war.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Franc-Tireurs'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​f/franc-tireurs.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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