Maquis insurgency

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The Maquis insurgency was a French Resistance movement of rural guerrilla fighters who conducted sabotage, intelligence, and armed attacks against German occupation forces and the Vichy regime during World War II.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf French Resistance movement
insurgency
alliance Allied powers
linked to: Allied forces

Free French Forces
composedOf Spanish Republicans
draft evaders
escaped prisoners of war
political refugees
rural guerrilla fighters
conflict World War II
country France
endTime 1944
1945
hasEffect inspired later European resistance narratives
strengthened postwar legitimacy of French Resistance
hasPart Maquis de Bretagne
Maquis de l’Ain
linked to: Maquis du Jura

Maquis des Glières
Maquis du Jura
Maquis du Limousin
linked to: Limousin region

Maquis du Mont Mouchet
linked to: Maquis des Glières

Maquis du Vercors
linked to: Vercors Massif
ideology French patriotism
Gaullism
anti-fascism
communism
republicanism
socialism
language French
location rural France
mainActivity ambushes
armed attacks
attacks on communication lines
intelligence gathering
railway sabotage
sabotage
notableEvent Battle of Glières
Vercors uprising
objective restore French sovereignty
support Allied invasion of France
undermine German occupation in France
opponent German occupation forces in France
Milice française
Nazi Germany
Vichy regime
partOf French Resistance
result contributed to liberation of France
startTime 1942
supportedBy British government
linked to: UK government

De Gaulle’s Free French in London
linked to: Free France

Office of Strategic Services
Special Operations Executive
United States government
usesTactic guerrilla warfare
hit-and-run attacks
sabotage of industrial targets
sabotage of transport infrastructure

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