The Seventh Army ( French : VIIe Armée ) was a field army of the French Army during World War I and World War II .
7-697: Created on 4 April 1915 to defend the front between the Swiss border and Lorraine, the Seventh Army was the successor of the independent Army Detachment of the Vosges under General Putz. This Detachment had been created on 8 December 1914, with the stabilisation of the Western Front as successor of the Army of Alsace , Groupement des Vosges and 34th Army Corps . The Seventh Army held the same position until
14-545: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . French Army of Alsace (WWI) The Army of Alsace ( French : Armée d'Alsace ) was a French field army of the First World War that operated from 11 to 28 August 1914. On 7 August 1914, the French VII Corps (General Bonneau) captured Mulhouse but were forced out three days later by German counter-attacks. Bonneau was dismissed by Joffre and
21-632: The Seventh Army advanced into the Netherlands and northern Belgium under orders to join forces with Dutch troops. After heavy fighting in Belgium and German breakthroughs further south (the Ardennes and Flanders), the general staff ordered the withdrawal of the Seventh Army headquarters (to central France). However, Giraud remained in Belgium to command the French 9th Army , which had assumed control of
28-705: The VII Corps was expanded, becoming the Armée d'Alsace under command of Paul Pau . The reinforcements were A new attack was launched, Mulhouse was taken and the Germans were even pushed over the Rhine. French defeats in Lorraine and the Ardennes forced the Armée d'Alsace to withdraw from Mulhouse, to a more defensible line near Altkirch and to provide reinforcements for the French armies closer to Paris. The army
35-711: The end of the War. Its major involvements were the Battle of Hartmannswillerkopf and the Battle of Le Linge in 1915. The Seventh Army was re-formed on 3 September 1939 as a strategic reserve force. On 11 November, under General Henri Giraud , it became part of the 1st Army Group and was deployed to northern Belgium, under the Allied Dyle Plan . Following the German offensives in Western Europe from 10 May 1940,
42-638: The surviving 7th Army units. Giraud was captured soon afterward at Wassigny (19 May). On 17 May, a new Seventh Army had been formed on the Somme, under the 2nd Army Group , with reserve units and surviving units of the Second Army (which had been destroyed in Flanders). The new Seventh Army took an active part in the Battle of France until 25 June, 1940. This article about a specific French military unit
49-693: Was disbanded on 28 August and many of its units distributed among the remaining French armies. The units that remained in Southern Alsace, came under the First Army and received the name of Groupement des Vosges , which became the XXXIV Corps on 22 October 1914. On 8 December 1914, with the stabilisation of the Western Front, more units were added to this sector and they formed the independent détachement d'Armée des Vosges/détachement d'Armée Putz under General Henri Putz . On 4 April 1915,
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