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The forgotten alliance: Serbia's Great War monument to France

Statue in Belgrade bears witness to nations' close friendship that saw French troops land a hundred years ago to rescue their allies.

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On October 5, 1915, French troops landed in Salonika aiming to open a new front in the Great War and rescue their Serbian allies. A century later, few remember the close friendship that once bound the two nations together, reports FRANCE 24.

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