Editing Charles de Gaulle (section)

==== Algiers ====
Working with the [[French Resistance]] and other supporters in France's colonial African possessions after [[Operation Torch]] in November 1942, de Gaulle moved his headquarters to [[Algiers]] in May 1943. He became first joint head (with the less resolutely independent General [[Henri Giraud]], the candidate preferred by the US who wrongly suspected de Gaulle of being a British puppet) and then—after squeezing out Giraud by force of personality—sole chairman of the [[French Committee of National Liberation]].<ref name="CDG" />

De Gaulle was held in high regard by Allied commander General [[Dwight Eisenhower]].<ref name="Keegan298">Keegan p. 298</ref> In Algiers in 1943, Eisenhower gave de Gaulle the assurance in person that a French force would liberate Paris and arranged that the army division of French General [[Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque]] would be transferred from North Africa to the UK to carry out that liberation.<ref name="Keegan298" /> Eisenhower was impressed by the combativeness of units of the [[Free French Forces]] and "grateful for the part they had played in mopping up the remnants of German resistance"; he also detected how strongly devoted many were to de Gaulle and how ready they were to accept him as the national leader.<ref name="Keegan298" />