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==French Army== The [[French Army in World War I|French Army]] began to develop trench codes in early 1916. They started as [[telephone]] codes, implemented at the request of a [[general]] whose forces had suffered devastating [[Barrage (artillery)|artillery barrages]] due to indiscretions in telephone conversations between his men. The original telephone code featured a small set of two-letter codewords that were spelled out in voice communications. This grew into a three-letter code scheme, soon adopted for wireless, with early one-part code implementations evolving into more secure two-part code implementations. The [[British Army during the First World War|British]] began to adopt trench codes as well.
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