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Taking advantage of President Lowell's offer made during the latter part of the Summer the War Department detailed 550 newly commissioned Reserve Officers to report to Captain Shannon at Cambridge on August 19 for three weeks training under Lieutenant Colonel Azan and the other members of the French Military Mission at the University. The men were selected from the various training camps of the East, and consisted for the most part of first and second lieutenants, although the number included also six majors and 98 captains. Unfortunately, Captain Shannon was ordered to Washington before the men reported...
Lieutenant Colonel Azan was in charge of the training. He was assisted by Major de Reviers; Captain Dupont, and Lieutenant Morize who had been connected with the University R. O. T. C., and also be Captain H. Amann, Captain Loriot, Lieutenant Jean Jegou and Lieutenant Rene Bose who were detailed to Cambridge by the French military authorities at Washington. Lieutenant Giradoux, one of the original six officers of the French Military Mission, returned to France in the middle of August after a sickness brought on by his several wounds...
...name of "Iron Battalion" was given to the organization by Colonel Azan, who took it from one of the famous battalions of his former regiment...
...week. For a month the work consisted of close and open order drill, gallery practice, and bayonet instruction under the supervision of Captains Cordier, Shannon and Bowen, and Sergeants Bender, Boyd, Brown, Kennedy and Lynch of the regular army. Gradually the officers of the French Mission--Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Azan, Major de Reviers de Mauny, Captain Adolph Dupont, Lieutenant Andre Morize, and Lieutenant Jean Giraudoux--took the regiment in hand and began the instruction in French open order formations and tactics of defense and attack. There was begun the valuable series of lectures which extended through the course, treating...
...return trip to Cambridge was made on Saturday, August 11, and on the following Wednesday the closing exercises were held in Sanders Theatre. Addresses were made by President Lowell, Lieutenant Colonel Azan and Captain Shannon; the certificates of attendance were distributed to the company commanders for distribution, and the men were dismissed...