Word: commandered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor's Island, N. Y., the 16th Infantry marched in parade. Three soldiers reviewed the regiment. One was Charles P. Summerall, the second was Stanley Ford, the third was Louis F. de Fost. Mr. Summerall is Major General in command of the Second Corps Area. Mr. Ford is Colonel of the 16th. Soldier de Fost is a Private in Company D of the 16th...
...greatest success in the World War was in 1914 before Verdun. Ordered to fall back, he refused. His refusal allowed Marshal Joffre to stage a counterattack on the right flank of Sarrail's command and the engagement ended in the saving of Verdun. Had not Sarrail disobeyed orders, the course of the War might have been very different...
...with Joffre some time afterwards led to his dismissal. He was reappointed by the War Office to command the French Army in Salonica, eventually becoming the Allied Commander-in-Chief. After a not very successful campaign, he was recalled at the end of 1917; and in the following April was placed in the reserve, having reached the age limit. There he stayed until 1924 when, in succession to General Weygand, he was made French High Commissioner in Syria...
...strong force of Green Police (German) and some French civilians were the only onlookers. Suddenly a sharp command broke the mortuary silence. The scene abruptly became charged with the tension of things about to happen. There was a snap, much shuffling and slapping as rifles came to a general salute. Then silence. General Guilleaume, commanding the French troops in the Ruhr area, had appeared on the steps of his headquarters. After reviewing the assembled troops, the General turned toward the building out of which he had come, stood at attention with the troops as honors were paid to the Tricolor...
...poke his fingers into the triple-tiered keyboard. Later he studied at the Royal Academy, tried to be a composer, but it was not until he was engaged to conduct a series of Promenade Concerts in the new Queen's Hall in 1895 that his name began to command space in the newspapers. It was then considered impossible to play good music for audiences at Promenade Concerts; they wanted to hear Goodbye, Dolly, I Must Leave You, or the airy ballads that squat Dan Leno was yodeling in the Empire Theatre. "But God bless my soul," said Henry...