Word: douamont
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...French armies; in Paris, of double pneumonia. His mother was English, his father a French army captain. He went through the Fontainbleau Artillery School, the Superior War College, served in Africa, China, Algeria. In 1916 he succeeded General Petain at Verdun and arrested the great German push at Douamont and Vaux. After the retirement of Joffre, he led the costly offensive of April, 1917. A year later he was sent to command the troops in Algeria. In 1920 he visited...
...stubborn defence of Ypres has not been illuminated by a slogan, like "They shall not pass," the battlecry at Verdun which set France aflame. But in a less spectacular way their struggle around the ancient Flanders town symbolizes the British tradition in the war as the struggle for the Douamont and Vaux fortresses and Dead Man's Hill symbolizes the tradition of the French. It was at Ypres in November, 1914, that the British regulars, the "Old Contemptibles" of the gallant first expeditionary force, stemmed the German attack led by the crack regiments of the Prussian Guard and beat them...
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