Word: douamont
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
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