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Captain Andre D. Dupont, the artillery officer detailed with the French Mission at the University Reserve Officers' training camp in Cambridge the past summer, has been detailed for duty at Yale during a part of the fall term. Arrangements have also been made that Captain Dupont, in conjunction with his lectures to be delivered here at the University will visit Yale from time to time throughout the whole year and give advice regarding the artillery instruction that will be offered there...
...Captain Dupont will thus assist Captain Overton, U. S. A., retired, who also was stationed with the University corps this summer and is now professor of military science and tactics at New Haven on appointment by the War Department. Besides Captain Dupont two captains of Canadian Field Artillery have been detailed to aid in the training of the Yale Battery. The guns for this training have been promised by the French government, and it is reported that they have already arrived in this country. They were secured through the efforts of M. Tardieu and Colonel Claudon...
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...
...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 in turn such various important phases of modern warfare...
...here they will be unable to directly continue work in that branch of the service which they intend eventually to follow, they will receive the infantry training which is essential for an artillery man, and they will also have the benefit of the more modern artillery instruction of Captain Dupont...