Word: fontenoy
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...Fontenoy, Waterloo and Dunkirk. The Coldstream Guards were organized by Oliver Cromwell's famed henchman, Colonel Monck, who taught them "to keep a line, stay unbroken, hold [fire] until the word of command." Nearly a century later, at the Battle of Fontenoy, Coldstream muskets wiped out the entire front line of the French Guards in a single volley. The Guards served with distinction at Waterloo, in the Crimea and in the Boer War. In Nieppe Forest in 1918, a handful of Coldstreamers were ordered to stand up to the great German advance at all costs, and were wiped...
Though Pierre Laval's name was not mentioned, two of his henchmen, Pierre Cathala and M. de Fontenoy, were sponsors of the new party. Evident object of Laval, Déat & Co. was to force the Marshal to replace the coterie which now surrounds him with Laval...