Word: forte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier Georges Clemenceau telegraphed Mme. Mangin: "He was a great soldier." Major General Robert Lee Bullard, onetime (Oct. 11, 1918-Apr. 15, 1919) Commander of the U. S. , Second Corps Area, cabled from his sick bed in Fort Totten Army Hospital: "Goodby, beloved comrade. Goodby, thou undaunted spirit." The General's Negro body servant walked alone and silently near his master's coffin. Many distinguished persons, including Ambassador Myron T. Herrick and Colonel H. H. Harjes of Morgan, Harjes et Cie., were, present...
During the War, he was noted for a brilliant attack at Verdun which resulted in the recapture of Fort Douaumont and which earned for him the sobriquet of "the hero of Verdun." The following year he led his army into a brilliant but Pyrrhic victory on the Aisne...
Died. General Charles Marie Emmanuel Mangin, 59, famed one-armed hero of Verdun; in Paris, of appendicitis. It was in March, 1916, that he led the brilliant attack at Verdun which resulted in the retaking of Fort Douaumont (see FRANCE...
Married. Russell A. Firestone, son of Harvey S. Firestone, tire man, to Miss Dorothy L. Bryan of Fort Worth; in Manhattan...
Count Niezyzhowski was assigned to the Kronprins Wilhelm, a destroyer of Allied shipping. On Apr. 11, 1915, his ship was forced into Newport News, Va., for fuel and repairs, was interned. The Count was sent to Fort McPherson...