Word: french
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Bayonet combat. 10.45-11.45, Platoon drill, close and extended order. 1.30-2.30, Minor tactics, Bjornstad, pp. 76-88. 2.45-3.15, Signalling, wig-wag code. 8.15-4.15, Squad drill, close and extended order. 4.15-5.30, Company drill, close and extended order. 7.45, Lecture by an Officer of the French Mission...
...Azan, Commandant of the French Military Mission at the University, has been promoted to the rank of Colonel by the French War Department. Although the promotion was made some time ago, Colonel Azan was not informed of this fact until just before the dinner given for Captain Cordier at the Harvard Club of Boston on last Wednesday evening...
...system of trenches at Fresh Pond on which two companies have been working each day under the guidance of the French Officers is rapidly nearing completion. All of the excavation is completed except a few points in the first line, and in one of the boyeaux, and the men are now engaged in performing the finishing details which will make the trenches habitable. The ever difficult problem of drainage is being met in the several ways adopted on the Western front, floor gratings are being constructed and placed and weak portions of the trench walls are being braced and reenforced...
...Napoleon who had dreams of empire a century ago, or the French? Was it Attila who scourged God, or the Huns? That nation is a nation of exceeding fools which fights for conquest without knowing, the desire for conquest, nor the value of conquest. And no nation of exceeding fools was ever able to fight as has Germany. Or to fight at all, for that matter...
...sufficient to say that President Lowell has promised that the Corps will not be broken up for any cause which may now be conceived. The presence of our French instructors assures lessons in the science of position warfare which may not be gained save at the front. The rudiments of American military art have been mastered by the students. A mingling of our own system with French methods may be achieved...