Word: gamelin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jouvenel, while bestowing a decoration upon General Gamelin (who temporarily succeeded General Sarrail), took occasion to utter veiled conciliatory remarks and threats as follows...
...speedily discovered "source" proved to be the official report of General Gamelin, successor to General Sarrail until the new Provisional High Commander, General Duport, was able to reach Damascus. It read, in part, as follows...
...General Gamelin was reported to have made a sortie from Damascus and been heavily engaged with Druse tribes to the South. Then the encircling native warriors cut off all communication with Damascus by rail, telephone or telegraph...
Having captured the Druse capital of Suedia (TIME, Oct. 5), General Gamelin, the French commander, proceeded to blast it into complete obliteration with every engine of scientific destruction at his command. Alleging that every house had been filled with snipers at the time of their entrance into the city, the French proceeded to dynamite countless ramshackle structures...
There they found themselves back at the starting point from which they set out to capture Suedia a fortnight since; found ample wells and bountiful supplies. General Gamelin reflected that he had at least rescued the French garrison, which had been held besieged in Suedia by the Druses for 66 days (TIME...