Word: henried
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...behind the scenes in North Africa realized that the time had come to say something. "The events of the last week," said U.S. Minister Robert Murphy, "marked a definite departure from the Vichy form of Government." The definite departure amounted to a reorganization of General Henri Honoré Giraud's administration, giving supreme power to the old soldier, but also opening a chink through which Fighting Frenchmen might some day enter...
...Henri, José and Raphael Albouquer. One of these three brothers captured a post office and telephone exchange for the Americans. Another served as guide for a successful American mission. The third acted as interpreter for U.S. officers...
...Eisenhower's chief deputy, Alexander would have direct command over all ground forces: the British Eighth Army (General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery), the British First Army (Lieut. General Kenneth A. N. Anderson), the U.S. Fifth Army (Lieut. General Mark Wayne Clark), the French West African Army (General Henri Giraud...
...Joseph Stalin, who was too busy with war on his own soil to join them, with China's Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. They brought together, for the first time, the two leading figures in the tangled French political situation: Fighting French General Charles de Gaulle and General Henri Honore Giraud, High Commissioner of French Africa...
Considering his 19th-Century fame, the prolific number of paintings he produced, and the fact that he taught French Modernists Georges Rouault and Henri Matisse in their youth, also British Painter Sir John Lavery, astonishingly little is known about Adolphe William Bouguereau. He was born at La Rochelle, France in 1825, clerked in Bordeaux under his father, an olive oil trader, attended Bordeaux's Ecole des Beaux-arts...