Word: lyautey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Petain Lyautey...
Foch, Petain, Lyautey, Franchet d'Esperey...
...that place of transcendent glory, there seemed to stand, last week, merely four old men: Foch, 76; Lyautey, 73; Petain, 72; Franchet d'Esperey...
Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey is the "Moroccan Marshal." He was born in France but his spurs and his glory were won on the other side of the Mediterranean, in French Morocco, As High Commissioner and Resident General almost continuously from 1912 to 1925, he pacified a robber rabble, waged reforms as well as war, organized a stable government, and laid the sure foundations of a great colonial and commercial future...
...from the threat of war incident to the despatch of the Panther by the German Government to Agadir. Internally the country was split by a virtual civil war as well as the usual bandit depredations. It was natural that the young Sultan should lean more and more on Marshal Lyautey, "the grand old man of Morocco," who was the French Resident General. It was largely because of their mutual confidence that France was able so completely to pacify the country that she was able to withdraw two-thirds of her troops during...