Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Concurrently with Spain's spectacular nibbling at the Riff from the north, the French forces under Marshal Petain made an advance, near Kifane on the southern war front, into virgin sloughs of Riffland never before occupied by Europeans. It was announced that last week's French offensive had gained all its objectives in record time. Then French officers discovered that their airmen, who had hastily made for them the only available maps, had mapped too optimistically. The French lines, when exactly plotted, proved to be a couple of miles short of the advance that had been claimed...
France's most successful colonial administrator put a period to his career. For the last 13 years Marshal Lyautey has been building up Morocco. He pacified the major portion of it, consolidated the French protectorate, made it pay its way, put tens of thousands of Moroccan soldiers on the Allied front during the War. Only in 1916-17, when he served as French Minister of War, did he cease temporarily to be an immediate personal power in Moroccan affairs. Last week, at 71, he retired as French Resident General in Morocco, left his command and its recent complications...
Behind the long expected retirement of Marshal Lyautey lies a wealth of conjecture...
...Marshal himself is said to take satisfaction in the official version of the matter, which is that he has waited to resign his post until recent French successes have made the fruits of his early labors again secure. His enemies frankly hint that Abd-el-Krim had nearly blasted the rich protectorate of Lyautey, root and branch. Petain, they insist, must have full credit for saving...
Immediately after graduating, he became Secretary to the Corporation, and held that position until 1912. From 1911 to 1913, he was research assistant in genetics, and three years later became assistant dean and acting University Marshal. When the United States entered the World War, he went to Plattsburg as captain in the Signal Corps, and later became head of the aviation examining boards. He was honorably discharged in December, 1918, holding the rank of major...