Word: sarrail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chief of the Imperial General Staff, saw it, the Macedonian expedition "had no military justification." Rent by bitter rivalries among the national contingents, the Salonika army for months did little except dig trenches, winning Georges Clemenceau's scorn as "the gardeners of Salonika." Commander in Chief Maurice Sarrail of France was a political general who spent far more time intriguing to unseat Greece's King Constantine (who was married to the Kaiser's sister) than in mounting offensives. Sarrail did have one triumph: by wheeling up the French fleet before Piraeus, he forced Constantine's abdication...