Word: saumur
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...city was now German, the nightmare of the Franco-Prussian War turned into a dream of revanche. He fed the dream with legends of Napoleon; his religious training gave him the very highest sanctions. From the Polytechnique he pushed through the Ecole d'Application, the Cavalry School at Saumur, Ecole Superieure de Guerre. In 1890 he was summoned to the General Staff at the Ministry of War. Here the dream of revanche took strategical form. "Adopting the offensive as the essential form of action, Foch's sequence of action was, first, to feel for one's enemy...
During the summer a great deal of new equipment has arrived; the old equipment inspected and put in order, and the training plant prepared for the coming winter's work. Thirty flat saddles of the Saumur type, French officer's field model, have been procured for the instruction in equitation. For the past two weeks the horses assigned to the outfit have been in pasture at Camp Devens, and tomorrow they will be brought back to Cambridge over the road by the enlisted personnel of the Artillery Unit...