Word: verdun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marne worth nothing? Could Verdun not be estimated in cash value...
...Allies), one-time Commander-in-Chief of the French armies; in Paris, of double pneumonia. His mother was English, his father a French army captain. He went through the Fontainbleau Artillery School, the Superior War College, served in Africa, China, Algeria. In 1916 he succeeded General Petain at Verdun and arrested the great German push at Douamont and Vaux. After the retirement of Joffre, he led the costly offensive of April, 1917. A year later he was sent to command the troops in Algeria. In 1920 he visited...
...positions to the South in Westphalia. It was estimated that France could put 200,000 men in motion: 55,000 already in the Ruhr basin, 95,000 in the Rhineland, 50,000 massed near the frontier, including large garrisons at Metz and Strasbourg, with reserves at Belford Epinal and Verdun...
...innate Rhenish hatred for Prussia. But it is interesting to realize that in Aix and Bonne, in Coblenz and Dortmund there is a struggle in progress the result of which is nearly as important for the future of France and Germany as were the battles of the Marne and Verdun. The balance of power has shifted since 1914 from Germany to France and England, forever anxious to keep the scales even, is moving further and further from France. But the future of Germany is not being determined by Downing Street or by the Quai d'Orsay, or even...
...been the victim of the conflicting ambitions of France and Germany. Although originally Alsace and the lower Rhine were given to Germany and Lorraine was alloted to France, neither country has been content. The ebb and flow of time has in one century carried the German arms to Verdun and in another advanced the fleur-de-lis or the tricolor to the Rhine and Westphalis...