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...specialized in staff work at the Ecole de Guerre. At the beginning of the War he was only a colonel, but his great military genius, first recognized by General Castelanu, rapidly won him merited recognition, promotion and honors. His greatest claim to fame rests upon the heroic defense of Verdun and his skillful handling of mutinous French troops in 1917. Possibly had there been no Pétain, France would, be paying Germany an indemnity...
...There are very few courses given on Saturday and consequently students may go away over the week-end. Paris is about four hours in the train, while Strassburg, Metz, and Verdun, are within two hours motoring distance. In the winter time a jaunt of 70 kilometers will take one to the Vosges mountains, where there are excellent winter sports...
During the War, he was noted for a brilliant attack at Verdun which resulted in the recapture of Fort Douaumont and which earned for him the sobriquet of "the hero of Verdun." The following year he led his army into a brilliant but Pyrrhic victory on the Aisne...
...French poilus died with her name on their lips, fought under her banner, prayed to her on the blood-stained Marne, before the rain of steel at Verdun and in the hour of victory. After the War, soldiers went to her grave at Lisieux, covered it with their medals and swords...
Died. General Charles Marie Emmanuel Mangin, 59, famed one-armed hero of Verdun; in Paris, of appendicitis. It was in March, 1916, that he led the brilliant attack at Verdun which resulted in the retaking of Fort Douaumont (see FRANCE...