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 Henri Gouraud (soldier) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henri Gouraud (1867–1946) was a French soldier, best known for his leadership of the French Fourth Army at the end of the First World War.
From July of 1917 until the end of the war he commanded the Fourth Army on the Western Front, where he gained distinction for his use of elastic defense during the Second Battle of the Marne.
After the war Gouraud served from 1919 to 1923 as representative of the French Government in the middle east where he presided over the creation of the state of Lebanon on september 1st 1920.
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And among the soldiers going and coming between the Rhine bridge-heads and Paris, there is a corresponding and anxious sense of the fierce vitality of Germany, and of the absence of any real change of heart among her people.
General Gouraud, who was in command of the Fourth French Army to the east of Rheims, told me at Strasbourg the dramatic story of that attack and of its brilliant and overwhelming repulse.
Gouraud was amply informed by his intelligence staff, and his air service, of the enemy preparations, and had made all his own.
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 Algeria 1956 Timeline - www.ezboard.com
Conscript Henri Maillot, a bookkeeper for the Communist newspaper Alger Républicain, deserts in a truck loaded with 97 rifles, 85 machine guns, 90 pistols and 12 cases of grenades and munitions which he turns over to 3 other Communists in the forest of Bainem, 8 kilometers from Algiers.
Nineteen soldiers are ambushed and savagely mutilated at the douar of Sidi Galem near Terafoui.
Henri Alleg, publisher of the Republicain d’Alger, the Communist Party of Algeria’s newspaper, is arrested for conspiring with the FLN.
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 Passion & Compassion 1914-1918 : WW1 related books commented database - numerous novels and witnesses less known
One of the rare works reporting the memories of a soldier of the elite troops that which were the zouaves, recruited in european France in spite of their Exotic uniforms.
Their reading is often a little disappointing compared to book of 'the ground staff', because even if nobody disputes the brutality of the aerial combats and the terrible rate of losses, these 'Aces' were so much deified by the press during the conflict that their history is too often told like a legend.
Hallucinating shoked wounded soldiers, confuse and unclear military situation, bumpy roads and dying vehicles torturing their pityful load, unefficient logistics, Verdun town under heavy shells, messy and engorged hospitals, the painting is dark, but described with a talentuous language.
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 LHCMA Hamilton catalogue: 7/12/1-366 Official photographs of the Dardanelles Expedition, 1915-1916
Official photograph of the Dardanelles Expedition: French Gen Henri Joseph Étienne Gouraud and French Gen Maurice Camille Bailloud with their staff at Sedd-el-Bahr Fort (Bailloud shaking hands with British staff captain).
Official photograph of the Dardanelles Expedition: British soldier in trench with helmet placed on end of his rifle as a target for Turkish snipers.
Official photograph of the Dardanelles Expedition: ANZAC soldier and British soldier with Turkish woman, her children and donkey.
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 CHAPTER FIVE - The 71st Brigade At St. Etienne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Hence, General Gouraud, the tall, erect, lame, one-armed, experienced commander of the French Fourth Army, sent the highly-rated, battle-hardened U.S. Army and Marine 2nd Division under Marine Major General John A. Lejeune to break the German grip.
When the French attack at Blanc Mont faltered, Gouraud obtained permission from General Henri P. Petain, the Commander-in-Chief of the French Army, who was at Chalons late in September, 1918, to employ Lejeune’s division as part of the French Fourth Army.
General Gouraud had planned an attack by the 2nd, 21st, and 11th Corps on October 7 for the purpose of keeping the pressure on along the "Machault-Pauvres axis." The stubborn enemy resistance in this area was designed to cover the retreat of his forces further west.
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 ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Gouraud Henri Joseph Eugène
Gouraud, Henri Joseph Eugène (1867-1946), French soldier, born in Paris, and educated at the military academy in Saint-Cyr from 1888 to 1890....
He studied with the Polish violinist Henryk Wieniawski and the...
Vieuxtemps, Henri François Joseph (1820-1881), Belgian violinist and composer whose virtuoso works for violin are highly esteemed by violinists....
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 The Trek BBS: Iraq citizens make U.S. soldier a Sheik
This guy should get a medal, as an example of what a true US soldier should be.
Soldiers, I want you to know that I hate your reason for existing.
The soldiers do not choose where they are sent.
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 Henri Gouraud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There have been at least two notable people named Henri Gouraud:
General Henri Gouraud (1867–1946), a World War I French general
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title.
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 First World War.com - Who's Who - Commanders
In addition to the biographies presented below, click here to view contemporary photographs of commanders within the Vintage Photographs section of the site.
, First AIF Winner of the VC Sir Henry Jackson
A "Dixie" (from the Hindi degci) was an army cooking pot.
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 Lucien Durosoir's biography, violinist and composer
Henri Lemoine was second violin, the composer André Caplet played viola and Maurice Maréchal played " le Poilu ", a famous cello made from an ammunition crate, which bears the signatures of Foch, Pétain, Mangin and Gouraud!
In between his duties as foot soldier, musician, stretcher bearer and pigeon-keeper, Lucien Durosoir wrote to his mother every day and more than two thousand letters have survived.
Letters which describe some of the most awful episodes of the Great War as well as the studious life of the " Mangin Quartet " musicians, letters which comment on the military hierarchy and the daily conditions of those in the trenches.
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 Jerome Preston. Diary of Jerome Preston, 1917-1918. An Innocent Abroad.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The boys were cantoned in a room over a stable in double deck bunks and set up their kitchen in a café a few blocks away- The weather was mild, the canals and rivers overflown and the mud hip deep.
As I started to walk away there was an explosion; some of the soldiers were climbing out of the trench, but one stood in a cloud of smoke looking in dazed fashion at blood streaming from his hand.
A group of soldiers were lying out on the grass between two barracks when a single small bomb fell among them.
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 World War I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Western Front was stalemated by static trench warfare, in which hundreds of thousands of men died in senseless attacks, from the beginning of the war until the armistice of November 1918.
Turkish soldiers had a century old reputation as fierce fighters and that tradition was confirmed during this war.
Fresh and enthusiastic American soldiers turned the tide of the war and along with the Allies forced Germany to surrender.
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 Sachi Sri Kantha - The Pirabaharan Phenomenon
Warusawitharana said the injured soldiers initially suffer fears of rejection by society, but with the help of professional counseling and support from colleagues most make remarkable recoveries.
Masons, carpenters and even some of the military drivers are soldiers who once fought in the war.
At Pooneryn, around 600 soldiers lost their lives but a small group within the camp held on doggedly until reinforcements arrived.
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 The FReeper Foxhole Remembers "Harlem's HellFighters" 369th Infantry - Feb. 27th, 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Gouraud, who commanded the Fourth French Army, took his troops out of the front line trenches over a front of 50 kilometers, and when the attack occurred he had the 369th on one flank of a 50-kilometer line and the old 69th New York, a part of the Rainbow Division, on the other.
The French were amazed not only at the proficiency of the men as soldiers but at their proficiency in laying railroad tracks, which was the first duty assigned them near one of the larger French ports.
After shakedown cruise in the Gulf of Paria, between Trinidad and Venezuela, the new cruiser was assigned, 27 March 1944, to Task Force 22 and trained in Casco Bay, Maine until she steamed to Belfast, Northern Ireland with TG 27.10, arriving 14 May and reporting to Commander, 12th Fleet for duty.
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 Henri Gouraud (soldier) Definition / Henri Gouraud (soldier) Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Henri Gouraud (soldier) Definition / Henri Gouraud (soldier) Research
Henri Gouraud (1867 Events January 8 - African-American men granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia January 11 - Benito Juárez becomes Mexican president again January 30 - Emperor Komei of Japan dies.
[click for more] soldier, best known for his leadership of the French Fourth Army at the end of the First World War.
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 The Maronites and Lebanon
The soldiers invested these mountains and, having dismounted scaled the slopes from all sides.
The governor invaded the hills, and his soldiers trampled underfoot a land whose inhabitants had believed it impregnable.
Karam ruled with fairness, and his reputation and influence as a soldier and politician continued to grow and spread.
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 6 March: This Date in History
The lone survivor, a young Algerian soldier, is critically injured.
Then, I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism and everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid with all despatch--The enemy is receiving reinforcements daily and will no doubt increase to three or four thousand in four or five days.
If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible and die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor and that of his country--Victory or Death.
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They say we are so big and tall and those square headed Germans will think that hell has broken out in general when we hit their lines; our state of Texas has a record for big fighting men and we are going to make that record bigger than ever.
Barton LAW of this city was among the American soldiers who had the honor of dinning with President WILSON and General PERSHING on Christmas day in France.
His escape was nothing short of miraculous and we rejoice with the fond parents and other relatives that he is being restored and pray too, that during the tragic vicissitudes of these war-ridden days he, with our other boys will be given back to home and country.
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 C4c From Texas to the Marne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
One Oklahoma soldier on farm furlough was "so busy with the crops" that he "evidently forgot all about.
Whether or not this particular AWOL soldier was allowed to "join his regiment," as he requested in a wire to Greble at Camp Bowie, has not been ascertained.
On October 3, the 36th was assigned informally to the French Fourth Army under General Henri Gouraud.
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 Ahmad Faruqui: The Liberation of Iraq in Perspective
In the autumn of 1917 General Sir Edmund Allenby invaded Palestine and on December 11, he and his officers entered the holy city of Jerusalem through the Jaffa Gate.
Prime Minister Lloyd George regarded it as a Christmas gift, and wrote that Christendom had regained "possession of its sacred shrines." French General Henri Gouraud entered Damascus in July 1920.
The soldiers are marching in, bearing the gift of democracy.
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Muslim soldiers leave Arabia in the early 7th century A.D. to conquer much of the Middle East, including Lebanon.
On September 1, 1920, General Gouraud proclaimed the establishment of Greater Lebanon with its present boundaries and with Beirut as its capital.
However, French high commissioner Henri Ponsot suspended the constitution on May 9, 1932, and extended the term of Dabbas for one year; in this way he prevented the election of a Muslim as president.
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 Middle East/North Africa/Persian Gulf Region   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Some 10,000 French soldiers, 50,000 Spanish government soldiers, and 25,000 Berber rebels were killed during the conflict.
Two British soldiers were accidently killed in the Jabal Akhdhar region on January 27, 1959.
French troops took control of Syria on September 15, 1919, and General Henri Gouraud was named high commissioner of Syria on October 9, 1919.
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 Legion Russe History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Chief of State, General Alexeyev, proposed a compromise saying that Russian soldiers would be sent under the following conditions: the soldiers would be sent in consolidated units to be overseen by Russian officers who would be working under the French high command.
Even the medics, forgetting their mission of mercy in the enthusiasm of the battle at hand, pentrate into the enemy ranks." Of 150 soldiers, 110 were left on the bank of the Vauxbin.
The French press of the time, in admiration of Russian heroism, underlined the large number of Russian soldiers who received the Medal of the Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre and employed the term "Legion of Honor" to describe the Russian unit for the first time.
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 Military History Online
Gouraud had anticipated the need to relieve a part of the 2nd Division, and the 36th was available.
As one soldier put it, "I have two weapons of defense, one a rifle the other a small shovel which I carry on my belt.
Casualties were heavy, but World War One was characterized by heavy casualties, brave soldiers trying to make up for a frequent lack of skill in the upper levels of command.
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To solve this, a Henri Gouraud in 1971 presented a method for creating the appearance of a curved surface by interpolating the color across the polygons.
One of the most impressive aspects of Gouraud shading is that it hardly takes any more computations than Flat shading, yet provides a dramatic increase in rendering quality.
While Gouraud shading was a great improvement over Flat shading, it still had a few problems as to its realism.
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Varage, Italy 09/16/1918 - NAR imag1428.jpg French troops using flamethrowers - NAR imag1429.jpg American telephone girls on arrival for "hello" duty in France.
Dardanelles Campaign, 1915 - NAR imag1442.jpg Convalescent Moroccan and Indochinese soldiers at hospital, Dinant, France imag1443.jpg Anti-aircraft machine gun of 101st Field Artillery firing on a German observation plane at Plateau Chemin des Dames, France.
Head nurse Mary Nelson is at right - Marion Rice's war album, contributed by Steve Hooper imag1767.jpg French soldiers in battle - Marion Rice's war album, contributed by Steve Hooper imag1768.jpg Group of nurses, including Rice at bottom left, embark for France in
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Never before has one soldier’s life so completely reflected a nation’s military history.
After graduation from West Point with the highest average ever achieved by a cadet, MacArthur served in Vera Cruz during the Mexican uprisings and then as military attaché in the Far East, where he first perceived Japanese aspirations for hegemony in the Orient.
At left is General Henri Gouraud, the Military Governor of Paris (1931, Paris).
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