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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 Lejeunes 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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