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    Robert Georges Nivelle (15 October 1856 – 22 March 1924) was a French artillery general officer who served in the Boxer Rebellion and the First World War...
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    Western Front in the First World War which was named after General Robert Nivelle, the commander-in-chief of the French metropolitan armies, who led the...
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    Verdun from the defensive-minded Philippe Pétain to the offensive-minded Robert Nivelle, the French attempted to re-capture Fort Douaumont on 22 May but were...
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    At the disastrous Chemin des Dames offensive of 1917 under General Robert Nivelle, they were said to have gone into no man's land making baa'ing noises—a...
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    to the government, consultative member of the War Committee", with Robert Nivelle as commander-in-chief of the Armies of the North and Northeast. It is...
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  • the main action in the Nivelle Offensive in April 1917. The new French commander of the armies in France, General Robert Nivelle, had promised a decisive...
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    the leading perpetrators of the Holocaust in Italy French military Robert Nivelle (1856–1924), French artillery officer who led the French forces during...
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    promoted to the command of Groupe d'armées du centre (GAC) and General Robert Nivelle took over the Second Army at Verdun. From 4 to 24 May, German attacks...
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    called "the Lion of Verdun" (French: le lion de Verdun). After the failed Nivelle Offensive and subsequent mutinies, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief...
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  • in World War I. Nivelles, a town in central Belgium Battle of Nivelle, a battle fought in 1813 near the river Nivelle Robert Nivelle (1856–1924), French...
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  • Pétain and Robert Nivelle. General de Curières de Castelnau (Mobilization – 21 June 1915) General Pétain (21 June 1915 – 1 May 1916) General Nivelle (1 May...
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    April and 25 April 1917. To soften up the German defences, General Robert Nivelle, an artilleryman by training and experience, inflicted a six-day artillery...
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    the French Army (3 August 1914 – 13 December 1916) Divisional General Robert Nivelle – Commander-in-Chief of the French Army (13 December 1916 – April 1917)...
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    then the main attack by two French army groups on the Aisne. General Robert Nivelle planned the offensive in December 1916, after he replaced Joseph Joffre...
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    1916 Battle of Verdun in the First World War when French Army General Robert Nivelle urged his troops not to let the enemy pass. The simplified slogan of...
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    the Meuse–Argonne offensive in late September 1918. In December 1916, Robert Nivelle replaced Pétain as commander of French armies on the Western Front and...
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    Marshal of France François-Marie-Casimir Négrier (1788–1848) (heart) Robert Nivelle (1856–1924) Nicolas d'Orange des Roches [fr] (1618–1705), Governor 1696–1705...
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  • of the Aisne (also known as Nivelle Offensive) ends in disaster for both the French army and its commander Robert Nivelle. (Details) April 17–20 Western...
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    Gertrude of Nivelles, OSB (also spelled Geretrude, Geretrudis, Gertrud; c. 628 – 17 March 659) was a seventh-century abbess who, with her mother Itta,...
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    October 1916, troops under Robert Nivelle's command captured Douaumont and other Verdun forts, making him a national hero. Nivelle formulated a plan using...
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    the Battle of Verdun. The French counter-offensive devised by General Robert Nivelle had been one of a number of Allied successes of 1916. Following extensive...
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    command of the French IIe Armée in the Verdun sector , under Général Robert Nivelle, laid plans for a counterattack that would retake Fort Donaumont from...
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    by the new French Commander-in-Chief Robert Nivelle in favour of a return to a strategy of decisive battle. Nivelle planned preliminary offensives to pin...
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    intense bombardment coordinated by his artillery commander General Robert Nivelle. Then a double creeping barrage led the infantry into the shattered...
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    de Castelnau in the First Battle of Champagne (1914), and by Robert Nivelle in the Nivelle offensive (1917). Joseph Joffre, French chief of general staff...
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    (1914–1963), the last empress consort of the Nguyễn dynasty in Vietnam Robert Nivelle (1856–1924), general, commander-in-chief of the French armies on the...
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    commander in 1916 – as an ally of the controversial French General Robert Nivelle in early 1917. Later in 1917 he was informal military advisor to British...
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    was being assembled to defend the Aisne front against the Franco-British Nivelle Offensive, preparations for which were barely concealed. Soon after taking...
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    the year. French offensives, employing new tactics devised by General Robert Nivelle, regained the forts and territory they had lost earlier. This was the...
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    Generalissimo of the Allied Armies (1918); Marshal of France from August 1918 Robert Nivelle – Commander-in-Chief of the French Army (1916–1917) Philippe Pétain...
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