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    The Allied Army of the Orient (AAO) (French: Armées alliées en Orient) was the name of the unified command over the multi-national allied armed forces...
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    Commander of the Army of the Orient and which evolved to the Allied Army of the Orient on the Macedonian front (1915–1917) Adolphe Guillaumat – Commander of the...
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  • all allied troops on the Salonika front came under a united command, and named Allied Army of the Orient (AAO). The AAO supreme commander became the French...
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    Army joined the Franco-British Allied Army of the Orient and fought a protracted trench war against Bulgarian and German forces. The Allied army presence...
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    1918 between Bulgaria and the Allied Powers at the General Headquarters of the Allied Army of the Orient in Thessaloniki. The armistice came into force...
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    September and 11 November 1918, the Allied Army of the Orient liberated these three countries from occupation by the Central Powers. After remarkable...
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    missing. The Italian 35th Division served on the Macedonian Front as part of the Allied Army of the Orient. Some Italian divisions were also sent to the Western...
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  • Division of the Allied Army of the Orient, under General Julien Dufieux [fr]. This division from Cilicia included a metropolitan regiment (the 412th Infantry...
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    joining the Allied Army of the Orient operating on the Balkan Front. The Greek entry into the war along with the 24 division reinforcements that the Army had...
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    joining the Allied Army of the Orient operating on the Balkan Front. The Greek entry into the war, along with the 24 division reinforcements that the army had...
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    Louis Franchet d'Espèrey (category French Army generals of World War I)
    in May 1918. Removed from the Western Front, he was appointed commander of the Allied Army of the Orient at Salonika on the Macedonian front. Between...
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    1918: the Ottoman Empire had few forces to defend either Syria or Constantinople. This allowed Franchet d'Espèrey's Allied Army of the Orient along with...
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    for the Germans and the British General Staff, which was they accused of neglecting them. By spring 1917, General Sarrail's Allied Army of the Orient had...
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  • negotiated by General Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, as the commanding officer of the Allied Army of the Orient, and Hungarian Prime Minister Mihály Károlyi, on...
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    while the US troops were allowed to proceed the objective. Even though he was acting on instructions of the commander of the Allied Army of the Orient, General...
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    of the Hellenic Army launched an Entente-supported coup in Thessaloniki. After a brief hesitation, Venizelos and his principal supporters joined the uprising...
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  • Venizelism (category History of modern Greece)
    Βενιζελισμός) was one of the major political movements in Greece beginning from the 1910s. The movement first formed under Eleftherios Venizelos in the 1910s and...
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  • Philippe Henri Joseph d'Anselme (category French Army generals of World War I)
    January 1916 of the 127th Infantry Division. On 9 July 1918, he became commander of the 1st Division Group of the Allied Army of the Orient on the Macedonian...
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    Tirailleurs malgaches (category Colonial regiments of France)
    was the substitution of the letters TM for TS on the collar patches. Notes Colonel Michaud, Staff Officer of the Allied Army of the Orient notes the 1st...
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    wide front from the mountains of Albania to the Strymon River. Sarrail's Allied Army of the Orient was increased to 450,000 men during the same period; a...
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    Regiment "Cavalleggeri di Lucca" (16th) (category Cavalry Regiments of Italy)
    during which the Allied Army of the Orient pushed the Imperial German Army and Bulgarian Army North into Macedonia. In February 1917, the regiment's II...
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    Georgios Papandreou (category Grand Crosses 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany)
    with some units of the Greek Army and the allied British. During the same month, he became prime minister in the Greek government of National Unity [el]...
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    Pavlos Kountouriotis (category Commander's Crosses of the Cross of Valour (Greece))
    during the Balkan Wars, was regent of Greece, and the first president of the Second Hellenic Republic. In total he served four times as head of the Greek...
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    of the Allied Army of the Orient in Salonika, whose opinion of the Greek troops was positive and who attached considerable importance to them. To the...
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    designated as the Army of the United States in the U.S. Constitution. The Army is the oldest branch of the U.S. military and the most senior in order of precedence...
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  • Campaign: The Allied Army of the Orient defeats Bulgarian defenders. September 18 – WWI: Battle of Épehy – British approach the Hindenburg Line along the St...
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    brigade The Serbian army was evacuated to Greece and met with the Allied Army of the Orient. They then fought a trench war against the Bulgarians on the Macedonia...
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    Eleftherios Venizelos (category Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Poland))
    component of the Allied army on the Macedonian front. The presence of the entire Greek army gave the critical mass that altered the balance between the opponents...
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    National Schism (category Constantine I of Greece)
    growing Army of the Orient had landed, one year earlier. After intense diplomatic negotiations, an armed confrontation in Athens between Allied and royalist...
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    Giuseppe Pennella (category Italian Army generals)
    that of the 3rd Army. Between April 26 and May 24, 1917, he was commander of the 35th Division and at the same time of the Allied Army of the Orient, replacing...
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