• Army Group 3 (Groupe d'Armées 3 [GA 3]) was a French Army formation during the Second World War, stationed along the river Rhine manning the Maginot line...
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    Alberich. Nivelle left Petain in command of Groupe d'armées de Centre (GAC) and established a new Groupe d'armées de Reserve (GAR, Joseph Micheler) for the...
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    Allied troops in the area were well rested by late September. The Groupe d'Armées des Flandres (GAF, Flanders Army Group, King of the Belgians) attacked...
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    the Groupe d'armées de Reserve (GAR, Reserve Army Group) attacked the Chemin des Dames and the next day, the Fourth Army, part of Groupe d'armées de Centre...
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    September 1915, twenty divisions of the Second Army and Fourth Army of Groupe d'armées du Centre (GAC, Central Army Group Général Édouard de Castelnau), attacked...
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    (Commander North-Eastern Front [including the BEF]), General Besson (Groupe d'armées 3), General Aubert Frère (Seventh Army) General Robert Altmayer (Group...
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    an extreme right-wing terrorist cell calling itself the Organisation d’armées sociales (OAS) emerged in France. The acronym was a nod to the original...
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    taken from Organigramme des Grandes Batailles. Northern Army Group (Groupe d'armées du Nord) Commander: General Ferdinand Foch Sixth Army: Army Commander:...
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  • redesignated as territorial regions/army corps (regions territoriales et Corps d’Armees) in April 1959. After 1962 they were reduced solely to the functions of...
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    rest of the force attacked to the south of Arras and the new French Groupe d'Armées 3 (Général d'armée Antoine-Marie-Benoît Besson) attacked north from...
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    the Aisne and defeated the Fourth Army (General Anthoine) part of Groupe d'armées du Centre (General Philippe Petain) during the Second Battle of the...
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    southern Belgium that took place in late September and October 1918. The Groupe d'Armées des Flandres (GAF) comprising twelve Belgian divisions, ten divisions...
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    Command launched an offensive across the Western Front. In Belgium the Groupe d'Armées des Flandres (GAF) was formed under the command of King Albert I of...
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    1st Army Group (fr:Groupe d'armées n° 1) of the North-Eastern Front (Front du Nord-est). Most of the BEF spent the Phoney War (3 September 1939 to 9...
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    divisions in the front line, with 2+1⁄2 divisions in close reserve. Groupe d'armées du centre (GAC, General De Langle de Cary) had the I and XX corps with...
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    Heeresgruppe A's advance could have been blunted, giving time for Groupe d'armees 1 to reorganise". Kaufmann and Kaufmann commented, "When all is said...
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    825 casualties. In December 1915, Général Augustin Dubail commanding Groupe d'armées de l'Est (GAE: Eastern Army Group) planned a larger operation to consolidate...
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    Sangaris : attaque par un groupe lourdement armé au Nord-Ouest du pays Reuters : Accrochage entre forces françaises et un groupe armé en RCA France Info :...
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    rations. On 4 March, Général Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, commander of Groupe d'armées du Nord (GAN, Northern Army Group), advocated an attack while the Germans...
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    Aisne by early April. The French Groupe d'armées du Nord (GAN) attacked the Hindenburg Line at St Quentin on 13 April with no success and the "decisive" offensive...
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    and directed a military orchestra, which officially represented the Groupe d'armées du Nord [fr], notably welcoming royalty visiting the front — Albert...
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    involved over 2 million men. The French suffered 202,567 casualties. The Groupe d'Armées du Nord, commanded by Foch, comprised The 6th Army ( Fayolle ) with...
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    collapse altogether. By September, Ferdinand Foch the commander of Groupe d'armées du Nord (GAN) and co-ordinator of the Somme offensive, had stopped...
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    commanders increased during the night when Billotte, the commander of Groupe d'armées 1 (1st Army Group), told Barratt and d'Astier that "victory or defeat...
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    Offensive Operations"). On 20 April, General Ferdinand Foch, commander of Groupe d'armées du Nord (GAN, Northern Army Group) issued "L'Instruction du Général...
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    Ordres de bataille des grandes unités : grands quartiers généraux, groupe d'armées, armées, corps d'armée [Orders of battle for major units: general headquarters...
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    Fourth Army offensive against the German 4th Army was to support the Groupe d'armées du Nord (GAN, Northern Army Group) along the Chemin des Dames, in the...
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    failure of French attacks from 7 to 8 July, led General Ferdinand Foch, (Groupe d'armées du Nord) to order Fayolle to wait on the British attack (Pour le moment...
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    of artillery, 63 of which were heavy. The Sixth Army formed part of groupe d'armées du Nord (GAN, General Franchet d'Esperey). Before the Nivelle Offensive...
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    to the front to exploit success and on 8 July, Foch, commander of Groupe d'armées du Nord (GAN, Northern Army Group), ordered Fayolle to reinforce the...
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