• Thumbnail for Fifth Battle of Ypres
    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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    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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  • Thumbnail for Battle of Arras (1940)
    Calais, cutting the lines of communication of the Allied armies of Groupe d'armées 1 (General Gaston Billotte) in the North-East Theatre of Operations...
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    French First Army under the command of the French 1st Army Group (fr:Groupe d'armées n° 1) of the North-Eastern Front (Front du Nord-est). Most of the BEF...
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  • Thumbnail for Second Battle of the Aisne
    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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  • Thumbnail for Operation Alberich
    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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  • Thumbnail for Battle of Courtrai (1918)
    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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    (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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    some of which had armoured-car units attached. On 15 March the French Groupe d'armées du Nord (GAN), south of the junction with the British Fourth Army at...
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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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    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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  • Thumbnail for French Army in World War I
    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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  • men. A Commando Group (groupe de commando) combined two teams for a total of 10 - 12 men, transportable by a single H-34 or two H-19 helicopters. A Commando...
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  • Thumbnail for Order of battle for the Battle of the Somme
    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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    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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    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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    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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  • Thumbnail for Battle of Bazentin Ridge
    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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    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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  • Thumbnail for Battle of Hartmannswillerkopf
    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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    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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    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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