Army Group Centre (French: Groupe d'armées du Centre, G. A. C.) was a grouping of French field armies during World War I, which was created on June 22...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Illiberalism Studies Program Working Papers (3): 11. Retrieved 12 January 2021. "Groupe d'ultradroite "OAS": la plupart des suspects remis en liberté" [Far-right...
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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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réelle stratégie" L'Express : Centrafrique: "Une performance dont peu d'armées seraient capables" Le Parisien : EXCLUSIF.L'ambassadeur de France en Centrafrique :...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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be protected as they moved forward. Pétain wrote the plan for the Groupe d'armées du Centre, for the offensive of 25 September and his views were circulated...
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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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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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