August, after which there was a lull. Allied troops in the area were well rested by late September. The Groupe d'Armées des Flandres (GAF, Flanders Army...
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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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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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March the French Groupe d'armées du Nord (GAN), south of the junction with the British Fourth Army at Roye, was ordered to follow up a German retirement...
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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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Group Reserve (French: Groupe d'armées de réserve) or Army Group Rupture (French: Groupe d'armées de rupture), G. A. R.) was a grouping of French field...
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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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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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Army Group North (French: Groupe d'armées du Nord, GAN) was a grouping of French field armies during the First World War, which was created on June 13...
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Fourth Army of Groupe d'armées du Centre (GAC, Central Army Group Général Édouard de Castelnau), attacked at 9:15 a.m., with each division on a 1,500–2,000 yd...
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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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[including the BEF]), General Besson (Groupe d'armées 3), General Aubert Frère (Seventh Army) General Robert Altmayer (Group A/Tenth Army) and General Marcel...
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German-occupied Belgium. On 28 September 1918, in the Fifth Battle of Ypres, the Groupe d'Armées des Flandres ("Flanders Army Group" or GAF), under the command of Albert...
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(French: Groupe d'armées de l'Est, G. A. E.) was a grouping of French field armies during World War I, which was created on June 22, 1915 from the Groupe provisoire...
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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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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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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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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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Maginot Line (section Preparing for a long war)
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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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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one of a series of offensives in northern France and southern Belgium that took place in late September and October 1918. The Groupe d'Armées des Flandres...
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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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1er Volume. Ordres de bataille des grandes unités - Groupes D'Armées, Armées, Corps d'Armées. Ministère De la Guerre, Etat-Major de l'Armée - Service Historique...
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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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Ordres de bataille des grandes unités : grands quartiers généraux, groupe d'armées, armées, corps d'armée, 1923, 966 p. Service historique de l'armée...
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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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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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December 1915, Général Augustin Dubail commanding Groupe d'armées de l'Est (GAE: Eastern Army Group) planned a larger operation to consolidate the French position...
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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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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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