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    Maurice Paul Emmanuel Sarrail (6 April 1856 – 23 March 1929) was a French general of the First World War. Sarrail's openly socialist political connections...
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    October to combine into an Army of the Orient under the French commander Maurice Sarrail, they arrived in the Greek port of Thessaloniki (Salonica) too late...
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    submit a document requesting the High Commissioner of the Levant, Maurice Sarrail, to appoint a Druze governor of the Jabal Druze instead of captain...
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    Hill 1248 to the north of the city. The Allied commander-in-chief, Maurice Sarrail, made plans for a large spring offensive in 1917, besides attacking...
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    army that had landed in Thessaloniki under the command of General Maurice Sarrail, Venizelos publicly announced his total disagreement with the Crown's...
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    command imposed itself and after long discussions, French General Maurice Sarrail was placed in command of all Allied forces at Salonika, although they...
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  • take the Chegan village and the pass north of Lake Ostrovo. General Maurice Sarrail now prepared a counterattack against the First Bulgarian Army that...
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  • Revolt of 1925, but was quickly repressed by the forces of General Maurice Sarrail. Their newspapers were closed down and party leaders remained imprisoned...
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    held by the Italian troops. French troops in Korçë were under General Maurice Sarrail, and under direct command of Colonel Descoins. There were two groups...
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    France Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud (1798–1854), Marshal of France Maurice Sarrail (1856–1929) (heart) Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta...
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    victory in the May 1924 elections, Weygand was recalled in place of Maurice Sarrail that December. Weygand returned to France in 1925 embittered, seeing...
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    left-wing government came to power in 1914, he was due to be replaced by Maurice Sarrail in the autumn, but war broke out before this could take place. At the...
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    1941 Michael Martchenko, French-born Canadian illustrator, b. 1942 Maurice Sarrail, French soldier, General of Division during the First World War, b...
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  • Supreme commander became the French commander of the Armée d'Orient Maurice Sarrail. He was replaced as commander of the Armée d'Orient by Victor Cordonnier...
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    retreat via Albania. The French commander-designate in Thessaloniki, Maurice Sarrail, favoured a large-scale Allied operation in Macedonia against Bulgaria...
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    Allied Commander (26 March 1918 – 11 November 1918) Divisional General Maurice Sarrail – Commander of the Allied armies at the Salonika front (1915–1917)...
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    is deserving hanging twice. The French High Commissioner in Beirut, Maurice Sarrail, issued Decision No. 49S / 5 in August 1925, which ordered the exile...
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    raise troops and join the Allies. The local Allied commander-in-chief, Maurice Sarrail, welcomed their initiatives, but little headway was made due to the...
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    forced to halt their attempts to drive north. The forces of General Maurice Sarrail that consisted of three French and one British division dug in along...
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    ordered to dig in. This pre-emptive strike, however, thwarted general Sarrail's plans and forced him to postpone his offensive. The need for an Allied...
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    Thessaloniki in October 1915 under the joint command of French General Maurice Sarrail and British General Bryan Mahon. On 20 October, the French divisions...
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    Bojović Živojin Mišić Stepa Stepanović Pavle Jurišić Šturm Janko Vukotić Maurice Sarrail Adolphe Guillaumat Louis F. d'Espèrey Bryan Mahon George Milne Panagiotis...
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    Austria-Hungary. In September 1917 the French troops commanded by general Maurice Sarrail undertook an action against the armies of Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria...
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    capturing the residence of French High Commissioner of the Levant Maurice Sarrail before withdrawing amid heavy French bombardment. Towards the end of...
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    the Macedonian front during the First World War, 1917. He is accompanied by Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis (left) and General Maurice Sarrail (right)....
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    from Gallipoli early October. Under the command of French General Maurice Sarrail, two French divisions marched north towards Serbia, with the goal was...
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    Louis Franchet d'Espèrey Ferdinand Foch Fernand de Langle de Cary Maurice Sarrail John French Helmuth von Moltke Alexander von Kluck Karl von Bülow Max...
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  • the Macedonian front during the First World War, 1917. He is accompanied by Admiral Pavlos Koundouriotis (left) and General Maurice Sarrail (right)....
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    Saint-Dominique. Almost his first act as prime minister was to relieve General Maurice Sarrail from his command of the Salonika front. This was the main topic of...
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    southeast. Mount Sarrail can be seen from Upper Kananaskis Lake and Alberta Highway 40. The mountain was named in 1918 for General Maurice Sarrail (1856-1929)...
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