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    instance, the Ist Corps seized the Belfort Gap in a coup de main offensive in November 1944, their German opponents believing they had entrenched for...
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    horses were shot out from under him. Afterwards, he was posted to the 1er Régiment de Chasseurs d'Afrique [fr], the senior cavalry regiment of the Armée...
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    Alphonse Juin (category École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr alumni)
    1916 in command of a company of the 1er Régiment de Tirailleurs Marocains [fr], participating in the Nivelle Offensive in April 1917. He was selected for...
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