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Title: Marshal Ferdinand Foch, his life and his theory of modern war
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Atteridge, A. Hilliard (Andrew Hilliard)
Subjects: Foch, Ferdinand, 1851-1929 World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns Western Front Tactics
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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toDEsperey, asking him to give what help he could to theleft of the Ninth Army. And at 5 a.m. on September10th, Grosetti received his orders for the day. Humbert and the Morocco division were to hold onupon the left. Grosetti was to disengage his battalionsand batteries from the fighting line. As soon asDEspereys men came up to relieve them, he was to getthem together and march to a new front between Linthesand Pleurs, which he was to reach by midday. Arrivedthere, he was to push forward between the Ninth andEleventh Corps, and fall upon the flank of the Saxons. The actual wording of this important order (dated onthe evening of the 8th) is interesting. The 42nd Divi-sion, as soon as it is relieved by the Tenth Army Corps,will march by Broyes and St. Loup, to form a reservefor the army on the line Linthes-Pleurs. The point ofto-morrows manoeuvre is to debouch by F^re Champe-noise. Reports to be sent on all available forces and allactivity in this direction. . . . Whatever the situation
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a: -XT 0> THE VICTORIOUS MANCEUVRE 183 of the Eleventh Corps, we count upon resuming theoffensive against the front Connantre-Corroy, an offen-sive in which the Ninth Army Corps will co-operate onthe line Morains-F6re Champenoise. Foch believed he had found the fissure —the weakpoint in the enemys front against which the batteringram was to be swung. Why had he chosen it? ThePrussian Guard was being held about F^re Champe-noise. Von Hansens Saxons were pressing back theBreton corps, and by the evening of the 8th had gainedmore ground than the Guard, with the result that theSaxon right towards Corroy and Gourgangon was wellsouth of the left of the Guard on the ridges near FereChampenoise. There was not an actual opening in theenemys line; but the meeting point of two separate com-mands, tending to move forward in even slightly diver-gent directions, is likely to be weak. Foch did not trustto probabilities. He had in his teaching again andagain shown the danger of depending on theo

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