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Professore, poi comandante in seconda, dell'École de Guerre, Charles Lanrezac fu uno dei più fini strateghi, ma anche il meno ascoltato, alla vigilia della prima guerra mondiale.
Charles Lanrezac (31 July 1852 – 18 January 1925) was a French general, formerly a distinguished staff college lecturer, who commanded the French Fifth Army at the outbreak of the First World War.
Charles Louis Marie Lanrezac, né le 30 juillet 1852 à Pointe-à-Pitre et mort le 18 janvier 1925 à Neuilly-sur-Seine, est un général français qui s'est notamment illustré lors de la phase initiale de la Première Guerre mondiale, comme commandant la 5e armée française.
Charles Lanrezac (born July 31, 1852, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe—died Jan. 18, 1925, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Fr.) was a French army commander during the first part of World War I who, though a capable tactician, proved unable to stop the German advance in northern France and was consequently replaced.
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Born in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, in 1852, Charles Louis Marie Lanrezac was an unusual military personality of the Great War as a general who played one of the most controversial strategic roles.
Professore, poi comandante in seconda, dell'École de Guerre, Charles Lanrezac fu uno dei più fini strateghi, ma anche il meno ascoltato, alla vigilia della Prima guerra mondiale.
He ordered his northernmost troops, the Fifth Army under General Charles Lanrezac, to shift north and cooperate with the BEF in an attack on the German right. But far from striking an exposed German flank, Lanrezac ran into the full force of the German Second Army; on August 21, Lanrezac’s troops were repulsed with heavy losses and driven ...
