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3 giorni fa · Joffre’s assessment of the French Army’s ability to emerge victorious was judged to be below 70 per cent in 1911 during the provocation of the Agadir crisis, and therefore not enough in the republic’s favour to go to war (p. 36).
5 giorni fa · Against the wishes of General Joseph Joffre, General Sir Douglas Haig abandoned the offensive north of the road to reinforce the success in the south, where the British–French forces pressed forward through several intermediate lines closer to the German second position.
26 mag 2024 · On the battlefield, Commander-in-Chief Joseph Joffre ordered a series of ambitious offensives to break the German lines. The First Battle of Artois in December hurled 400,000 French troops against heavily fortified positions near Arras, while the Champagne Offensive further south aimed to capture a vital railway junction at Mézières.
3 giorni fa · In November, Haig, the French commander-in-chief Joseph Joffre and the other Allies met at Chantilly. The commanders agreed on a strategy of simultaneous attacks, to overwhelm the Central Powers on the Western, Eastern and Italian fronts, by the first fortnight of February 1917.
29 mag 2024 · Haig rejected the plan of the French commander, Joseph-Jacques-Césaire Joffre, that he should again throw his troops frontally on the Thiepval defenses. The attack was resumed on the southern British flank alone, and on July 14 the capture of the Germans’ second line (Longueval, Bazentin-le-Petit, and Ovillers) offered a chance ...
25 mag 2024 · 8. Joseph Joffre. Joseph Joffre served as the Chief of the French General Staff from 1911 to 1916 and played a significant role in shaping France‘s military strategy during the early years of World War I.
4 giorni fa · General Joseph Joffre, the Commander-in-Chief of the French Army, had concluded from the swift capture of the Belgian fortresses at the Battle of Liège and at the Siege of Namur in 1914 that fortifications had been made obsolete by German super-heavy siege artillery.
