Excerpts from the Book 'General Joffre':

... of greater strength than distinction, but his bonhomie and kindliness of manner add a real charm, an irresistible fascination, to the face of a ...
... their passage from one land to the other. It is at this juncture that Rivesaltes stands, a picturesque townlet of some 6,000 inhabitants, which ...
... facility for mathematics figures and formulae had for him as much fascination as marbles and sweets had for his playmates, who always thought ...
... of which now held knowledge which he had not made also his own. For the first time since his early school days he listened to the call of the great, ...
... a population of over three and a half million inhabitants. Kelung, the chief city, was accordingly bombarded and a landing effected. But the French ...
... home, and received his majority the following year on May 6th, 1889, being gazetted as Commandant and appointed, to a staff office at the Cabinet ...
... is the tremendous task which their successors have boldly undertaken. Forced to retire ever farther inland to more inaccessible regions, the unruly ...
... After a few years many miles of line had been laid hastily and badly through inadequately surveyed and exceedingly difficult country, the inevitable ...
... became in 1892. Towards the end of 1893 Colonel Bonnier had left Segu, on the Niger, with a small flotilla, and had reached Timbuctu on January ...
... Niger are only less admirable than the care he took of the lives and of the health of his men. During six consecutive months of incessant guerilla ...
... GENERAL JOFFRE CHAPTER IV. MADAGASCAR AFTER two years of incessant and peculiarly trying work in the Sudan, Lieutenant-Colonel Joffre ...
... of man as it naturally was from the fury of the elements. Nothing, however, or next to nothing, was attempted during the years which followed ...
... Madagascar, he was given the command of the 19th Artillery Brigade. In July 1903 he was raised to the dignity of Commandeur de la L'egion d'Honneur, ...
... safeguarding the menaced national existence, were lightly sacrificed for vote-catching Utopian reforms. But never did Joffre complain, never did he ...
... of Omdurman, Lord Kitchener addressing the superior officers of the Expeditionary Force told them in a few words that he had safely brought them to ...
... faith was tottering in doubting souls then above the thundering roar of the cannon came Joffre's bugle call En avant! Now, said he to his men, ...
... its head to the impetuous genius of the race : Joffre had but to say the word, but he did not say it-the price would have been too great. That generous ...
... numbers and her power feverishly casting more guns and ever more formidable guns grimly piling up stores of ammunition beyond anything ever known ...
... And whilst he must have known full well the various weak points in the armour of the French frontier, he could not have known, nor even dared to anticipate, ...
... Sea DogsBibliographical note: p. 241-245.Zenchiku Ujinobu : Aoi No UyeA. A. Alvarez (born 19 February 1982) is the author of the book, Chronicles ...