Beacon Lights of History: New hall of fame. Premier personalitiesWm. H. Wise, 1924 |
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... French boxing idol , was beaten by Jack Dempsey , the American heavyweight , and some of the lyrical French reporters of the battle declared that it was due to the hypnotic influence of Dempsey's fighting eye . With Briand ruined by ...
... French boxing idol , was beaten by Jack Dempsey , the American heavyweight , and some of the lyrical French reporters of the battle declared that it was due to the hypnotic influence of Dempsey's fighting eye . With Briand ruined by ...
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... French family . General Joffre likewise hails from the south of France . Another splendid soldier , de Castelnau ... French revolution guillotined most of the French nobility , and confiscated the property of the rich . Grandfather Foch ...
... French family . General Joffre likewise hails from the south of France . Another splendid soldier , de Castelnau ... French revolution guillotined most of the French nobility , and confiscated the property of the rich . Grandfather Foch ...
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... French Armies in the Field . In their second year at the school Joffre and Foch both passed an examination which abbreviated their course , in order that they might help fill the officer gaps in the newly reorganized French army ...
... French Armies in the Field . In their second year at the school Joffre and Foch both passed an examination which abbreviated their course , in order that they might help fill the officer gaps in the newly reorganized French army ...
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... French Indo - China and Madagascar , while he remained quietly at home , working away at his studies of that military past which must be used to illuminate the future and form the mind which can cope with emergencies . He probably knew ...
... French Indo - China and Madagascar , while he remained quietly at home , working away at his studies of that military past which must be used to illuminate the future and form the mind which can cope with emergencies . He probably knew ...
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... French armies , imbedding his sound principles in their minds . During his incumbency he taught nearly five hundred picked soldiers what was wrong with France in 1870 , and how to turn the tables on Germany whenever the next war should ...
... French armies , imbedding his sound principles in their minds . During his incumbency he taught nearly five hundred picked soldiers what was wrong with France in 1870 , and how to turn the tables on Germany whenever the next war should ...
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