The Adrian M 1915 helmet was the military helmet distributed to French troops during the First World War. It was conceived as an emergency when millions of soldiers found themselves engaged in trench warfare and head injuries became a significant proportion of battlefield casualties. It replaced a s
However, Liggett did not underestimate his opponent. He did not envisage a frontal attack against the fortified position of the Bois de Bourgogne. Rather, he was thinking of seizing the heights of Barricourt and thus making the Bois de Bourgogne untenable. November 1 was chosen, in order to coordina
After having weighed and matured the lessons delivered by poorly coordinated actions, Pershing deemed it necessary to reorganize his army. He took sanctions:heads rolled, three division commanders and a corps commander were relieved of their duties. Some of these decisions were controversial; the A
While Bullard stalled in front of the Kriemhilde line, Liggett prepared a daring tactical maneuver to relieve the flank of his army. He assembled the 82nd Division and launched his attack across the Aire valley, capturing the escarpments overlooking the Argonne. This relieved the pressure on the los
A series of disorderly actionsAt the end of September, the A.E.F. trampled. The rear roads were hopelessly blocked. And the only three access roads to the front were, all three, exposed to German fire. Poorly supplied, the Allied troops did not benefit from the support of their artillery either. sin
Although the war in 1918 was essentially a fight of infantry, the Americans had powerful armour, artillery and air support; they could field 189 Renault Ft17 light tanks, nearly all of them under the command of the original, and brilliant, Lieutenant-Colonel George Smith Patton Junior, the same man
The Germans, worried, had committed all their reserves and their losses had been heavy, while the Allies now received a permanent stream of reinforcements from across the Atlantic. The Franco-American forces multiplied the counter-attacks. A general offensive was decided upon which involved a breakt
The Triple Alliance, contraction of the term Triple Alliance, is the name given on the eve of 1914 to the alliance concluded between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy. The beginnings In 1879, at the instigation of Bismarck, a rapprochement took place between Germany and Austria-Hungary:the Duplice
A Triple Entente refers to an alliance uniting three identities. The military alliance of France, the United Kingdom and Russia, referred to as the Triple Entente as opposed to the Triple Alliance, is in fact the combination of several agreements between the three countries. First there was a mili
Trenches are battle paths dug into the earth for the purpose of protecting troops from enemy attacks. They were never used as much as during the First World War, but they do not date from that time. Since the modern period (17th - 18th centuries), trenches have been dug for the siege of strongholds
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed on March 3, 1918 between the governments of the Central Powers, led by the German Empire and the young Bolshevik Republic, which emerged from the Russian Revolution in Russia in the city of Brest-Litovsk. From the beginning of 1917, the vast majority of the Ru
S There were two Battles of the Marne, both during the First World War. When we speak of the battle of the Marne, the name generally refers to the first, which took place from September 5 to 12, 1914; the second Battle of the Marne, meanwhile, took place mainly from July 15 to 20, 1918. Michael Of
The Arab Revolt (1916-1918) was launched by Hussein ibn Ali in order to obtain the independence of Arabia from the Ottoman Empire. He wanted to create a unified Arab state stretching from Aleppo in Syria to Aden in Yemen. The revolt is linked to the rise of Arab nationalist movements, determined to
There were two Battles of the Marne, both during the First World War. However, the name generally refers to the first, which took place from September 5 to 12, 1914; the second Battle of the Marne, meanwhile, took place from July 15 to 18, 1918. In 1914, France, England and Russia declared war on G
The military identity tag (unofficial name in English:Dog tag) is an element of the uniform that provides the identity of the wearer, in the event that the circumstances of his death (disfigurement, disappearance of comrades, etc. .) would compromise the certainty of its identification. It was only
The Schlieffen plan is a meticulous organization for the German armed forces successively put into practice during the First and Second World Wars. It owes its name to Marshal-Count Alfred von Schlieffen (1833-1913) who was military attaché in Paris from 1867 to 1869 and commander of the German arm
In 1917, after three years of a deadly and indecisive war of which no one saw the end, weariness affected all the European armies whose morale was at its lowest. Inside the French troops, the bloody failure of the Nivelle offensive on the Chemin des Dames in the spring of 17, the appalling living c
Scars on the faces of the soldiers We called broken jaws the soldiers with faces marked by shrapnel, who failed to end their lives... just. The severity of these wounds was new, since this was the first trench warfare, and the weaponry was different from that of previous wars. We were coming out of
Desertion Deserters made the worst mistake a soldier could make at that time. They gave up supporting the country, and preferred to save their lives rather than help their comrades. Each deserter found was shot, because he had committed an act of abandonment according to the court-martial, and it w
One year that the shells are projected from everywhere on the front, that the men kill each other, subjected to the orders of the General Staff and already condemned by getting on the train which takes them to their section when, in Switzerland, with the editorial staff of the Zimmerwald Manifesto o
(Decize, Nivernais, 1767 - Paris, 1794.) Politician , one of the main figures of the French Revolution.Of bourgeois origins, Saint-Just was the son of a light horse captain. In 1776, the latter moved with his family to Blérancourt, in the Aisne. The young Saint-Just completed his studies with the Or
The defeat of the allies in the Battle of France , and the subsequent armistice signed on June 22, 1940 in the wagon of revenge, left France divided in two:a German occupation zone in the north and west and an unoccupied zone, the free zone, in the south with the Vichy puppet government. Despite the
The Battle of Fetterman, also called the Fetterman Massacre or Fetterman Affair by Americans or Combat-Des-Cent-Dans-La-Main by Native Americans, was a clash of Red Clouds War that took place on December 21, 1866 on the Bozeman Trail, 4 miles (6 km) north of Fort Phil Kearny, in what is now upstate
ABOUT 1.8 MILLION YEARS AGO:Appearance of Homo erectus: A new species of hominid develops in Africa , this is homo erectus (the trained man ). He is so called because he walks completely straight and upright. At this time, the savannah was dry and sparsely treed. Homo erectus therefore had to learn