Word: douaumont
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Legion journeyed out and about Paris during the week to see old battlefields. Official tours followed the official farewell to Paris. Premier Poincare and Marshal ("They shall not pass") Petain received at Verdun. Lunch was served to hundreds in the market square, once razed but now reconstructed. The Douaumont Ossuary, a monument to 400,000 unidentified Frenchmen who fell defending the citadel, was dedicated. St. Mihiel, the Argonne, Belleau Wood drew steady streams of visitors. At least one news correspondent went to the bramble-hidden grave upon which a onetime U. S. President caused to be chiseled: "He has outsoared...
During the War, he was noted for a brilliant attack at Verdun which resulted in the recapture of Fort Douaumont and which earned for him the sobriquet of "the hero of Verdun." The following year he led his army into a brilliant but Pyrrhic victory on the Aisne...
Died. General Charles Marie Emmanuel Mangin, 59, famed one-armed hero of Verdun; in Paris, of appendicitis. It was in March, 1916, that he led the brilliant attack at Verdun which resulted in the retaking of Fort Douaumont (see FRANCE...