Lyautey

On the one hand, the incompetence of Bazaine, Nivelle, Gamelin, Weygand; on the other, the astonishing, almost Pascalian insight and intelligence of certain rigid military figures, such as Lyautey, Galliéni, Leclerc and De Gaulle.

French Army Lukacs, John 1963

A month later, Ike and Marshall were livid when they learned that Eddy had smuggled to London René Malvergne, an anti-Nazi and the retired chief pilot at Port Lyautey, to guide the U.S. Navy when it reached the French Moroccan coast.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

Even Malvergne, the pilot Eddy had caught so much heat for smuggling out, succeeded in steering the USS Dallas destroyer through a narrow channel from Port Lyautey off the Moroccan coast, dodging sandbars, sunken ships, and Vichy shore fire so seventy-five U.S. Army rangers could debark and seize the nearby airport.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

A month later, Ike and Marshall were livid when they learned that Eddy had smuggled to London René Malvergne, an anti-Nazi and the retired chief pilot at Port Lyautey, to guide the U.S. Navy when it reached the French Moroccan coast.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

Even Malvergne, the pilot Eddy had caught so much heat for smuggling out, succeeded in steering the USS Dallas destroyer through a narrow channel from Port Lyautey off the Moroccan coast, dodging sandbars, sunken ships, and Vichy shore fire so seventy-five U.S. Army rangers could debark and seize the nearby airport.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

"'A workshop is worth a battalion, 'said Lyautey time and again, for, to him, an army was less a fighting machine than an assemblage of doctors and artisans." - from "The History of French Colonial Policy" by Stephen Henry Roberts

French Word-A-Day: 2007

"'A workshop is worth a battalion, 'said Lyautey time and again, for, to him, an army was less a fighting machine than an assemblage of doctors and artisans." - from "The History of French Colonial Policy" by Stephen Henry Roberts

chantier - French Word-A-Day 2007

"'A workshop is worth a battalion, 'said Lyautey time and again, for, to him, an army was less a fighting machine than an assemblage of doctors and artisans." - from "The History of French Colonial Policy" by Stephen Henry Roberts

French Word-A-Day: 2007

"'A workshop is worth a battalion,' said Lyautey time and again, for, to him, an army was less a fighting machine than an assemblage of doctors and artisans." -from "The History of French Colonial Policy" by Stephen Henry Roberts

chantier - French Word-A-Day 2007

"'A workshop is worth a battalion,' said Lyautey time and again, for, to him, an army was less a fighting machine than an assemblage of doctors and artisans." -from "The History of French Colonial Policy" by Stephen Henry Roberts

French Word-A-Day: 2007