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Robert Georges Nivelle (15 October 1856 – 22 March 1924) was a French artillery officer who served in the Boxer Rebellion, and the First World War. Nivelle was a very capable commander and organizer of field artillery at the regimental and divisional levels. In May 1916, he was given command of the French Second Army in the Battle of Verdun, leading counter-offensives that rolled back the ...
31. März 2015 · Robert Nivelle, the man who planned the spring 1917 Nivelle Offensive, was a hero of the Battle of Verdun and a man who had acquired friends at the highest levels of French politics. The failure of the Nivelle Offensive ended in his sacking as Commander-in-Chief of the French Army and his posting to North Africa where he spent the rest of World ...
Robert Georges Nivelle ( 15. října 1856, Tulle, Francie – 22. března, 1924, Paříž, Francie) byl francouzský dělostřelecký důstojník, který sloužil v Boxerském povstání a v 1. světové válce. Byl velitelem a organizátorem polního dělostřelectva. S důstojníkem Philippe Pétainem velel francouzské druhé armádě v ...
Nivelle's replacement as Commander-in-Chief was Henri-Philippe Petain. Petain restored the fighting capacity of the French forces by improving living conditions for soldiers at the front, and by restricting himself to defensive operations. Robert Nivelle died on 22 March 1924.
Abgestimmt mit dem britischen Angriff auf Arras begann die französische Armee unter dem neuen Oberbefehlshaber Georges Robert Nivelle (1858-1924) am 6. April 1917 eine Großoffensive an der Aisne und in der Champagne. Die erste Angriffswelle der Franzosen an der Aisne richtete sich auf die Linie zwischen Soissons und Reims. Nach einem ...
Nivelle was reassigned to North Africa on May 15, with supreme command passing to generals Petain and Foch. While the French Army struggled to reassert itself, the Entente war effort was left mainly in the hands of the British. The Nivelle Offensive was perhaps the most disastrous single offensive of the war. Sources: Cowley, Robert et al. The ...
