1. Michel-Joseph Maunoury was wounded as a lieutenant in the Franco-Prussian War.
15 Facts About Michel-Joseph Maunoury
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Michel-Joseph Maunoury studied at the Ecole de Guerre, and was then an instructor at St Cyr before becoming a full colonel.
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Michel-Joseph Maunoury commanded an artillery brigade then from 1905 commanded III then XX Corps.
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Michel-Joseph Maunoury was a member of the Conseil Superieur de la Guerre and was then Military Governor of Paris.
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Michel-Joseph Maunoury was earmarked for command of an army in the event of war, but retired in 1912.
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Michel-Joseph Maunoury dissolved the Army of Lorraine and sent its staff to Maunoury's new army, although not its divisions which were reabsorbed into Third Army.
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Spears wrote that Michel-Joseph Maunoury was able to fall back behind the River Avre because of the Battle of Guise.
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Gallieni put Antoine Drude's newly arrived 45th Infantry Division under Michel-Joseph Maunoury, raising Sixth Army to about 150,000 soldiers.
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Michel-Joseph Maunoury was to take up positions north-east of Meaux and was due to attack the next day along the north bank of the Marne.
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Together with the BEF, Michel-Joseph Maunoury had 191 battalions and 942 guns against von Kluck's 128 battalions and 748 guns.
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Michel-Joseph Maunoury enjoyed a numerical superiority of 32 infantry battalions and 2 cavalry divisions.
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Von Kluck was not concerned about the BEF, which he thought could be held off by two German cavalry corps, and thought that German First Army was about to turn Michel-Joseph Maunoury's left flank, and was dumbfounded to be ordered to retreat.
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War Minister Millerand rebuked Joffre, who rebuked Michel-Joseph Maunoury, who in turn passed the blame on to Berthelot, and there was an angry debate in the French Parliament, just reconvened after its return from Bordeaux.
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Michel-Joseph Maunoury was severely wounded by being shot through the eye by a German sniper and rendered partially blind while touring the front on 11 March 1915, thereby ending his active career.
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Michel-Joseph Maunoury died in 1923, and was posthumously elevated to the dignity of Marshal of France.