hero-commander

Updated: May 22, 2025

There came a time when the French were sick of slaying, and the German dead were piled mètres high on the slopes of Mort Homme and Cumières; in those weeks at the end of May, when the Germans, conscious that their prestige had suffered irreparably in the hundred days which were to have been four! of desperate and indecisive fighting, were at the opening of that fierce last effort which gave them Fort Vaux and its hero-commander, Commandant Raynal, on June 7th put them in short-lived possession of Thiaumont and Fleury later and was then interrupted at the end of the month by the thunder of the Allied attack on the Somme.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Fields of Victory