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Ducrot ordered the retreat that Moltke had expected, but was overruled almost immediately by General de Wimpffen, who threw his forces against the Saxons at La Moncelle.
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Ducrot ordered the army to withdraw, but then General de Wimpffen presented a commission authorizing him to succeed Mac-Mahon.
Wimpffen overruled Ducrot, and ordered a counterattack that failed completely.
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Fighting began in earnest at 0600, and the wounded MacMahon had appointed General Auguste Ducrot to command, who received the news at 0700.
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A new cultural, economic and industrial growth was spurred by more families, like the Florio, the Ducrot, the Rutelli, the Sandron, the Whitaker, the Utveggio, and other families.
What made a bad situation much worse was the conduct of General Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot, commander of MacMahon's 1st Division.
Marshal MacMahon was wounded during the attacks and command passed to General Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot.
By December 2 the Württemberg Corps drove Ducrot back into the defenses and the battle was over by December 3.
In the disastrous Battle of Sedan on the first of September, MacMahon was soon wounded, and the senior officer, General Ducrot, assumed the command.
Ducrot was beginning to withdraw the troops when Wimpffen produced his commission and countermanded the orders.
Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot ( 24 February 1817 – 16 August 1882 ) was a French general.
Ducrot refused to sign the articles of surrender, and was imprisoned by the Prussians.
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Even though Ducrot shrugged off the possibility of an attack by the Germans, MacMahon still tried to warn the other divisions of his army, without success.
At this point Ducrot received gravely flawed intelligence: " on the basis of reconnaissance performed by the colonel commanding the 96th regiment, he did not believe the enemy present in enough strength to attempt any serious enterprise in the immediate future.
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With MacMahon wounded on the previous day, General Auguste Ducrot took command of the French troops in the field.
At the outbreak of war, General Ducrot, commanding the 6th French Division at Strasbourg, issued orders to withdraw the elements of his forces stationed at Wissembourg and Lauterbourg.
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Nevertheless he sent Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot with 80, 000 soldiers against the Prussians at Champigny, Créteil and Villiers.
Ducrot commanded the most important French attack against the Prussian besiegers ( the Battle of Villiers ), 29 November-3 December 1870.
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At the 1984 Olympic Games, Erik Breukink competed with Gert Jakobs, Maarten Ducrot and Jos Albertsin the 100 km Team Pursuit and finish fourth place.
Ducrot served in Algeria, in the Italian campaign of 1859, and as a division commander in the Franco-Prussian War.
After the defeat of this attack, Ducrot urged the French government to make peace.
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Montgomery ordered all contingency plans for retreat to be destroyed.
On September 26, 1996, as the Taliban with military support by Pakistan and financial support by Saudi Arabia prepared for another major offensive Massoud ordered a full retreat from Kabul.
Alexander was promoted to Commander-in-Chief of Allied Land Forces in Burma, March 1942, and ordered Slim to abandon Mandalay and retreat to India.
On September 26, 1996, as the Taliban with military support by Pakistan and financial support by Saudi Arabia prepared for another major offensive, Massoud ordered a full retreat from Kabul.
Carson ’ s battalions fought until ordered to retreat.
Determined to make the Flemish pay for his retreat, every district he passed through he ordered that all towns be razed and burned, and that the peasantry were either killed or sold as slaves.
Realising that he had no hope of holding Jerusalem even if he took it, Richard ordered a retreat.
On September 26, 1996, as the Taliban with military support by Pakistan and financial support by Saudi Arabia prepared for another major offensive, Massoud ordered a full retreat from Kabul to continue anti-Taliban resistance in the Hindu Kush mountains instead of engaging in street battles in Kabul.
Agis, now wounded and unable to stand, ordered his men to leave him behind to face the advancing Macedonian army so that he could buy them time to retreat.
Fannin was ordered by General Sam Houston on March 11, 1836, to abandon Goliad and retreat to Victoria, but delayed his retreat until March 19.
Seeing that his only choice was to keep the army together enough to be able to fight on favorable grounds, Houston ordered a retreat towards the U. S. border, and many settlers also fled in the same direction.
The resulting Battle of Elandslaagte was a clear-cut British tactical victory, but Sir George White feared that more Boers were about to attack his main position and ordered a chaotic retreat from Elandslaagte, throwing away any advantage gained.
After his first attacks failed, Buller broke off the battle and ordered a retreat, abandoning many wounded men, several isolated units and ten field guns to be captured by Botha's men.
The Sigambri retreat, and Caesar arrives, complaining that the troops had not been kept within the camp, as he had ordered.
This disorganized the Swedish troops and Lewenhaupt ordered a tactical retreat to follow his main orders not to risk the supplies.
It was the decisive point in the Confederate loss at Gettysburg and Lee ordered a retreat back to Virginia the following day.
Given the extremely disadvantaged position in which the English were, Vernon ordered a retreat but not before throwing some 300 bombs on the city.
Washington ordered him to attack the retreating enemy, but instead, Lee ordered a retreat.
On December 12, under heavy artillery fire and aerial bombardment, General Tang Sheng-chi ordered his men to retreat.
With the loss of a senior commander and his army being broken up in street fighting, Northampton ordered a retreat.
Philip himself was wounded, and, at nightfall, ordered the French to retreat.
With his forces vastly outnumbered and outgunned, Serb Vojvoda Marshal Radomir Putnik ordered a full retreat of the Serbian military south and west through Montenegro and into Albania on 25 November 1915.
Concerned by the defeat at Gumbinnen and the continued advance of the Russian Second Army from the south, Prittwitz ordered a retreat to the Vistula, effectively abandoning East Prussia.
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