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Field Marshal Viscount Alanbrooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff and co-chairman of the Anglo-US Combined Chiefs of Staff Committee for most of the Second World War, described the art of military strategy as: " to derive from the aim a series of military objectives to be achieved: to assess these objectives as to the military requirements they create, and the pre-conditions which the achievement of each is likely to necessitate: to measure available and potential resources against the requirements and to chart from this process a coherent pattern of priorities and a rational course of action.
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She was the John Harvey, one of those Atlantic sea-horses that had sailed to Bari to bring beans, bombs, and bullets to the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, to Field Marshal Montgomery's Eighth Army then racing up the calf of the boot of Italy in that early December of 1943.
It is `` Defeat Into Victory '', by Field Marshal Viscount Slim.
Field Marshal Slim has abridged it for the benefit of `` those who, finding not so great an attraction in accounts of military moves and counter-moves, are more interested in men and their reactions to stress, hardship and danger ''.
The man whose reactions and conclusions get the most space is, of course, the Field Marshal himself.
Field Marshal Slim is striking in description, amusing in many anecdotes.
Before he could return to Burma, Field Marshal Slim had to rally the defeated remnants of a discouraged army and unite them with fresh recruits.
Commenting on these and other matters, Field Marshal Slim makes many frank and provocative remarks:
Field Marshal Slim is more impressed by the courage of Japanese soldiers than he is by the ability of their commanders.
Brooding about future wars, the Field Marshal has this to say: `` The Asian fighting man is at least equally brave ( as the white ), usually more careless of death, less encumbered by mental doubts, less troubled by humanitarian sentiment, and not so moved by slaughter and mutilation around him.
It is Field Marshal Montgomery's belief that in most Western countries about 60 per cent of the people do not really care about democracy or Christianity ; ;
* 1943 – World War II: The U. S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.
At the end of 1874, when Field Marshal Serrano left Madrid to take command of the northern army in the Carlist War, Brigadier Martínez Campos, who had long been working more or less openly for the king, led some battalions of the central army to Sagunto, rallied to his own flag the troops sent against him, and entered Valencia in the king's name.
# Field Marshal ( Abbreviated: FM ) – O11.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is currently the only living holder of the rank of Field Marshal in the Australian Army.
Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC (; 17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976 ), nicknamed " Monty " and the " Spartan General ", was a British Army officer.
The only forces immediately available for Vienna's defence were Prince Louis of Baden's force of 36, 000 stationed in the Lines of Stollhofen to watch Marshal Tallard at Strasbourg ; there was also a weak force of 10, 000 men under Field Marshal Count Limburg Styrum observing Ulm.
Two hours later the Duke, accompanied by the Dutch field commander Field Marshal Overkirk, General Daniel Dopff, and the Allied staff, rode up to Cadogan where on the horizon to the westward he could discern the massed ranks of the French army deploying for battle along the four mile ( 6. 4 km ) front.
Field Marshal George Hamilton 1666-1737 Earl of Orkney, by Martin Maingaud.
* Hughes, Matthew ( edited and selected ) ( 2004 ) Allenby in Palestine The Middle East Correspondence of Field Marshal Viscount Allenby June 1917 – October 1919 Publications of the Army Records Society Vol.
The Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | Duke of Wellington's and Field Marshal von Blücher's triumph over Napoleon I of France | Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo
A Coalition of Anglo-Dutch and Prussian Armies under the Duke of Wellington and Field Marshal von Blücher defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
Meanwhile the Thai government, under the pro-Japanese leadership of Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram, took advantage of its position and invaded Cambodia's western provinces.
* Polní Podmaršálek-Lieutenant Field Marshal ( used 1918-1920 )
In recognition of his senior position in the Allied command, on December 20, 1944 he was promoted to General of the Army, equivalent to the rank of Field Marshal in most European armies.
Field and Viscount
* Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, Field Marshal, British Army
* Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, General ( later Field Marshal ), British Army
* Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, General ( later Field Marshal ), British Army
* Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, Field Marshal, British Army
* March 31 – John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, British Field Marshal ( b. 1886 )
* June 16 – Battle of Stoke Field: The rebellion of pretender Lambert Simnel, led by John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln, and Francis Lovell, 1st Viscount Lovell, is crushed by troops loyal to Henry VII.
* Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein ( Field Marshal )
Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | Bernard Montgomery
Field Marshal Viscount Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial general Staff and co-chairman of the Anglo-US Combined Chiefs of Staff
File: Field Marshal The Viscount Slim. jpg | Viscount Slim
File: Statue of " Monty " Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, Whitehall, London-geograph. org. uk-306882. jpg | Viscount " Monty " of Alamein
* July – September 1943: His Excellency Field Marshal The Right Honourable the Viscount Wavell, GCB, CMG, MC
* September 1943 – 1947: His Excellency Field Marshal The Right Honourable the Viscount Wavell, GCB, GCSI, GCIE, CMG, MC
Field Marshal John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, VC, GCB, CBE, DSO & Two Bars, MVO, MC ( 10 July 1886 – 31 March 1946 ), was a British and Anglo-Irish soldier.
Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby GCB, GCMG, GCVO ( 23 April 1861 – 14 May 1936 ) was a British soldier and administrator most famous for his role during the First World War, in which he led the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in the conquest of Palestine and Syria in 1917 and 1918.
Allenby was made a Field Marshal in 1919, and on 7 October of that year was created Viscount Allenby, of Megiddo and of Felixstowe in the County of Suffolk.
It was created on 14 March 1952 for the prominent military commander Field Marshal Harold Alexander, 1st Viscount Alexander of Tunis.
* Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon ( 1675 – 1740 ), Field Marshal
Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres, KP, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCMG, ADC, PC ( 28 September 1852 – 22 May 1925 ), known as The Viscount French between 1916 and 1922, was an Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army.
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