4 e armée (France)

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The 4 e armée ( German  4th Army ) was an army of the French army that was used in the First and Second World Wars .

history

First World War

The 4 e armée was in World War one of the five armies in the mobilization after the Plan XVII were set up. At that time it had three army corps (XII., XVII. And I Colonial Corps) and a cavalry division (9th) and was commanded by General Fernand Louis Langle de Cary .

After being ordered to advance through the Ardennes , the army was defeated in the Battle of Neufchâteau (August 22-23, 1914) by the German 4th Army under Albrecht von Württemberg and went back to the Meuse and later behind the Marne forced. After the Battle of the Marne , the army held the front in Champagne with headquarters in Châlons . From December 1914 to March 1915 she was involved in the winter battle in Champagne . From September 1915 he took part in the autumn battle in Champagne and at the beginning of 1916 fights for the Ferme de Navarin .

From April 1917 the army attacked in the Auberive-sur-Suippe area during the Battle of the Aisne . In May and June 1918 British troops were deployed in the area of ​​the 4th Army. From July 15 to 18, it repulsed attacks by the German armies east of Reims . In the course of the Meuse-Argonne offensive in September and October 1918, it advanced with the First United States Army , neighboring on the right , and reached the Aisne in order to advance to the Sedan  - Mézières area until the armistice was reached .

Commander in chief

Second World War

During the Second World War, the army was set up in September 1939 to defend the Maginot Line in the Saar and Lorraine region under General Édouard Réquin . It was part of the 2nd Army Group under André-Gaston Prételat and at the beginning of the German campaign in the west had two army corps and two independent divisions, one of which was Polish. In the course of the Saar Offensive , a small offensive at the beginning of the Seated War , troops of the 2nd Army Group advanced a few kilometers into German territory in September 1939. After the defeat of France in June 1940 , it was dissolved.

literature

  • Les Armées françaises dans la Grande guerre ( AFGG ) , Tome X / Vol. 1: Ordre de bataille des grandes unités. , Paris 1923, pp. 203-263, digitized on Gallica .

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