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Joseph Joffre
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“Soldiers of Verdun! It is your valour which has made this possible, for your heroic resistance was the indispensable condition to our success. Upon it still depends our future victory. Upon all the vast theatres of Europe, thanks to you, there now exists a situation out of which will spring the definite triumph of our cause. I make one more appeal to your courage, your ardour, your spirit of sacrifice, your love of country. Hold fast and strive with all your might to shatter the last desperate efforts of an enemy now at bay.”
Joseph Joffre (1852–1931) first seen 1916 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: General Order (12 June 1916), quoted in Joseph Joffre, The Personal Memoirs of Joffre, Field Marshal of the French Army, Volume II (1932), p. 457
“I don't know who won the Battle of the Marne. But if it had been lost, I know who would have lost it.”
Joseph Joffre (1852–1931) said by 1931 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Campaign of the Marne (1935) by Sewell Tyng, p. 350.