Charles Mangin
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Charles Emmanuel Marie Mangin was a French general during World War I.
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Mangin in the trenches, c. 1915.
Photograph taken at Fort du Regret (Verdun) in April 1916, showing senior commanders and officers of the 65th Infantry Regiment shortly before entering the front lines at Froide Terre. Mangin is stood third from the left.
Ferdinand Foch (left) in conversation with General Charles Mangin outside of the Minister of War's office in Paris, 2 November 1918.
Edith Cavell
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Edith Louisa Cavell was a British nurse. She is celebrated for treating wounded soldiers from both sides without discrimination during the First World War and for helping some 200 Allied soldiers esca
Charles Mangin
…Napoleon's tomb, and the statue, being a reminder of Mangin's machinations in the Rhineland, was one of two he ordered destroyed. The other was of Edith Cavell. A German demolition squad dynamited his statue and most of the bronze was later melted down. In 1957 a new statue was erected on the nearby Avenue de…
Edith Cavell
Cavell in a garden in Brussels with her two dogs before the outbreak of war
Cavell (seated centre) with a group of multinational student nurses whom she trained in Brussels
Florence Nightingale and Cavell on a postage stamp marking 60 years of the Costa Rican Red Cross