George Albert Bazaine Hayter

George Albert BazaineHayter , known as Albert, was a French general, son of PierreDominique Bazaine and nephew of Marshal Bazaine, on whose General Staff he served in the French intervention in Mexico and during the FrancoPrussian War. He described the French position in 1870 We had no preparation no horses to haul the artillery reserves and the bridge equipment, no tools to dig the trenches our machine guns arrived directly from the factories and those using them were not properly trained in their use our artillery was inferior in number, in effectiveness and in reach, in summary, we were powerless against the Prussian artillery. Our battle formations, already old in 1859, were oldfashioned and stuck in a rut our procedures and regulations had not been reviewed for overyears our orders, brave beyond doubt, were ignorant, without doctrine and without initiative. These were the causes of our defeats, of all our defeats.

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