biography
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March, Peyton Conway
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| lived:
| (1864–1955)
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| biography:
| US soldier, born in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. The son of a philologist, he graduated from Lafayette College, then from West Point (1888). He served in the Spanish-American War and in supressing the Philippine insurrection. In 1917 he was made chief of artillery of the American Expeditionary Force in World War 1. Appointed army chief-of-staff (1918), he reformed and improved army logistics in support of the enormous buildup of American troops and matériel in France. A rival of General John Pershing, the American field commander who favoured limits on the powers of the chief-of-staff, March left the army in 1921. He later published The Nation at War (1932), which continued his feud with Pershing. |
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