Petal
in botany, one of the divisions markable capacity for training cadets. of a corolla consisting of several distinct In 1901 he was appointed to the faculty pieces. It is a modification of a leaf. It of the Ecole Superieure de Guerre. uerre. is generally larger than the calyx, and, When the war broke out, in 1914, he was unlike it, is as a rule brightly colored, a colonel, and as such, was in command i. e., white, red, blue, yellow, or some of of a force at Charleroi, in Belgium, the hues produced by their intermixture. where he distinguished himself by holding back a vastly superior force of Germans. His skillful retreat on this occasion lead to his being given command of a division with which he participated in the first battle of the Marne. În May, 10 MARSHAL HENRI PÉTAIN 1915, in the Artois sector, he captured over 10,000 Germans and a corresponding amount of war material. In the early part of 1916, he was placed in command of the troops defending Verdun, 4 days after the German attack had begun.
At that moment, and at that point, Ger- Sometimes the margins of the petals unite.