The French suffered 1,500 dead taking Crête-à-Pierrot

Evidence

In taking Crête-à-Pierrot, the French had suffered 1,500 soldiers killed and many more wounded, a serious loss for the expeditionary force. Leclerc, embarrassed by the defeat, ordered his officers to misreport the extent of the casualties, as he did in his own reports. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 971

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• CANDY: That an embarrassed general ordered his own officers to doctor their casualty reports is a compactly ironic detail.

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