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What were the main generals for WW1?

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Updated: 8/20/2019

Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich

- Commander-in-chief

(1 August 1914 -- 5 September 1916) and viceroy in the Caucasus
Alexander Samsonov

- Commander of the Russian Second Army for the invasion of East Prussia

(1 August 1914 -- 29 August 1914)
Paul von

Rennenkampf

- Commander of the Russian First Army for the invasion of East Prussia (1 August 1914 - November 1914)
Nikolai Ivanov

- Commander of the Russian army on the Southwestern Front, (1 August 1914 - March 1916) responsible for much of the action in Galicia


Aleksei

Brusilov

- Commander of the South-West

Front, then provisional Commander-in-Chief

after the Tsar's abdication (February 1917 - August 1917)
Lavr

Georgievich

Kornilov

- Commander of the South-West

Front, then Commander-in-Chief

(August 1917)

France

Joseph Joffre

- Commander-in-Chief

of the French Army

(3 August 1914 - 13 December 1916) and Marshal of France
Robert Nivelle

- Commander-in-Chief

of the French Army (13 December 1916 - April 1917)
Philippe Pétain

- Commander-in-Chief

of the French Army (April 1917 - 26 March 1918) and Marshal of France
Ferdinand Foch - Commander-in-Chief

of the French Army and Marshal of France, Supreme Allied Commander (26 March 1918 - 11 November 1918)

United Kingdom

William Robertson - Chief of the Imperial General Staff
John French - Commander-in-Chief

of the British Expeditionary Force (4 August - 15 December 1915)
Douglas Haig

- Commander-in-Chief

of the British Expeditionary Force (15 December 1915 - 11 November 1918)
"Jackie" Fisher - First Sea Lord - (1914 - May 1915)
Henry Jackson - First Sea Lord - (May 1915 - November 1916)
John Jellicoe

- First Sea Lord (November 1916 - December 1917)

Commonwealth of Australia

John Monash

- Commander of the Australian Corps (all five Australian infantry divisions serving on the Western Front) (May 1918 - )

Dominion of Canada

Julian Byng

(June 1916 - June 1917) Canadian Corps commander
Edwin Alderson

- Commander of the unified Canadian Corps

of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (26 January 1915-September 1915)
Arthur Currie - Commander of the unified Canadian Corps of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (June 1917 - )

United States

John J. Pershing - Commander of the American Expeditionary Force

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