More and more the solidity of the whole French position in the Red River Delta rested on the shoulders of a small group of young energetic colonels whom de Lattre had nicknamed Mare chaux d'Empire-Marshals of the Empire-in remembrance of the group of daring French military leaders whose fast-moving armies held Napoleon's empire together. This was exactly the case with
the half-dozen regimental and airborne combat teams commanded by such men as Colonels Vanuxem, de Castries, Kergaravat, Blanckaert, Gilles, and Langlais, who soon became famous for the drive and energy with which they led their
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