"tache d’huile" citation from Double-Tongued Dictionary

Catchword: tache d’huile

Filed Under: Language, English, French, Subject, Military, Politics

Part of Speech: n.

The part of speech reflects that used in the full entry, and not necessarily the part of speech as it is used in the quotation below.

Quotation: Gallieni called this carefully coordinated military and social strategy the tache d’huile, the oil spot. Start out and carefully secure a hundred such bases and you are on your way to conquering a country.

Author:
Frederick Quinn

Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
French Overseas Empire

Date of Publication:
May 30, 2000

Page Number:
144

This cite belongs to a full entry for oil spot strategy.

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