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Twenty Years as Military Attaché
Twenty Years as Military Attaché
Twenty Years as Military Attaché
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A memoir written by Colonel T. Bentley Mott, reflecting on his time as a U.S. military attaché, serving in France, among other locales, and relating personal anecdotes about many early 20th century military and political figures, including Admiral Dewey, General Merritt, Czar Nicholas, Theodore Roosevelt, Pershing and others.

Mott served the United States in various capacities during the Spanish-American War and World War I.
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Release dateJul 31, 2017
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Twenty Years as Military Attaché
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Col. Thomas Bentley Mott

COLONEL THOMAS BENTLEY MOTT, S.S., D.S.M., L.M. (May 16, 1865 - December, 1952) was a decorated American army officer. Born in Leesburgh, Virginia, to Dr. Armistead Randolph and Virginia Bentley Mott, he graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1886. After serving in the army and attending artillery school, he returned to West Point as a teacher around 1890. In 1895 he joined the staff of General Wesley Merritt (1834-1910) as his aide-de-camp, and served under him in the invasion of Manila during the Spanish-American War in 1898. Mott was appointed United States military attaché in Paris in 1900, a position he held for 20 years, including 10 years with Ambassador Myron T. Herrick (1854-1929). Mott retired from the army in 1914, but asked to be recalled to active service when the United States entered World War I. He returned to France with General John J. Pershing (1860-1948), whom he represented on the staff of Marshal Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929). After the end of WWI the French awarded Mott the ribbon of a Commandeur de la Légion d’Honneur. On 23 May 1923, he married Rose Gabrille Georgette Saint Paul (1891-1943), who had become a heroine to the French during WWI for outfitting and running a mobile hospital. She was awarded the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, Croix de Guerre, and the American Order of Merit. Mott turned to writing and published several books: Myron T. Herrick: Friend of France (1929); The Memoirs of Marshall Foch (1931); The Memoirs of Marshall Joffre (1932); and his autobiography, Twenty Years as Military Attaché (1937). During World War II, the Motts lived in Biarritz, France, where Mott served as head of the American Fund for the French Wounded, and Georgette founded the Aid for the Cote Basque, a relief agency to feed hungry French children. Georgette died on 26 January 1943 in Cannes, France. Col. Mott died in Biarritz 17 December 1952, aged 87, and is buried beside his wife.

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