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World War I in the Balkans: Who Were the Gardeners of Salonika ? While their comrades manned the trenches of the Western Front, a force of one million Allied troops languished in the dreary Greek port of Salonika. Here s What You Need to Know: The Salonika campaign cost the Allies 165,800 combat fatalities. The Germans mocked it as their largest prisoner-of-war camp, and French Premier Georges Clemenceau was hardly less withering in his opinion of the Allied stronghold at Salonika, Greece. “What are they doing?” he demanded. “Digging! Then let them be known as ‘the gardeners of Salonika.’” For the one million men who made up the Army of the Orient represented the Allies’ most polyglot force British, French, Arab, African, Indochinese, Foreign Legionnaires, Serbs, Russians, Italians, and Greeks it was no laughing matter. Together they languished for three years around the dreary Greek port in what military historian Brig. Gen. S.L.A. Marshall later termed “without

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