Nostradamus has predicted:

General Alexander's strategy against the troops of general Kesselring.

According to my own method of interpretation,
only french lines in dark blue will be analysed and interpreted



QuatrainI-75

Le tyran Sienne occupera Savone,
Le fort gagné tiendra classe marine:

Les deux armées par la marche D'Ancone,
Par effrayeur le chef s'en examine.

The tyrant from Siena will occupy Savone,
The captured fort will resist the fleet:

The two armies by the Marches of Ancone,
By fear, the chief questions himself.




Analysis:

les deux armées
effrayeur
s'en examine
Les Marches
Ancone


the two armies.
modern french frayeur, peur, fright, fear.
se pose des questions, s'interroge, questions himself, ponders over.
The Marches, région in the North-East of Italy on the Adriatic Sea.
Ancona, capital of that region.
Here, one could assume that the two armies [les deux armées] are adversaries, but the sentence rather goes in the sense of a movement towards, as, for example, the two armies were heading for... This implies a joint movement towards a goal, and therefore, I suggest the two armies are from the same group of armies.

Interpretation

The two armies [move forward] through the Marches of Ancona,
While the german general questions himself (about that move]

History

During the war, Ancona had become a home base for the allied armies that were fighting in the Marches. General Kesselring was chief of the german armies holding positions in that area.
Here, it's about the stratagem of general Alexander during the battle for the Gothic Line, when he had decided to attack this position from the mountains, alleged to be impassable. To this end, he used two armies:

Alexander's armies in the Marches
[P.508] August 1944. The offensive would be simultaneously launched by the two armies, [les deux armées] the main thrust being attributed to their contiguous wings. Using two corps of fresh troops, [the Canadian army corps and the 5th british corps] ... the 8th army would attack through the mountains [les Marches d'Ancone], and take upon itself the advance to the Po...
During that time and to divert their attention, the germans were led to believe that the major offensive would be launched in the vicinity of Ancone by the Polish and the Canadians:
[P.510] ...The Germans were led to believe in a considerable concentration of troops (a decoy) behind the Polish; the latter were to give that impression, by their own movements, helped in that by the circulation and activity of the liaison and transmissions detachments, as well as reconnaissance troops of the Canadian army corps and the 1st british armored division...
The stratagem of the allies succeeded and all this activity was reported to the german general. Kesselring's dilemna was the following: would the main attack of the allies come from the mountain, or would they concentrate in the region of Ancone? After pondering on the question, he concluded he must protect the region of Ancona:
[P.513] ...However, because of all those merchant ships and warships gathered in the Mediterranean prior to the landing of the allies about to occur in the south of France, Kesselring feared [par effrayeur] his own coasts were about to suffer an attack....[le chef s'en examine] Thus, he decided he had to deploy in depth his Adriatic troops... Great was his surprise when he learned that the allies were hurtling down the mountains at the rythm of 300 vehicles by the hour. But this ignorance manifested by the enemy could not subsist in the view of these clouds of dust and the noise made by the thousands of vehicles coming down the mountains from Ombria to the Marches.
[Translation - Les Canadiens en Italie Lt. Colonel G.W.L. Nicholson]




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