Question: Who led the 9th Army Corps to victory in the Third Battle of Picardy 

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4th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment (Union): The 4th Regiment Arkansas Volunteer Cavalry was organized in 1863 at Little Rock December.  Attached to Post of Little Rock, Arkansas, 7th Army Corps, Department of Arkansas, to May, 1864.  3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 7th Army Corps, Department of Arkansas, to September, 1864.  2nd Brigade, Cavalry Division, 7th Army Corps, to February, 1865.  Unassigned, 7th Army Corps, to March, 1865.  Cavalry Brigade, Little Rock, Arkansas, 7th Corps, to June, 1865.

5th Army Corps (Italy): The 5th Army Corps was one of three corps the Italian Army fielded during the Cold War.  Based in the regions of Veneto and Friuli-Venezia-Giulia the corps was the army's main combat force.  The 5th Army Corps was arrayed close to the Yugoslavian border and tasked with meeting any Warsaw Pact forces that crossed the border.  On the left flank of the corps the 4th Alpine Army Corps was tasked with blocking the Alpine passes and in the rear of the corps the 3rd Army Corps served as operational reserve.  After the end of the Cold War the corps was reduced in size and on 1 October 1997 it became the 1st Defence Forces Command (COMFOD 1°).  In 2013 the COMFOD 1° was disbanded and its function and brigades taken over by the 20th Infantry Division Friuli in Florence.

Primorsky Military District: The Primorsky (Maritime Provinces) Military District was formed on September 30, 1945 on the territory of Primorsky Krai (territory of the former Ussuri Oblast), from HQ 1st Far East Front.  Under its control also were the troops stationed on the territory of North Korea (25th Army) and the Kwantung Peninsula (39th Army).  The district headquarters was in the city of Voroshilov (Ussuriisk).  Troops stationed in Primorsky Krai were the 5th and 35th Armies.  Air support was provided by the 9th Air Army.  The 35th Army, the 17th Rifle Corps and the 105th, 187th, 190th, 231st, 235th, 335th, 345th, 363rd, 365th and 366th Rifle Divisions were disbanded.  The 5th Army's two tank divisions, the 2nd and 3rd, were the only Soviet tank divisions in the Far East.  The 25th Army's 39th and 88th Rifle Corps were disbanded in August 1946.  Also during the summer of 1946, 39th Army's 91st Guards, 252nd, 338th and 358th Rifle Divisions were converted into the 4th, 25th and 26th Guards Machine Gun Artillery Brigades.  In 1947, these became the 25th Guards Machine Gun Artillery Division.  39th Army's 113th Rifle Corps disbanded in January 1947.  25th Army pulled out of North Korea in 1948 and was stationed in southern Primorsky Krai on Sino-North Korean border and on the coast of the Peter the Great Gulf.  By 1948, the army only included the 10th Mechanized and 40th Rifle Divisions, as its other units had all disbanded before 1948.

28th Group Army: The 28th Group Army was an army corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army that existed from 1949 to 1998.  From 1952 to 1971, the 28th Army was based in Putian, Fujian and belonged to the Fujian Military Region.  From 1971 to 1998, this army corps belonged to the Beijing Military Region and was based in Shanxi Province, initially in Houma and then in Datong.  At the time of its dissolution in 1998, the 28th Army was composed of the 82nd, 83rd and 205th Infantry Divisions, the 7th Armored Division, an artillery brigade, an anti-aircraft brigade, an engineer regiment, a communication regiment and a reconnaissance battalion.  The army corps’ unit ID number was 51366.

3rd Army Corps (Italy): The 3rd Army Corps was one of three corps the Italian Army fielded during the Cold War.  Based in the regions of Lombardy and Piemont the corps was the army's operational reserve, while the 4th Alpine Army Corps and the 5th Army Corps, both based in the North East of Italy, were the army's front-line units.  After the end of the Cold War the corps was reduced in size and on 1 December 2000 it ceded its last brigades to the 1st Defence Forces Command (COMFOD 1°).  The personnel of the 3rd Army Corps was used to raise the NATO Rapid Deployable Italian Corps in January 2001.

Western Operational Command (Belarus): The Western Operational Command traces its lineage back to the Soviet 28th Army.  In July 1945, the 28th Army headquarters was relocated to Grodno.  By 1988, the army was composed of the 6th Guards Tank Division, 28th Tank Division, 50th Guards Motor Rifle Division and the 514th Territorial Training Center.  On 20 March 1992, the army was taken over by Belarus.  In 1993, the 28th Army was downsized to become the 28th Army Corps.  In 1994, the 50th Division became a separate mechanized brigade, and was further reduced to a storage base in 2001, then finally disbanded in 2006.  The Western Operational Command was created in December 2001 from the 28th Army Corps.  It participated in the exercises "Neman-2001", "Berezina-2002", "Chistoye Nebo-2003", "Shchit Otechestva-2004", "Shchit Soyuza-2006", "Zapad-2009", "Shchit Soyuza-2011" and the joint strategic exercises with Russian military units "Zapad-2013".  In 2015, Colonel Viktor Hrenin (former deputy commander of the command) became the command's head and Colonel Oleg Melnikov was appointed chief of staff of the command.

Noël Garnier-Duplessix: General Noël Marie Amédée Garnier-Duplessix (sometimes Duplessis) was a French army officer.  Whilst still a colonel he commanded the 2nd Infantry Division in the Allied victory at the First Battle of the Marne before seeing service in the Zaian War in the French protectorate of Morocco.  Garnier-Duplessix returned to France in October 1916 and received command of the 37th Infantry Division for the 15 December offensive of the Battle of Verdun and the Nivelle Offensive of April 1917.  He received command of the 9th Army Corps in June 1918 and led that unit to victory in the August Battle of Amiens and the autumn Meuse-Argonne Offensive.  After the war he was posted to Cilicia in the Franco-Turkish War of 1920-1 where he argued against early withdrawal of troops following the March 1921 Cilicia Peace Treaty.

Battle of Brody (1941): The Battle of Brody (other names in use include Battle of Dubna, Battle of Dubno, Battle of Rovne, Battle of Rovne-Brody) was a tank battle fought between the 1st Panzer Group's III Army Corps and XLVIII Army Corps (Motorized) and five mechanized corps of the Soviet 5th Army and 6th Army in the triangle formed by the towns Dubno, Lutsk, and Brody between 23 and 30 June 1941.  It is known in Soviet historiography as a part of the "border defensive battles".  Although the Red Army formations inflicted heavy losses on the German forces, they were outmanoeuvred and suffered enormous losses in tanks.  Poor Soviet logistics, German air supremacy as well as a total breakdown in Red Army command and control ensured victory for the Wehrmacht despite overwhelming Red Army numerical and technological superiority.

Action of 22 August 1917: The Action of 22 August 1917, took place in the First World War, on the Western Front during the Third Battle of Ypres in the Ypres Salient, between the Fifth Army of the British Expeditionary Force and the German 4th Army.  During the Battle of Langemarck (1917) (16–18 August), the British had advanced north of the village but had been defeated further south and failed to capture the "Wilhelmstellung" , the third German defensive position.  At a conference with the Fifth Army corps commanders on 17 August, Gough arranged for local attacks to gain jumping-off positions for a general attack on 25 August.  At the Action of the Cockcroft on 19 August, XVIII Corps assisted by the 1st Tank Brigade, had captured five German fortified farms and strongpoints for only 27–28 casualties.

Battle of Amiens (1918): The Battle of Amiens, also known as the Third Battle of Picardy (French: "3ème Bataille de Picardie" ), was the opening phase of the Allied offensive which began on 8 August 1918, later known as the Hundred Days Offensive, that ultimately led to the end of the First World War.  Allied forces advanced over 11 km on the first day, one of the greatest advances of the war, with Henry Rawlinson's British Fourth Army playing the decisive role.  The battle is also notable for its effects on both sides' morale and the large number of surrendering German forces.  This led Erich Ludendorff to describe the first day of the battle as "the black day of the German Army".  Amiens was one of the first major battles involving armoured warfare and marked the end of trench warfare on the Western Front; fighting becoming mobile once again until the armistice was signed on 11 November 1918.

Supporting paragraphs: Noël Garnier-Duplessix Battle of Amiens (1918)
Answer: Noël Marie Amédée Garnier-Duplessix