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Thomas-Alexandre Dumas was the highest-ranked person of color of all time in a European army. General-in-Chief of the French Army of the Alps he get the nicknames "the Horatius Cocles of the Tyrol" by Napoleon and the "Schwarzer Teufel" (Black Devil) by Austrian troops during the Second Italian Campaign.
French Army generals of World War I (110 P) ... Pages in category "French generals" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 947 total.
This list includes the general officers in the French service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. From 1789 to 1815, their number exceeded 2,000. From 1789 to 1815, their number exceeded 2,000.
Pages in category "French Army generals of World War II" The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Chief of the Army Staff (French: Chef d'état-major de l'armée de terre, [a] CEMAT) [2] is the military head of the French Army. [3] The chief directs the army staff and acts as the principal advisor to the Chief of the Defence Staff on subjects concerning the Army. [ 4 ]
Army general Alphonse Juin: 25 January 1951: 19 August 1953: 2 years, 206 days Army: René Pleven [9] - 3 Army general Paul Ély: 19 August 1953: 4 June 1954: 289 days Army: René Pleven Marie-Pierre Kœnig [10] [11] René Coty: 4 Army general Augustin Guillaume: 4 June 1954: 2 March 1956: 1 year, 272 days Army: Marie-Pierre Kœnig Emmanuel ...
Pages in category "French Army generals of World War I" The following 110 pages are in this category, out of 110 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The French Armed Forces have also played a leading role in the ongoing UN peacekeeping mission along the Lebanon-Israel border as part of the cease-fire agreement that brought the 2006 Lebanon War to an end. Currently, France has 2,000 army personnel deployed along the border, including infantry, armour, artillery and air defence.