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Henri Gouraud

1867 - 1946

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Henri Gouraud (17 November 1867 - 16 September 1946) was a French army general. He played a central role in the colonization of French Africa and the Levant. During World War I, he fought in major battles such as those of the Argonne, the Dardanelles, and Champagne. An important figure in the aftermath of the Ottoman Empire, he served as High Commissioner of the French Republic in the Levant from 1919 to 1922, during which he led military campaigns in Cilicia and Syria. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henri Gouraud is the 760th most popular military personnel (up from 829th in 2019), the 2,038th most popular biography from France (up from 2,174th in 2019) and the 80th most popular French Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Henri Gouraud ranks 760 out of 2,058Before him are Ma Dai, Carmine Crocco, Julius von Payer, Pavel Sudoplatov, Giovanni Andrea Doria, and Dietrich von Saucken. After him are Marcantonio Colonna, Yasuji Okamura, Ion Mihai Pacepa, Wolfgang Lüth, Karol Świerczewski, and Erich Brandenberger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Henri Gouraud ranks 57Before him are Mikhail Eisenstein, Frederick Keeping, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Sundance Kid, Josep Puig i Cadafalch, and Henry L. Stimson. After him are Kristian Birkeland, Marcel Schwob, Jeanne Lanvin, Masaoka Shiki, Carl Laemmle, and Cy Young. Among people deceased in 1946, Henri Gouraud ranks 67Before him are Alfred Stieglitz, Duchess Jutta of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Per Albin Hansson, Louis Slotin, Henry Bergman, and Yōsuke Matsuoka. After him are Arthur Greiser, Karl Eberhard Schöngarth, Jenny-Wanda Barkmann, Wilhelm Souchon, Jeanne Lanvin, and Inayatullah Khan.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Gouraud ranks 2,038 out of 6,770Before him are Adalberon (947), Marguerite Gérard (1761), Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt (1773), François Faber (1887), François Lemoyne (1688), and Dominique Venner (1935). After him are Marie-Guillemine Benoist (1768), René Louiche Desfontaines (1750), Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux (1737), François Girardon (1628), François Coppée (1842), and Alain Connes (1947).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Henri Gouraud ranks 80Before him are Hubert Lyautey (1854), Henri de la Rochejaquelein (1772), Jules Brunet (1838), Billy Mitchell (1879), Heinz Harmel (1906), and Raoul Salan (1899). After him are Charles Huntziger (1880), Rudolf Schmundt (1896), Hans von Salmuth (1888), Barthélemy Catherine Joubert (1769), William Iron Arm (1010), and Thomas Robert Bugeaud (1784).