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Maurice Duval
Marie Victor Charles Maurice Duval (1869–1958) was a French Brigadier General and aviator of World War I. He was one of the main organizers of the ''Armée de l'Air'' and was a Commander of the Legion of Honour. Military education and training Maurice was born on June 5, 1869, at Bayonne as the son of General Léon Duval who commanded the 77th Infantry Regiment (France), 77th Infantry Regiment and Louise Marie Elisabeth Mathilde (née de Leigonye). He attended the Saint-Joseph of Reims with a bachelor's degree in arts and sciences. After that, Duval enrolled in the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr on October 25, 1888, after passing the entrance exams, ranking 183 out of 450. He was promoted to Corporal on August 20, 1889, and to Sergeant on October 1, 1889, before graduating as part of the Class of 1889. Upon graduating from the academy, he gained his commission of Second Lieutenant within the 27th Infantry Regiment (France), 27th Infantry Regiment October 1, 1890, but w ...
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Bayonne
Bayonne () is a city in southwestern France near the France–Spain border, Spanish border. It is a communes of France, commune and one of two subprefectures in France, subprefectures in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques departments of France, department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine regions of France, region. Bayonne is located at the confluence of the Nive and Adour Rivers, in the northern part of the cultural region of the Basque Country (greater region), Basque Country. It is the seat of the Communauté d'agglomération du Pays Basque which roughly encompasses the western half of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, including the coastal city of Biarritz. The area also constitutes the southern part of Gascony, where the Aquitaine Basin joins the beginning of the Pre-Pyrenees. Together with nearby Anglet, Biarritz, Saint-Jean-de-Luz and several smaller communes, Bayonne forms an urban area with 273,137 inhabitants in the 2018 census, 51,411 of whom lived in the commune of Bayonne proper.
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122nd Infantry Regiment (France)
1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sports, where it commonly denotes the first, leading, or top thing in a group. 1 is the unit of counting or measurement, a determiner for singular nouns, and a gender-neutral pronoun. Historically, the representation of 1 evolved from ancient Sumerian and Babylonian symbols to the modern Arabic numeral. In mathematics, 1 is the multiplicative identity, meaning that any number multiplied by 1 equals the same number. 1 is by convention not considered a prime number. In digital technology, 1 represents the "on" state in binary code, the foundation of computing. Philosophically, 1 symbolizes the ultimate reality or source of existence in various traditions. In mathematics The number 1 is the first natural number after 0. Each natural number, ...
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Georges Picquart
Marie-Georges Picquart (6 September 1854 – 19 January 1914) was a French Army officer and Minister of War. He is best known for his role in the Dreyfus affair, in which he played a key role in uncovering the real culprit. Early career Picquart was born in Strasbourg. He began his military career in 1872, graduating from the ''École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr'' as fifth in his year. Picquart served as an infantry officer in France before undertaking staff duties in Indochina. He saw service with the 4th Zouaves in Algeria as well as with several regiments of line infantry and '' chasseurs à pied'' (light infantry) in Metropolitan France. He subsequently studied at the General Staff Academy (''École d'état-major'') where he was second in his class, after which he became a lecturer at the War Academy (''École supérieure de guerre''). One of his students at the latter institute was Alfred Dreyfus. Picquart and the Dreyfus affair Picquart was then appointed to the G ...
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Imperial Japanese Army
The Imperial Japanese Army (IJA; , ''Dai-Nippon Teikoku Rikugun'', "Army of the Greater Japanese Empire") was the principal ground force of the Empire of Japan from 1871 to 1945. It played a central role in Japan’s rapid modernization during the Meiji period, fought in numerous conflicts including the First Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, World War I, the Second Sino-Japanese War, and World War II, and became a dominant force in Japanese politics. Initially formed from domain armies after the Meiji Restoration, it evolved into a powerful modern military influenced by French and German models. The IJA was responsible for several overseas military campaigns, including the invasion of Manchuria, involvement in the Boxer Rebellion, and fighting across the Asia-Pacific during the Pacific War. Notorious for committing widespread Japanese war crimes, war crimes, the army was dissolved after Japan's surrender in 1945, and its functions were succeeded by the Japan Ground Self-D ...
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Lille
Lille (, ; ; ; ; ) is a city in the northern part of France, within French Flanders. Positioned along the Deûle river, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Nord (French department), Nord Departments of France, department, and the main city of the Métropole Européenne de Lille, European Metropolis of Lille. The city of Lille proper had a population of 236,234 in 2020 within its small municipal territory of , but together with its French suburbs and exurbs the Lille metropolitan area (French part only), which extends over , had a population of 1,515,061 that same year (January 2020 census), the fourth most populated in France after Paris, Lyon, and Marseille. The city of Lille and 94 suburban French municipalities have formed since 2015 the Métropole Européenne de Lille, European Metropolis of Lille, an Indirect election, indirectly elected Métropole, metropolitan ...
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Eugène Étienne
Eugène Etienne (; 15 December 1844 – 13 May 1921) was a French politician who was a deputy from 1881 to 1919, Undersecretary of Colonies in 1887 and again from 1889 to 1892, Minister of War in 1913, and a Senator from 1920 until his death. He was known as a defender of French Algeria and a promoter of colonial expansion. Life Etienne was born in Oran, French Algeria. He was employed at the Messageries Maritimes and supported Gambetta in his election of 1869, even before the fall of the Second Empire. He was close to Émile Bouchet, a radical deputy. In 1878 he was appointed inspector of railways. In 1879, he founded a law firm with Émile Bouchet and Jules Blancsubé. He was a Member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1881 to 1919 and a Senator from 1920 to 1921. Due to a combination of his upbringing in Algeria, his mentorship by Gambetta and his own business interests, Etienne would be a committed empire builder, and during this time, he would be appointed undersecretary ...
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83rd Brigade (France)
83rd Brigade may refer to: * 83rd Guards Air Assault Brigade (Russia) * 83rd Mixed Brigade (Spain) * 83rd Brigade (United Kingdom) See also * 83rd Division (other) * 83rd Regiment (other) 83rd Regiment or 83rd Infantry Regiment may refer to: * Royal Irish Regiment (1992), a unit of the British Army which carries on the lineage of the 83rd Ulster Defense Regiment * 83rd Regiment of Foot (other), several units of the Britis ...
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68th Infantry Regiment (France)
68th Regiment or 68th Infantry Regiment may refer to: * 68th (Durham) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry), an infantry unit of the British Army * 68th Armor Regiment, an armoured unit of the US Army * 68th Armoured Regiment (India), a armoured unit of the Indian Army ;American Civil War * 68th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment, a unit of the Union (Northern) Army * 68th Indiana Infantry Regiment, a unit of the Union (Northern) Army * 68th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, a unit of the Union (Northern) Army * 68th Ohio Infantry, a unit of the Union (Northern) Army * 68th Pennsylvania Infantry, a unit of the Union (Northern) Army See also * 68th Division (other) In military terms, 68th Division or 68th Infantry Division may refer to: * 68th Division (1st Formation)(People's Republic of China), 1949–1952 * 68th Infantry Division (France) * 68th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) * 68th Division (Imperial J ...
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6th Army Corps (France)
Sixth is the ordinal form of the number six. * The Sixth Amendment, to the U.S. Constitution * A keg of beer, equal to 5 U.S. gallons or barrel * The fraction Music * Sixth interval (music)s: ** major sixth, a musical interval ** minor sixth, a musical interval ** diminished sixth, an interval produced by narrowing a minor sixth by a chromatic semitone ** augmented sixth, an interval produced by widening a major sixth by a chromatic semitone * Sixth chord, two different kinds of chord * Submediant, sixth degree of the diatonic scale * Landini sixth, a type of cadence * Sixth (interval) Other uses * ''The Sixth'' (1981 film), a Soviet film directed by Samvel Gasparov * ''The Sixth'' (2024 film), an American documentary film directed by Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine * The 6ths, a band created by Stephin Merritt * LaSexta La Sexta (; ; stylised as laSexta) is a privately owned Spanish free-to-air television channel that was founded on 18 March 2001 as Beca TV and began br ...
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15th Infantry Regiment (France)
15th Regiment or 15th Infantry Regiment may refer to: * 15th Field Artillery Regiment (Canada) * 15th Infantry Regiment (South Korea) * 15th Regiment of Foot, United Kingdom * 15th Infantry Regiment (United States) * 15th Infantry Regiment (USAFIP-NL), part of United States Army Forces in the Philippines – Northern Luzon * 15th New York National Guard Regiment, United States * 15th Poznań Uhlan Regiment, Poland * 15th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment, Russia American Revolutionary War regiments * 15th Continental Regiment * 15th Massachusetts Regiment * 15th Virginia Regiment American Civil War regiments Confederate (Southern) Army regiments * 15th South Carolina Infantry Regiment * 15th Alabama Infantry Regiment Union (Northern) Army regiments * 15th Connecticut Infantry Regiment * 15th Illinois Infantry Regiment * 15th Illinois Cavalry Regiment * 15th Iowa Infantry Regiment * 15th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment * 15th West Virginia Infantry Regiment * 15th Wisconsin I ...
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Camille Krantz
Camille Krantz (24 August 1848 – 30 April 1924) was a French politician. He was Minister of Public Works from 1898 to 1899 and Minister of War from May to June 1899. His tenure at the Ministry of War coincided with the peak of the Dreyfus affair, and was considered an anti-Dreyfusard. He was a cousin of Jules François Émile Krantz Jules François Émile Krantz (29 December 1821 in Givet – 25 February 1914 near Toulon) was a French naval officer and politician. In Vietnamese royal records, he was referred as ''Ca Răng'' (哥𪘵). Life He left the École navale in 1837 .... References * https://www2.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche/(num_dept)/4153 Further reading * {{DEFAULTSORT:Krantz, Camille 1848 births 1924 deaths Ministers of war and national defence of France Ministers of public works of France ...
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