George Henri Anne-Marie Victor de Villebois-Mareuil, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetGeorge Henri Anne-Marie Victor de Villebois-Mareuil
French soldier and writer
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Place of Birth: Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
About George Henri Anne-Marie Victor de Villebois-Mareuil
- George Henri Anne-Marie Victor count de Villebois-Mareuil or by his shortened name George de Villebois-Mareuil (22 March 1847, Montaigu, Brittany, France - 6 April 1900, Boshof, Orange Free State, South Africa) was a former colonel in the French infantry who fought and died on the side of the Boers during the Second Anglo-Boer War. He was the first of only two foreign volunteers to be given the rank of Major-General in the armed forces of the Boer Republics.
- The other being his second in command Yevgeny Maximov (1849–1904) after the death of Villebois-Mareuil. Earlier in his career Georges de Villebois-Mareuil took part in the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 and drove the Prussians back from Blois.
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