General leclerc biography
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LECLERC, Victor-Emmanuel
Fact file
Born in Pontoise, 17 March 1772.
Volunteer in the 2e bataillon de Seine-et-Oise, lieutenant 19 Oct., 1791
Became one of the Adjudants généraux for the Armée d’Italie in 1793
Became Chief of Staff for the Division de l’Est (La Poype) in the army sent against Toulon, 1793
Adjudant général, Chef de bataillon, on 17 December, 1793: this nomination on the battlefield was confirmed by a decree passed by the Convention on 24 March, 1794
Detailed to the Armée des Alpes, took part in the attack on Mont Cenis, June 1794
Joined the Armée d’Italie in March, 1796
At the Battle of Castiglione, 5 August, 1796
At the Battle of Rivoli, 14 January, 1797
Sent to Ravenna, 3 February, 1797
Present at the crossing of the Piave, 12 March, 1797
Brought to Paris the Leoben peace preliminaries and the standards captured from the enemy, April 1797
Général de brigade, 6 May, 1797
Provisory Chief of Staff for the Armée d’Italie, 14 Novemb
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Philippe Leclerc dem Hautecloque
Biography
Philippe dem Hautecloque was born on November 22, 1902 in Belloy-Saint-Léonard in the Somme. He moved very early towards a military career and prepares for Sainte-Geneviève the competition of the Saint-Cyr military academy that he joined in 1922, promoting “Metz and Strasbourg”, ranking at the end of his initial training fifth out of 344. He chose the Saumur cavalry school and finished it major.
He was transferred to Morocco where he participated in the Rif war and in 1929 took command of the 38th Goum. Instructor at Saint-Cyr in 1931, he injured han själv during an exercise on horseback which cost him to use a cane for life. In 1938, he joined the School of War which he once igen major a year later.
Staff captain of the 4th Infantry Division in May 1940, he was captured a first time and then flydde before resuming the fighting. A prisoner again in June 1940, he escapes and crosses all of France from north to south to go
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Philippe Leclerc
On the 22nd November 1902 in Belloy (Picardy) Philippe de Hauteclocque, the fifth of six children was born to the count Adrien and Marie-Thérèse Van der Cruisse de Waziers. Originally from Artois, his family, from a long line of nobility dating back to the XIIth century, participated in the crusades, served at Fontenoy, at Wagram and held office as town councillors. During his childhood spent in a rural and traditional environment, he learned exceptional hardiness and a passion for hunting, an ardent patriotism, and a Christian faith anchored in Roman Catholicism, reinforced through his education by the Jesuit fathers of Providence in Amiens. He pursued an army career at Saint-Cyrien in the "Metz-Strasbourg" division, and after a first posting in Germany, opted for a posting to Morocco, first as an instructor at the School for native officers of Dar El-Beïda, then at the head of a goum during the peacemaking operations amongst dissident tribes.
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