Count Georges de Villebois-Mareuil (1847-1900; fr. Georges Henri Anne Marie Victor, comte de Villebois-Mareuil ) - Colonel of the French service, fencing general and war writer .
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 notes
- 3 Literature
- 4 References
Biography
Georges de Villebois-Maraille was born on March 22, 1847 in the city of Nantes. At the age of twenty, he graduated from the Sensory Special Military School [4] .
First he served in Kokhinhin, then participated in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870β71 [4] .
After graduating from high military school, he moved to the General Staff; took part in the Tunisian expedition [4] .
In 1895, having left the service, he devoted himself to lettering. In particular, he owns a work dedicated to the Russian Imperial Army: βThe Russian Army and its Chiefs β [4] .
In the fall of 1899, Villebois-Mareil volunteered for South Africa, where he took an active part in hostilities . However, his talents and energy did not find appropriate application, since the Boers stubbornly adhered to a passive, devoid of systematic way of action. Only after the capture of Blumfontein by the British army, he was appointed fencing general (becoming the first foreigner in history to receive this title; the second he received the Russian lieutenant colonel E. Ya. Maximov ) and the head of the European detachment. However, without waiting for the gathering of the entire detachment, with a party of only 80 French and Dutch people, he marched west from Kronstadt on March 11, intending to launch an attack on the British communications line south of Kimberley. But the conductor went astray, and on March 25 at Bosgof, as soon as the detachment became a bivouac , he was suddenly attacked by the troops of the 10th division of Lord Methuen. The battle ended with the complete destruction of the Franco-Dutch forces and the death of their commander [5] [4] .
In his hometown of Villebois-Mareil, on he erected a monument to him by the sculptor .
Notes
- β BNF ID : 2011 Open Data Platform .
- β LΓ©onore database - ministΓ¨re de la Culture .
- β Departmental archives of VendΓ©e
- β 1 2 3 4 5 Wilbois de Mareil // Military Encyclopedia : [in 18 vol.] / Ed. V.F. Novitsky [et al.]. - SPb. ; [ M. ]: Type. t-va I. D. Sytin , 1911-1915.
- β Villebois de Mareuil, Dix mois de campagne chez les Boers.
Literature
- Vinogradsky A. The Anglo-Boer War in South Africa.
- Annette Keaney . Le Lion et le sanglier. Deux hΓ©ros de la guerre des Boers: Paul Kruger et Georges de Villebois-Mareuil, Paris, Γditions France-Empire, 1991, 294 p.
- Roy Macnab . The French Colonel. De Villebois-Mareuil and the Boers, 1899-1900, Oxford, 1975, 270 pages.
Links
- Stephen M. Miller . Lord Methuen and the British army: failure and redemption in South Africa. Routledge