Marie-Eugène Debeney
Military Person
1864 – 1943
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Who was Marie-Eugène Debeney?
Marie-Eugène Debeney was a French Army general. He commanded the large First Army which, fighting alongside British Empire forces, played an important role in the mobile fighting of the second half of 1918, including at the Battle of Amiens and the Storming of the Hindenburg Line.
He later served an important term as Chief of the General Staff of the French Army in the 1920s.
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- Born
- May 5, 1864
Bourg-en-Bresse - Nationality
- France
- Education
- Ecole Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr
- Died
- Nov 6, 1943
Bourg-en-Bresse
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on July 23, 2013
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