George Henri Anne-Marie Victor de Villebois-Mareuil

Who was George Henri Anne-Marie Victor de Villebois-Mareuil?

George Henri Anne-Marie Victor de Villebois-Mareuil was a Colonel in the French infantry, and a French Nationalist who fought and died on the side of the Boers during the Second Anglo-Boer War. He was the first of only two Boer foreign volunteers to be handed the grade of Major-General in the Boer Army. The other being his second in command Evgeni Maximov after the death of Villebois-Mareuil. He took part in Franco-Prussian War in 1871 and drove the Prussians back from Blois.