Gouraud, Henri, 1867-1946

LC control no.	no 94008586
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Gouraud, Henri, 1867-1946 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Gouraud, Henri, b. 1867 Gouraud, Henry Joseph Eugène, 1867-1946
Associated country	France
Associated place	Mali French Sudan Mauritania Morocco Niger Chad Syria Lebanon
Birth date	1867-11-17
Death date	1946-09-16
Place of birth	Paris (France)
Place of death	Paris (France)
Affiliation	France. Armée France. Armée. Armée, 4e
Profession or occupation	Generals Armed Forces--Officers Colonial administrators
Found in	Gouraud, P. Le Général Henri Gouraud au Liban et en Syrie, 1919-1923, 1993: t.p. (Henri Gouraud) p. 37 (52 yrs old in 1919) Index bibliographique français, 1993 p. 328 (Gouraud, Henry Joseph Eugène, b. 1867) Wikipedia WWW site, April 18, 2013 (Henri Gouraud; Henri Joseph Eugène Gouraud; b. November 17, 1867, Paris; d. September 16, 1946; French general best known for his leadership of the French Fourth Army at the end of World War I) Wikipedia, May 17, 2024 (Henri Gouraud; assigned in 1894 to French Sudan; in 1898 he was ordered to head a unit fighting Samori; on 29 September 1898 Gouraud's unit stumbled upon Samori's encampment and captured him; thanks to patronage of the "parti colonial" he pursued a career across French Africa for the next 15 years, posted in Niger, Chad and Mauritania; promoted in 1907 to colonel and commissaire du Gouvernement général of Mauritania; in 1911 after attending the centre des Hautes études militaires in France, he was stationed in Morocco, where he was promoted to général de brigade, serving under Lyautey; placed in command of the Fez military region, and in 1914-1915 was in command of all French colonial troops in western Morocco; in mid-1915 was commander of the French Expeditionary Corps in the Dardanelles campaign; wounded on 30 June, lost his right arm; commanded the Fourth Army on the Western Front between late 1915 and the end of the War; government representative and commander of the Frewnch Army of the Levant 1919-1922; as commander of French forces during the Franco-Turkish War, he presided over creation of the French Mandates in Syria and Lebanon; on 23 July 1920 his troops occupied Damascus and defeated forces of the Syrian Revolution; became French High Commissioner in Syria and Lebanon, effective head of colonial government there; returned to France in 1923, Military Governor of Paris 1923-1937 and served also on the Supreme Allied War Council 1927 until his retirement in 1937; died in Paris)