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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity(set)
Affiliation
Position
Citizenship(set)
Background(set)
Era
People of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era
People of the wider world
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François Christophe Kellermann François Christophe de Kellermann
General who commanded the French at Valmy, Marshal of the Empire
Military command · French First Republic state institutions
1735–1820
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Louis Joseph de Bourbon Louis Joseph de Bourbon, prince de Condé
Bourbon prince who commanded the émigré Army of Condé
Military command · Army of Condé
1736–1818
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Charles François Dumouriez Charles-François du Périer Dumouriez
French Revolutionary general and statesman who defected to Austria in 1793
Military command · French First Republic state institutions
1739–1823
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Charles-Philippe Ronsin Charles-Philippe Ronsin
Hébertist general who commanded the Parisian Revolutionary Army
Military command · French First Republic state institutions
1751–1794
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Lazare Carnot Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot
The mathematician who organized the army of the Revolution
Military command · French First Republic state institutions
1753–1823
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Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette
French general who fought in the revolutions of two continents
Military command · Feuillants
1757–1834
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André Masséna André Masséna
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars commander, Marshal of the Empire
Military command · Consulate and First Empire state institutions
1758–1817
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Jacques Cathelineau Jacques Cathelineau
First generalissimo of the Vendéan insurgency
Military command · Catholic and Royal Army (Vendée)
1759–1793
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Jean-Charles Pichegru Charles Pichegru
French Revolutionary Wars general, royalist conspirator
Military command · French First Republic state institutions
1761–1804
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Jean-Baptiste Jourdan Jean-Baptiste Jourdan
General of the Revolutionary Wars, victor of Fleurus and framer of the 1798 conscription law
Military command · French First Republic state institutions
1762–1833
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François de Charette François Athanase de Charette de la Contrie
Royalist commander who led guerrilla war in the Lower Vendée
Military command · Catholic and Royal Army (Vendée)
1763–1796
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Jean Victor Marie Moreau Jean Victor Marie Moreau
French Revolutionary general, victor of Hohenlinden
Military command · French First Republic state institutions
1763–1813
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Jean Joseph Amable Humbert Jean Joseph Amable Humbert
French revolutionary general, commander of the 1798 Irish expedition
Military command · French First Republic state institutions
1767–1823
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Louis Charles Antoine Desaix Louis Charles Antoine Desaix
French Revolutionary Wars general killed at Marengo
Military command · French First Republic state institutions
1768–1800
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Antoine Richepanse Antoine Richepanse
French Revolutionary Wars general and commander of the Guadeloupe expedition
Military command · French First Republic state institutions
1770–1802
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Henri de La Rochejaquelein Henri de La Rochejaquelein
Young noble officer elected generalissimo of the Vendéan army
Military command · Catholic and Royal Army (Vendée)
1772–1794
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Patrice de MacMahon Patrice de Mac Mahon
Marshal captured at Sedan who led the Versailles army against the Paris Commune and became the president of “Moral Order”
Military command · France state institutions
1808–1893
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Gustave Paul Cluseret Gustave Paul Cluseret
French soldier who served as the Paris Commune’s Delegate for War
Military command · France state institutions
1823–1900
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Louis Nathaniel Rossel Louis Rossel
French army officer who served as the Paris Commune’s war delegate
Military command · France state institutions
1844–1871
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Ferdinand Foch Ferdinand Foch
French marshal who as Allied supreme commander in 1918 led the counter-offensive and dictated the armistice
Military command · France state institutions
1851–1929
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Robert Nivelle Robert Nivelle
French commander-in-chief whose failed offensive of 1917 brought on the army mutinies and his dismissal
Military command · France state institutions
1856–1924
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Philippe Pétain Philippe Pétain
A marshal whose Verdun prestige ended in Vichy collaboration
Military command · France state institutions
1856–1951
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Maxime Weygand Maxime Weygand
From Foch's brilliant staff officer to a general of defeat and accommodation
Military command · France state institutions
1867–1965
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Maurice Gamelin Maurice Gamelin
A commander-in-chief caught between defensive doctrine and forward deployment
Military command · France state institutions
1872–1958
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Fernand Vix Fernand Vix
French officer who headed the Entente military mission in Budapest and delivered the Vix note in March 1919
Military command · France state institutions
1876–1941
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Robert Touchon Robert Touchon
A French general whose 1940 command exposed the tension between mountain-war expertise and an old command system
Military command · France state institutions
1878–1960
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Charles Delestraint Charles Delestraint
A tank-war innovator who became the Secret Army's first commander
Military command · France state institutions
1879–1945
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Charles Huntziger Charles Huntziger
A general who embodied the military case for defeat and armistice
Military command · France state institutions
1880–1941
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Aimé Doumenc Joseph Édouard Aimé Doumenc
Logistics, armor and the 1939 Moscow mission
Military command · France state institutions
1880–1948
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Jean de Lattre de Tassigny Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
The general who defied Vichy and led the Liberation Army
Military command · France state institutions
1889–1952
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Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu
Carmelite friar and Free French admiral whose Republic of Cochinchina as High Commissioner opened the road to war
Military command · France state institutions
1889–1964
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Henri Navarre Henri Navarre
Last commander of the French Far East Expeditionary Corps, who chose to fortify Điện Biên Phủ and met defeat there in 1954
Military command · France state institutions
1898–1983
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Raoul Salan Raoul Salan
French commander in the First Indochina War and leader of the OAS.
Military command · France state institutions
1899–1984
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Philippe François Marie Leclerc de Hauteclocque Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque
Free French armoured commander
Military command · France state institutions
1902–1947
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Christian de Castries Christian de Castries
French general who commanded the Điện Biên Phủ fortress in 1954 and was captured when it fell
Military command · France state institutions
1902–1991
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Henri Rol-Tanguy Henri Rol-Tanguy
Communist Resistance leader who directed the Paris uprising
Military command · France state institutions
1908–2002
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Pierre Félix Georges Pierre Georges
A communist pioneer of armed resistance to the Occupation
Military command · Francs-Tireurs et Partisans (FTP/FTPF)
1919–1944