biography
| name: |
Sarrail, Maurice Paul Emmanuel
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pronunciation:
[sariy]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1856–1929)
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| biography:
| French soldier, born in Carcassonne, S France. In World War 1 he led the 3rd Army at the Battle of the Marne (1914), and from 1915 to 1917 commanded the Allied forces in the East (Salonica), where he deposed Constantine I of Greece. He was high commissioner in Syria (1924–5), but was recalled after the bombardment of Damascus during a rising. |
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