Colonial Medal
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The Colonial Medal was a French decoration created by the "loi de finances" of 26 July 1893 to reward "military services in the colonies, resulting from participation in military operations, in a colo
French Colonial Medal with multiple clasps
"Médaille Coloniale" certificate of 1894 for the participation in the 1881 French occupation of Tunisia of Military Doctor Jean-Baptiste Doué.
Henri Gouraud
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Henri Joseph Eugène Gouraud was a French army general. He played a central role in the colonization of French Africa and the Levant. During World War I, he fought in major battles such as those of the
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…Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque (bars, unknown campaigns) Henri Gouraud (Senegal and Sudan, Morocco, Mauretania and Adrar) Charles Mangin (Senegal and Sudan…
Autochrome portrait by Auguste Léon, 1919
Proclamation of the state of Greater Lebanon, Gouraud with Grand Mufti of Beirut Sheikh Mustafa Naja, and on his right is the Maronite Patriarch Elias Peter Hoayek.
General Gouraud crossing through al-Khandaq street on 13 September 1920, Aleppo
Autochrome of Gouraud in Syria by Frédéric Gadmer, 1921