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Henri Gouraud
Henri Gouraud was a French general who served in West Africa, capturing Samori Ture in 1898 and conquering the Adrar of Mauritania in 1909, and later commanded at Gallipoli and on the Western Front. As French High Commissioner in the Levant from 1919 to 1923 he defeated Faisal's Arab Kingdom of Syria at Maysalun in 1920, proclaimed Greater Lebanon and divided Syria into the states of Damascus, Aleppo and others.
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