Soldiers
- Jeanne d'Arc
- Chevalier Bayard
- François Achille Bazaine
- Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
- Georges Boulanger
- Thomas Robert Bugeaud
- François de Charette
- Louis II de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, known as le Grand Condé.
- Gaspard de Coligny
- François Darlan
- Louis-Nicolas Davout
- Bob Denard
- Alfred Dreyfus
- Charles François Dumouriez
- Ferdinand Foch
- Louis Franchet d'Espèrey
- Joseph Gallieni
- Maurice Gamelin
- Henri Gouraud
- Bertrand du Guesclin
- Joseph Joffre
- Edmond Jouhaud
- Jean-Baptiste Jourdan
- Alphonse Juin
- Marie-Pierre Kœnig
- Jacques de la Palice
- Charles Leclerc
- Jean Lannes
- Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
- Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque
- François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg
- Hubert Lyautey
- Patrice MacMahon
- Charles Mangin
- Claude Martin
- André Masséna
- Jacques Massu
- Louis-Joseph de Montcalm
- Simon de Montfort
- Philippe Morillon
- Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte
- Joachim Murat
- Michel Ney
- Robert Nivelle
- Philippe Pétain
- Comte de Rochambeau
- Raoul Salan
- Maurice Sarrail
- Nicolas Soult
- Louis Jules Trochu
- Henri de Turenne
- Étienne de Vignolles, called La Hire
- Claude Louis Hector de Villars
- Maxime Weygand
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Famous quotes containing the word soldiers:
“God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.”
—Elizabeth I (15331603)
“But that wasnt fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech and then interpolate them,
With the result that whenever you mention Old Testament soldiers to
people they say Oh yes, theyre the ones that a lot of wolves dressed up in gold and purple ate them.”
—Ogden Nash (19021971)
“I used to think of death ... like I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (17831842)