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Colonel De Villebois-Mareuil

Colonel De Villebois-Mareuil
Source : Archives Nauticapedia

Histoire

This bark was built in 1900 by Chantiers Nantais de Construction Maritime in Nantes.

Notes historiques

In 1927 this vessel was broken up

Propriétaires et capitaines

In 1900-1926 she was owned by Soc Gen.d'Armament (G. Belot Manager)

Signification du nom

George Henri Anne-Marie Victor count de Villebois-Mareuil or by his shortened name George de Villebois-Mareuil (22 March 1847, in Montaigu, Brittany, France – 6 April 1900, in Boshof, Orange Free State, South Africa) was a former colonel in the French infantry who fought and died on the side of the Boers during the Second Anglo-Boer War. He was the first of only two foreign volunteers to be given the rank of Major-General in the armed forces of the Boer Republics.

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