About: Battle of Maysalun   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : dbkwik:resource/krD_GSPHhNL2IejCI7diCQ==, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

General Gouraud ordered the French 24th Division led by General Mariano Goybet to advance out of Beirut on Damascus. Some Maronite Lebanese reportedly fought on the French side, unwilling to join a Muslim-dominated Kingdom of Syria.[citation needed] Yusuf al-'Azma, Faisal's minister of war and chief of staff, ignored the King's surrender and led a small army to confront the French advance at Maysalun. He led a small force from Damascus, consisting of a few hundred regular soldiers from the newly formed army and some hastily-summoned citizen volunteers on what was essentially a suicide mission.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Battle of Maysalun
rdfs:comment
  • General Gouraud ordered the French 24th Division led by General Mariano Goybet to advance out of Beirut on Damascus. Some Maronite Lebanese reportedly fought on the French side, unwilling to join a Muslim-dominated Kingdom of Syria.[citation needed] Yusuf al-'Azma, Faisal's minister of war and chief of staff, ignored the King's surrender and led a small army to confront the French advance at Maysalun. He led a small force from Damascus, consisting of a few hundred regular soldiers from the newly formed army and some hastily-summoned citizen volunteers on what was essentially a suicide mission.
sameAs
Strength
  • 9000(xsd:integer)
  • around 3,000 men
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:military/pr...iPageUsesTemplate
Partof
  • the Franco-Syrian War
Date
  • 1920-07-23(xsd:date)
Commander
  • 22(xsd:integer)
  • Henri Gouraud
Caption
  • Syrian soldiers at Maysalun
  • Henri Gouraud on horseback inspecting his French troops at Maysalun
Casualties
  • 42(xsd:integer)
  • 400(xsd:integer)
Result
  • French victory
Image
  • 300(xsd:integer)
combatant
  • 22(xsd:integer)
  • France
Place
  • Maysalun Pass, Anti-Lebanon mountains
Conflict
  • Battle of Maysalun
  • معركة ميسلون
abstract
  • General Gouraud ordered the French 24th Division led by General Mariano Goybet to advance out of Beirut on Damascus. Some Maronite Lebanese reportedly fought on the French side, unwilling to join a Muslim-dominated Kingdom of Syria.[citation needed] Yusuf al-'Azma, Faisal's minister of war and chief of staff, ignored the King's surrender and led a small army to confront the French advance at Maysalun. He led a small force from Damascus, consisting of a few hundred regular soldiers from the newly formed army and some hastily-summoned citizen volunteers on what was essentially a suicide mission. The French forces under the command of General Goybet easily defeated the Syrian forces, and Yusuf al-'Azma was killed in the battle. After the battle, General Gouraud addressed General Goybet as follows: GENERAL ORDER No. 22 Aley, 24 July 1920 "The General is deeply happy to address his congratulations to General Goybet and his valiant troops: 415th of line, 2nd Algerian sharpshooters, 11th and 10th Senegalese sharpshooters, light-infantry-men of Africa, Moroccan trooper regiment, batteries of African groups, batteries of 155, 314, company of tanks, bombardment groups and squadrons who in the hard fight of 24 of July, have broken the resistance of the enemy who defied us for 8 months. "They have engraved a glorious page in the history of our country." - General Gouraud
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software