Intelligent, dedicated, and a natural leader; these are a few ways of describing General Charles de Gaulle. Fueled by patriotism, he stressed the importance of the Resistance immediately after the official surrender of France. Yet, he still remains unknown to a vast majority of the public.
Charles de Gaulle was born on 22 November, 1890 in Lille to a Catholic, upper-middle class family. His father was both a literature and philosophy professor, making it easy to understand why Charles de Gaulle was well-educated, even as a child. His family members tended to be historians, writers, and teachers; However, instead of following tradition, he began showing an interest in the military. De Gaulle chose to pursue his interest by joining the famous Military school, Saint-Cyr, in 1909. After completing his education, he joined the 33rd Infantry Regiment that was commanded by Colonel Philippe Pétain. He served as a lieutenant at the start of his career.
De Gaulle was a courageous and hardworking soldier, earning him a promotion to captain early on. In the first World War, he fought at the l...
Sajer’s depiction of professionalism in the Wehrmacht is perhaps the most likely place where mainstream thought concerning war comports with its actual practice. Sajer notes that even in the twilight of World War II when his unit,
“…the most important result was that it awakened in us a strong, practical sense of esprit de corps, which in the field developed into the finest thing that arose out of the war – comradeship.” (p23)
General George Smith Patton was a great American leader. His victories for America in Mexico, in World War One, and in World War Two proved his amazing leadership skills to the world. His bold, new tactics in France during World War Two are the basis of the modern military. Throughout his career, General Patton earned the respect of his men, his superiors, and the enemy. General George Smith Patton's leadership and tactics were the best of any Allied general of World War Two.
The Marquis de Lafayette is best remembered for the part he played in the American War of Independence. He contributed in helping the Americans gain free control over the colonies by breaking away from British home rule. For sixty years he fought with consistency and insight for political ideals and social reforms that have dominated the history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Hence, Lafayette can be attributed to the spreading of liberty and freedom throughout America and France. Therefore, he is viewed as a symbol of liberalism in a once absolutist world.
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He was born on September 6, 1757, in Chavaniac, France to a prestige’s military family. By the age of twelve he was a very rich orphan. Life moved at a very fast pace in the 1700’s and Marquis de Lafayette found himself joining the royal army at the age of fourteen. Then at the age of sixteen he allied himself to one of one of the richest families in France by marring fourteen year old Marie Adrienne Francoise de Noailles. Her family was also closely related to the king.
which he served as a member of the French army. After the war was finished, he
...ig concepts, such as equality before the law, but he also did what would benefit his country. It is important to understand that since France had just exited a revolution, it was pretty fragile; one big mistake and France might have ended up in another one. Napoleon was not only a child of both the French Revolution and the Enlightenment, he was also a very intelligent person. His cunning and his wits led him to be one of the greatest, if not the greatest enlightened despot of all time.
leader. He won the hearts of people because he could relate to them and their
...arly successes and his military brilliance classifies him as a hero in this sense. His political reign was also one of debate. Although he awarded many rights, he challenged them with other restrictions. Overall, France was stable following the horrid Reign of Terror but it also awarded more rights than in the old regime. Finally, the social aspect of France could prove Bonaparte to be either heroic or tyrannical as well. Many social changes transgressed during his reign. For instance, there was an increase in education and an end to feudalism, however Napoleon ruled the imperial catechism and was emperor for life. Overall the social changes were an improvement from the old regime, therefore classifying his as a hero for his time period. Overall, Napoleon was a hero in all three aspects of French life, although there were many aspects which were tyrannical as well.
Degas served in the artillery division of the French National Guard during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. Upon his return, he worked on even more ambitious studies of groups, often in motion, in both indoor and outdoor settings.
De Gaulle's foreign policy was possibly one of his most controversial legacies. He returned to power in 1958 with the determination to elevate France to a prominent international role. De Gaulle’s ultimate goal was to re-establish France’s standing as a first rate power that in the words of one historian, exemplified “independence and grandeur.” In his war memoirs, de Gaulle presented ‘une certain idée de la France’, it was his belief that France had a great destiny to fulfil: ‘All my life, I have thought of France in a certain way … France is not really herself unless in the front rank … Only vast enterprises are capable of counterbalancing the ferments of dispersal which are inherent in her people … In short, to my mind, France cannot be France without greatness’. This vision was the foundation of his foreign and defence policies.
Francisco Franco was born in 1892 in Ferrol Spain. The father of Francisco Franco was a officer in the Spanish Naval Administrative Corps and his mother was conservative in the upper middle class and a Roman Catholic. The previous 4 generations of Franco’s family and his older brother were also naval officers. Franco was destined to follow that path. Due to reduced admissions to the Naval Academy Franco was forced to enlist in the army. Franco was just a mere 14 years old when he entered the Infantry Academy in 1907. He then graduated three years later and volunteered for active duty in the Spanish Morocco campaigns and was stationed there in 1912.
I believe that there are three main character traits that define a good leader; their ability to move a nation with their speeches, their ability to think about and plan for the future of their people and nation, and their ability to be able to command the nation 's forces correctly. All good and well defining character traits that I believe that Adolf Hitler possessed when he came to power in Germany during January 1933.