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Maurice Janin | |
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Birth name | Pierre Thiébaut Charles Maurice Janin |
Nickname(s) | The general without honour |
Born | 7th arrondissement of Paris, France | 19 October 1862
Died | 28 April 1946 Saint-Sébastien, Isère, France | (aged 83)
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Rank | Divisional general |
Battles/wars | First World War Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War |
Awards | Order of Lāčplēsis, 2nd class |
Alma mater | École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr |
Pierre-Thiébaut-Charles-Maurice Janin (19 October 1862 – 28 April 1946) was a French general (from April 20, 1916) and military commander who was the chief of the Allied military mission in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. He is known for his betrayal of the Russian Supreme Leader Alexander Kolchak by giving him to the Soviet revolutionary committee to be executed in Irkutsk.
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