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Bogdan von Knorring (German: Gotthard Johann von Knorring; Russian: Богдан Фёдорович Кнорринг – Bogdan Fyodorovich Knorring; 1746 - 1825) was a Russian general of the infantry, of Baltic German decent.
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Barclay de Tolly
Prince Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (27 December [O.S. 16 December] 1761 – 26 May [O.S. 14 May] 1818), known in Russia as Mikhail Bogdanovich Barklay-de-Tolli (Cyrillic: Михаи́л Богда́нович Баркла́й-де-То́лли; translit. Michail Bogdanovič Barklaj-de-Tolli), was a Russian Field Marshal and Minister of War during Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and subsequent campaigns of the Russian army in Europe.France
France (pronounced /ˈfræns/ (
listen) or /ˈfrɑːns/;
French pronunciation (help·info): [fʁɑ̃s]), officially the French Republic (French: République française, pronounced: [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛz]), is a member state of the European Union located in its western region, with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents.[12] France is a unitary semi-presidential republic with its main ideals expressed in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.General
A general officer is an officer of very high military rank. The term or equivalent is used by nearly every country in the world. General can be used as a generic term for all grades of general officer, or it can specifically refer to a single rank that is simply called general.