Joseph-François Poeymirau

Joseph-François Poeymirau (8 November 1869 – 22 February 1924) was a French general.

Joseph-François Poeymirau (1919)

Childhood

Poeymirau was born in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques on 8 November 1869 and was the son of André Adolphe Poeymirau, a businessman, and his wife Delphine Rocacher. He studied at the Collège Stanislas de Paris, then the Military School of Saint-Cyr Coetquidan before being accepted to the War College.

French conquest of Morocco

Poeymirau commanded 30,000 men and reported initial success in his 1920 expeditions.[1]

References
  1. "Spain's Moroccan Reverses". Current History. 14 (6): 1052. 1921. ISSN 2641-080X. JSTOR 45326261.


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