George Henri Anne-Marie Victor de Villebois-Mareuil [SEP] date of birth
George Henri Anne-Marie Victor de Villebois-Mareuil
George Henri Anne-Marie Victor count de Villebois-Mareuil or by his shortened name George de Villebois-Mareuil (22 March 1847, Montaigu, Brittany, France - 6 April 1900, Boshof, Orange Free State, South Africa) was a former colonel in the French infantry who fought and died on the side of the Boers during the Second Anglo-Boer War.
He was the first of only two foreign volunteers to be given the rank of Major-
General in the armed forces of the Boer Republics. The other being his second in command Evgeni Maximov (1849–1904) after the death of Villebois-Mareuil.
Earlier in his career Georges de Villebois-Mareuil took part in the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 and drove the Prussians back from Blois.
Early years.
George Henri Anne-Marie Victor count de Villebois-Mareuil was born approximately 30 km South East of Nantes. He was a soldier and author. 
He started his military education at the