Henry Martin (general)

Henry Jules Jean Maurice Martin (1888-1984) was a French general. (His name is often wrongly written as "Henri," the more common spelling in French.)

In 1940 he commanded the African Infantry 87th Division (in the Sixth Army of General Robert-Auguste Touchon and the Seventh Army of General Aubert Frère) during the Battle of France on the Ailette, where he took an active part in the defense of the Aisne, then retreated to the Seine and the Loire. He was then at the head of the Marrakech Division and the 4th Moroccan Mountain Division before taking command of the 1st Corps, in which capacity he commanded French troops during the liberation of Corsica in September–October 1943 and of the island of Elba in June 1944. Between 1944 and 1946, he was commander of the 19th Corps in Algeria, notably during the Sétif massacres.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Fabian Klose, Human Rights in the Shadow of Colonial Violence: The Wars of Independence in Kenya and Algeria (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013; ISBN 0812244958), p. 82: "The French high commander in Algeria, General Henry Martin, received the following instructions from de Gaulle on 14 August 1944: 'We must prevent North Africa from slipping through our fingers while we are liberating France.' The tragic was the bloody suppression of the Sétif unrest in May 1945."
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