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3 unusual facts about Octave Meynier


Jean-François Klobb

Klobb fell, wounded, still ordering Meynier not to return fire; but his words were truncated by a new salvo that killed Klobb and wounded his second, Octave Meynier, while Klobb's soldiers fled.

Octave Meynier

Only a few days later a mutiny among the troop brought to Voulet and Chanoine's death, and Meynier became mith Paul Joalland commander of the expedition, completing its main goal, the union of French West Africann possessions.

Octave Meynier was a French military officer, born on February 22, 1874 at Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche in France and died on May 31, 1961 at Algiers.



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