On the afternoon of November 10, Gen. Charles-Auguste Noguès, the French commander in chief in Morocco, heard indirectly that the French authorities in Algiers, now personally headed by Darlan, had issued an order to stop fighting.
After Rome fell to the French in February 1798, Masséna was sent as an assistant to the French commander there.
Ten of the French, including Jumonville, were killed, one was wounded, and all but one (who escaped to warn the French commander at Fort Duquesne) of the rest were taken prisoner.
The French commander was courteous but adamant.
The French commander in chief, General Joseph Joffre, decided to risk a counterattack.
He was also the most successful French commander of the First Indochina War (1946 54).
One French commander said, "If the Islamists gain a foothold here, it will not be good.
(There is now a French commander of nato's Afghan occupation forces).
A British general, sent to concede defeat, tried surrendering to a French commander at George Washington's side.
Tonight, the French commander of NATO troops in that part of Kosovo said two of the men had been arrested.
That evening the French commander at Verdun, Gen. Joseph-Jacques-Césaire Joseph-Jacques-Césaire Joseph-Jacques-Césaire Joffre aside in favour of Gen. Philippe Péthen.
