• Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne (7 November 1860 in Condé-en-Barrois, Meuse – 2 April 1936 in Paris) was a general of artillery and a specialist in military...
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    extremely irregular terrain of battlefields. The French colonel Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne considered armed cross-country vehicles such as the future tank...
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  • of Charles Estienne Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne (1860–1936), general of artillery and the creator of the French tank arm Georges Estienne (1896–1969)...
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    onwards by engineer Eugène Brillié, paralleling British development of tanks the same year. Colonel Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne in December 1915 began...
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    origins in the concept of a Char de Bataille conceived by General Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne in 1919, e.g. in his memorandum Mémoire sur les missions des...
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    had been used in the Allied war effort. The French colonel Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne articulated the vision of a cross-country armoured vehicle on...
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    in more-open terrain. On 23 August 1914 the French Colonel Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne, later a major proponent of tanks, declared, "Gentlemen, victory...
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    class corresponding to the new project. However, brigadier Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne, commander of the new tank force, the Assault Artillery, was...
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  • Chandra Pal, Indian academic and activist (d. 1932) 1860 – Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general and engineer (d. 1936) 1860 – Paul Peel, Canadian...
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    lead-up to the First World War Tricornot de Rose served under Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne to develop French army aviation and experimented with mounting...
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