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With help from the Resistance, the Allies also succeeded in slipping French General Henri Giraud out of Vichy France on HMS Seraph, intending to offer him the post of commander in chief of French forces in North Africa after the invasion.

However, Giraud would take no position lower than commander in chief of all the invading forces, a job already given to Eisenhower.

When he was refused, he decided to remain " a spectator in this affair ".