* 1808 – Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.

* August 21 – Battle of Vimiero: British troops under Duke of Wellington defeat the French under General Junot.

In 1807 Portugal refused Napoleon Bonaparte's demand to accede to the Continental System of embargo against the United Kingdom ; a French invasion under General Junot followed, and Lisbon was captured on 8 December 1807.

Unlike the Spanish colonies, the Brazilian independence came as a indirect consequence of the Napolionioc Invasions to Portugal-French invasion under General Junot led to the capture of Lisbon on 8 December 1807.

General Jean-Andoche Junot led the Westphalians to join the attack and again captured Utiza, which however was set on fire by the departing Russians.

In the Battle of Vimeiro ( August 21, 1808 ) the British under General Arthur Wellesley defeated the French under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro (), near Lisbon, Portugal during the Peninsular War.

Four days after the Battle of Roliça, the army of Wellesley ( later known as the Duke of Wellington ) was attacked by a French army under General Junot near the village of Vimeiro.

The refusal of the Portuguese government to join the Continental Blockade against Britain culminated in the 1807 Franco-Spanish invasion led by General Junot.

The French were under the command of General Henri François, Comte Delaborde These troops were sent by Junot to harass and hold the British while he brought his larger army into position to oppose the Anglo-Portuguese forces.

In 1808 Napoleonic troops under General Junot sacked the city and massacred the inhabitants.

During the invasion of Portugal by Napoleonic troops in 1807, the citadel of Cascais was occupied by the French, with General Junot staying some time in the village.

In November 1807, after the refusal of Prince Regent John of Portugal to join the Continental System, Napoleon sent an army into Spain under General Jean-Andoche Junot with the aim of invading Portugal ( as well as the secret task of being the vanguard for the eventual French occupation of Spain ).

On 17 October 1807, 24, 000 French troops under General Junot crossed the Pyrenees with Spanish cooperation and headed towards Portugal to enforce Napoleon's Continental System.

In Saxony, a joint force of Austrians and Brunswickers under the command of General Kienmayer was far more successful, defeating a corps under the command of General Junot at the Battle of Gefrees.

General Junot's force was close to the battlefield and was urged to attack the Russians by Murat, but Junot did nothing and the opportunity for a decisive victory passed.

In 1807, after the Portuguese government's refusal to participate in the Continental System, French troops under General Junot invaded Portugal, taking Lisbon.

In November 1807, General Jean-Andoche Junot invaded Portugal in an attempt to expand Napoleon's continental empire.

Burrard stopped Wellesley's pursuit of General Jean-Andoche Junot after Vimeiro.

A popular print of General Junot, 19th century.

A few minutes after midnight in the early hour of 31 July, warned by General Gresseau that Parisians were scheming to attack the residence, Charles X decided to leave Saint-Cloud and seek refuge in Versailles with his family, and the Court, with the exception of the duc d ’ Angoulême who stayed behind with the troops, and the duchesse d ’ Angoulême, who was taking the waters at Vichy.

The most obvious example was the commander of the French center, then goes by the name of General Egalite, but actually the duc de Chartres, and the future King Louis-Philippe of France.

On the same day a further French corps under General François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg ( 1628 – 1695 ) managed to take Salin.

Many of those troops escaped and alerted Lieutenant General Charles-Armand de Gontaut, duc de Biron, who commanded the vanguard, of the presence of Allied troops on the west bank.

After the treaty of Tilsit ( 7 July 1807 ) Savary proceeded to St Petersburg as the French ambassador, but was soon replaced by General Caulaincourt, another accessory to the execution of the duc d ' Enghien.

Château de Châlus-Chabrol, Châlus, Haute-Vienne, 24 February 1734-Paris, 7 July 1821, daughter of Gabriel de Châlus, seigneur de Sansac, and Claire Gérault de Solages ), one of the ladies-in-waiting of Elizabeth, Duchess of Parma and Chamberlain-Major of Princess Marie Adélaïde of France, and his father was either her husband ( m. 10 July 1749 ), a nobleman of Spanish remote descent Don Jean François, 1er duc de Narbonne-Lara Grandee of Spain 1st Class, Lieutenant General of the Army, Commander in Name of the King of the Dioceses of Castres, Albi and Lavaur, 1st Gentleman of the House of H. R. H.

With the Bourbon Restoration, Mirbel's friend Élie, duc Decazes, then Minister of Interior, offered him the post of Secretary General.

; General Secondary: Lycée d ' Enseignement général ( School of General Teaching ), lycées polyvalents ( General-Purpose School ) Length of program: three yearsAge range: 15 to 18Certificate / diploma awarded: Baccalauréat de l ' Enseignement secondaire ( Bachelor's Degree of Secondary School )

* 1703 – Lorenzo Ricci, Italian religious leader, 18th Superior General of the Society of Jesus ( d. 1775 )

* 1964 – Vietnam War: A coup d ' état replaces Duong Van Minh with General Nguyen Khanh as President of South Vietnam.

* 1911 – Joseph Luns, Dutch politician and diplomat, 5th Secretary General of NATO ( d. 2002 )

* 1900 – Roland Michener, Canadian politician, Governor General of Canada ( d. 1991 )

In the province of Quebec, even when speaking in English, colleges are called Cégeps for Collège d ' enseignement général et professionnel, meaning " College of General and Vocational Education ".

Chiang Ching-kuo orchestrated the controversial court-martial and arrest of General Sun Li-jen in August 1955, for plotting a coup d ' état with the American CIA against his father Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang.

Général d ' armée Louis Bobozo, and Generaux de Corps d ' Armee Nyamaseko Mata Bokongo, Nzoigba Yeu Ngoli, Muke Massaku, Ingila Grima, Itambo Kambala Wa Mukina, Tshinyama Mpemba, and General de Division Yossa Yi Ayira, the last having been commander of the Kamina base, were all retired on 25 July 1972.

* 1760 – John Breckinridge, American politician and 5th United States Attorney General ( d. 1806 )

The European powers then determined to intervene, and authorized the landing in Beirut of a body of French troops under General Beaufort d ' Hautpoul, whose inscription can still be seen on the historic rock at the mouth of Nahr al-Kalb.

* 1896 – Jimmy Doolittle, American General ( d. 1993 )

* 1913 – Arnold Brown, the 11th General of The Salvation Army ( d. 2002 )

The most significant figure of the era, however, was General José María Urbina, who first came to power in 1851 through a coup d ' état, remained in the presidency until 1856, and then continued to dominate the political scene until 1860.

William Gordon ( d. 1816 ), eldest son from the third marriage of the second Earl, was a General in the Army.

* 1991 – In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong leads a bloodless coup d ' état, deposing Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan.

* 1915 – Paul Tibbets, US Air Force retired Brigadier General and pilot of B-29 " Enola Gay " over Hiroshima ( d. 2007 )

* 1892 – Robert H. Jackson, American jurist, 57th United States Attorney General and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court ( d. 1954 )

On March 23, 1982, army troops commanded by junior officers staged a coup d ' état to prevent the assumption of power by General Ángel Aníbal Guevara, the hand-picked candidate of outgoing President and General Romeo Lucas García.

Aristide's radical populist policies and the violence of his bands of supporters alarmed many of the country's elite, and, in September 1991, he was overthrown in the 1991 Haitian coup d ' état, which brought General Raoul Cédras to power.

* 1841 – Frederick Arthur Stanley, Governor General of Canada ( d. 1908 )

* 1819 – Anton Anderledy, Swiss missionary, 23rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus ( d. 1892 )

* 1918 – William Seawell, United States Army Brigadier General ( d. 2005 )