* 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.

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.

He ordered his rearguard under Major-General Prince Pyotr Bagration to delay the French.

The merit of British professional commanders was illustrated by Major-General Sir Isaac Brock in Upper Canada ( Ontario ) and Lieutenant-Colonel Charles de Salaberry, a French Canadian, in Lower Canada ( Quebec ).

Allenby was made second in command of the Inniskillings and sent to Naauwpoort Junction to join Major-General John French ’ s Cavalry Division.

The army's small size forced Major-General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, commander of French forces in Canada, to rely on Indians, and although traditional French allies like the Nipissing, Algonkin, and Abenaki contributed a thousand warriors, it was not enough.

A car carrying the Free French commanders, General Georges Catroux and Major-General Paul Legentilhomme | Paul Louis Le Gentilhomme, enters the city.

Gillespie reached the rank of Major-General and joined an Irish cavalry regiment before campaigning against the French in the West Indies.

* Relief of Kimberley ( 13 February 1900 ): Major-General John French led a charge of 7, 500 cavalry through Boer lines to lift the Siege of Kimberley, during the Second Boer War.

Although the traditional view appears absurd with hindsight ( see, for example ) it was reestablished as Roberts retired and French and his protégé Major-General Haig rose to the top of the army.

A car carrying the Free French commanders, General Georges Catroux and Major-General Paul Louis Le Gentilhomme, enters the city.

The Articles of Capitulation of Montreal were agreed upon between the Governor General of New France, Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal, and Major-General Jeffrey Amherst on behalf of the French and British crowns.

There they encountered 46, 000 French under Marshal Claude Victor and Major-General Horace Sebastiani, with the French king of Spain, Joseph Bonaparte in nominal command.

* 1752 After Chandra and the French allies attempt to retake Arcot leaving Trichinopoly undefended, Major-General Stringer Lawrence, with Clive captured Trichinopoly.

Its purpose was threefold – to relieve pressure on the French armies at Verdun, to inflict as heavy losses as possible on the German armies, and to aid allies on other fronts by preventing any further transfer of Germany troops from the west .” The Canadian Corps is formed after receiving the 2nd and 3rd division ; its first commander was Major-General M. S. Mercer.

The counterattack would be led by Major-General Harold Franklyn ; his forces — codenamed Frankforce, consisted of two divisions — the 5th Division and the 50th ( Northumbrian ) Infantry Division, plus 74 tanks from the 1st Army Tank Brigade and 60 supporting French tanks.

Harassed by French artillery each time he redeployed his forces following a French attack, his infantry reserves exhausted and fearing that his shaky left flank was about to be charged by French cavalry, General von Alvensleben sent a message to the commander of the nearby 12th Cavalry Brigade, Major-General Friedrich Wilhelm Adalbert von Bredow, demanding that he silence French General François Canrobert's artillery and forestall a French cavalry charge with one of his own.

Major-General Sir Edward Louis Spears, 1st Baronet, KBE, CB, MC ( 7 August 1886 – 27 January 1974 ) was a British Army officer and Member of Parliament noted for his role as a liaison officer between British and French forces in two world wars.

* 1713 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer ( d. 1796 )

* 1941 – François Weyergans, French doctor and writer

This influenced European intellectuals like François Quesnay, an avid Confucianist and advocate of China's agrarian policies, forming the French agrarian philosophy of Physiocracy.

* 1738 – Jacques François Dugommier, French general ( d. 1794 )

In September of 1820, Ampère ’ s friend and eventual eulogist François Arago showed the members of the French Academy of Sciences the surprising discovery of Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted that a magnetic needle is deflected by an adjacent electric current.

* 1625 – François de Harlay de Champvallon, French archbishop ( d. 1695 )

* 1954 – François Hollande, French politician, 24th President of France

* 1624 – François de la Chaise, French priest ( d. 1709 )

* 1524 – François Hotman, French lawyer and writer ( d. 1590 )

* 1750 – François de Neufchâteau, French statesman ( d. 1828 )

* 1837 – Marie François Sadi Carnot, French statesman, 4th President of the French Republic ( d. 1894 )

* 1785 – Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French composer ( d. 1858 )

* 1604 – François Hédelin, abbé d ' Aubignac, French writer ( d. 1676 )

* 1954 – François Valéry, French singer-songwriter and composer

* 1644 – François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier ( d. 1730 )

* 1801 – Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer ( b. 1724 )

In 1794, this fortress was used by the French astronomer Pierre François André Méchain for observations relating to a survey stretching to Dunkirk that provided the official basis of the measurement of a metre.

* François Cabarrus ( 1752 – 1810 ), French adventurer and Spanish financier.

These reformed French Breviaries — e. g. the Paris Breviary of 1680 by Archbishop François de Harlay ( 1625 – 1695 ) and that of 1736 by Archbishop Charles Gaspard Guillaume de Vintimille ( 1655 – 1746 )— show a deep knowledge of Holy Scripture, and much careful adaptation of different texts.

When in 1981 François Mitterrand was elected president Denard lost the support of the French intelligence service, but he managed to strengthen the link between SA and the Comoros.

The first-ever affinity table, which was based on displacement reactions, was published in 1718 by the French chemist Étienne François Geoffroy.

In France, Claude François who re-invented himself as the king of French disco, released " La plus belle chose du monde ", a French version of the Bee Gees hit record, " Massachusetts ", which became a big hit in Canada and Europe and " Alexandrie Alexandra " was posthumously released on the day of his burial and became a worldwide hit.

* 1855 – Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician ( b. 1803 )