World War II for Écouché culminated with several days of street fighting by Free French forces under General Philippe Leclerc.
Following the recapture of Alençon on 12 August 1944, the Division, led by General Leclerc, proceeded north towards Argentan.
The youngest of these had a son, who became a noted egyptologist; he, in turn, had three sons.
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He came from an old line of country nobility; his direct ancestors had served in the Fifth Crusade against Egypt, and again in the Eighth Crusade of Saint Louis against Tunisia in 1270.
General Leclerc was famously presented with a defiant group of 11 or 12 captured 33rd SS Charlemagne men.
On April 21, 1945, before fleeing the city, the Gestapo took the French resistants and political prisoners held in the prison of Wolfach to a forest outside of the town, forced them to dig their own graves, and shot them on the spot, just three hours before the arrival of the French 2nd Armored Division commanded by General Leclerc.
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In Kill the General mode, a General (George S. Patton for the US, Bernard Law Montgomery for the UK, Erwin Rommel for Germany, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque for France, Georgi Zhukov for the USSR, Tomoyuki Yamashita for Japan, and Giovanni Messe for Italy) is pre-set, while other units are chosen by the player.