Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle has immortalized him, "La Marseillaise", was composed at Strasbourg, where Rouget de Lisle was garrisoned in April 1792. France had just declared war on Austria, and the mayor of Strasbourg, baron Philippe-Frédéric de Dietrich, held a dinner for the officers of the garrison, at which he lamented that France had no national anthem. Rouget de Lisle returned to his quarters and wrote the words in a fit of patriotic excitement. The piece was at first called "Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin" ("War Song for the Army of the Rhine") and only received its name of "Marseillaise" from its
Beauvoir De Lisle 1918 and GOC XV Corps in April 1918. After the War he was appointed GOC-in-Chief of Western Command: he held this post until 1923 and then retired in 1926. Along with the First Sea Lord, Admiral Lord Fisher, General de Lisle convinced General Edmund Allenby that Jerusalem would be delivered from the Turks in 1917 by the British. In June 1917, General Allenby was ordered to leave his Third Army and take command of the British war effort in the Middle East. However General Allenby was not excited about his new assignment. General Sir Beauvoir de Lisle met Allenby at