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The admiral who defied orders to save a people

In 1915, Admiral Louis Dartige du Fournet took it upon himself to rescue 4,000 Armenians from certain death on Musa Dagh. Over a century later, Armenia honored his legacy by enshiring him among the foreign rescuers of the Armenian people. 

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