In 1920, soon after the end of World War I, the League of Nations mandated that Lebanon would be administered by France after the Partition of the Ottoman Empire. Lebanon became part of the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon and administered from Damascus and officially part of the French colonial empire.[3] From November 1929 to November 1931, Charles de Gaulle was posted as General Staff of the Levant Troops in Beirut.[4]