French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon
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 officially became part of the French colonial empire, as part of the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon, and was administered from Damascus. From November 1929 to November 1931, Charles de Gaulle was posted as General Staff of the Levant Troops in Beirut.