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Dépôt de la Guerre bụ ngalaba nchekwa na eserese ndị agha France nke e hibere na 1688 n'okpuru Louis XIV wee gbasaa n'oge Agha Mgbanwe nke France na Agha Napoleon.

François Michel Le Tellier de Louvois hiwere ya, e debere ya maka ịchịkọta, ichekwa, ịdepụta na ibipụta akwụkwọ akụkọ ihe mere eme, ncheta agha, maapụ na atụmatụ na ọrụ topographic niile.  Na narị afọ nke 18, Lieutenant-General Vault keere òkè pụtara ìhè na ọrụ Dépôt..

Effectively dissolved during the early years of the French Revolution thanks to a decision by the Constituent Assembly to suppress the military geographical-engineers corps, it was reestablished by Étienne Nicolas de Calon between April 1793 and May 1797, under the new name Dépôt général de la Guerre et de la Géographie (in full, Dépôt général de la Guerre de terre et de mer et de la Géographie) - this underlined the military importance of creating maps and keeping them up to date. However, the staff provided for it were insufficient for its initial ambitions - a large part of its personnel shifted to the Bureau des longitudes and the Service hydrologique de la Marine.