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Montgomery Meigs, who led U.S. Army in Europe, dies at 76

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July 13, 2021 at 3:31 p.m. EDT
Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs, right, shakes hands in 2002 with Gen. Burwell B. Bell, his successor as commander of U.S. Army forces in Europe. (Matthias Ernert/Matthias Ernert/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)

Montgomery C. Meigs, a four-star Army general who commanded a U.S. European military force of 60,000 from 1998 to 2002 and oversaw NATO peacekeeping efforts in Bosnia, died July 6 at his home in Austin. He was 76.

The cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia, said his wife, Mary Ann Meigs.