BONNEVAL, CLAUDE ALEXANDRE, COMTE DE (16751747)

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BONNEVAL, CLAUDE ALEXANDRE, COMTE DE (16751747) , French adventurer, known also as AIIMED PASHA, was the descendant of an old family of

Limousin

. He was born on the 14th of July 1675, and at the age of thirteen joined the Royal Marine Corps. After three years he entered the army, in which he rose to the command of a regiment. He served in the Italian campaigns under Catinat, Villeroi and Vendome, and in the

Netherlands

NETHERLANDS

under Luxemburg, giving proofs of indomitable courage and

great

GREAT

military ability. His insolent bearing towards the minister of war was made matter for a court-martial (1704). He was condemned to death, but saved himself by flight to Germany. Through the influence of Prince

Eugene

EUGENE

he obtained a general's command in the Austrian army, and fought with

great

GREAT

bravery and distinction against France, and afterwards against Turkey. He was present at Malplaquet, and was severely wounded at Peterwardein. The proceedings against him in France were then allowed to drop, and he visited Paris, and married a daughter of

Marshal

MARSHAL (med. Lat. marescalcus, from O.H.Ger. marah, horse, and scalc, servant)

de Biron. He returned, however, after a short time to the Austrian army, and fought with distinction at Belgrade. He might now have risen to the highest rank, had he not made himself disagreeable to Prince

Eugene

EUGENE

, who sent him as master of the ordnance to the Low Countries. There his ungovernable temper led him into a quarrel with the marquis de Prie, Eugene's

deputy

DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

governor

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

in the

Netherlands

NETHERLANDS

, who answered his challenge by placing him in confinement. A court-martial was again held upon him, and he was condemned to death; but the emperor commuted the sentence to one year's imprisonment and banishment. Bonneval, soon after his release, offered his services to the Turkish government, professed the

Mahommedan

MAHOMMEDAN

faith, and took the name of Ahmed. He was made a pasha, and appointed to organize and command the artillery. He rendered valuable services to the sultan in his war with Russia, and with the famous Nadir Shah. As a reward he received the governorship of Chios, but he soon fell under the suspicion of the Porte, and was banished for a time to the shores of the Black Sea. He was meditating a return to Europe and Christianity when he died at

Constantinople

CONSTANTINOPLE
CONSTANTINOPLE, COUNCILS OF

on the 23rd of

March

1747.
The Memoirs published under his name are spurious. See Prince de Ligne, Memoire sur le comte de Bonneval (Paris, 1817) ; and A. Vandal, Le Pacha Bonneval (Paris, 1885).

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