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FOREY, ELIE FREDERIC (1804-1872)

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 660 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FLA-FRA
FOREY, ELIE FREDERIC (1804-1872) ,
marshal
  of France, was born at Paris on the 5th of January 1804, and entered the army from St Cyr in 1824. He took
part
  in the earlier Algerian
campaigns
 , and became captain in 1835. Four years later he was given command of a battalion of chasseurs d pied and in 1844 he became colonel. At the Revolution of 1848. Cavaignac made him a general of brigade. He took an active
part
  in the coup d'etat of the 2nd of December 1851, and
Napoleon
  III. made him a general of division shortly afterwards. He held a superior command in the Crimean War, and in the Italian campaign of '85o distinguished himself very greatly in the action of Montebello (20th May). In 1862 Forey was placed in command of the French expeditionary corps in
Mexico
 , with the fullest civil and military
powers
 , and he crowned a successful campaign by the capture of
Mexico
  city in May 1863, receiving as his reward the
marshal
 's
baton
 . From December 1863 to '867 he held high commands in France, but in the latter year he was struck with paralysis and had to retire. Marshal Forey died at Paris on the 20th of June 1872.


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