Biographies : 6
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BiographyCANROBERT, François Certain
François Certain Canrobert was born in the Lot département of France on 27 June, 1809, into a wealthy bourgeois family. Both his father and his grandfather were lawyers, and the name Certain had been added to the family name by Canrobert's father at the end of the Ancien Régime period. Antoine Certain de Canrobert, François' […]
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BiographyCésar-Charles-Etienne, comte GUDIN DE LA SABLONNIÈRE (1768-1812), division generalBorn in Montargis (French department of the Loiret) on 13 February 1768, died in Smolensk from wounds received in Valoutina on 22 August 1812. Was a noble and son of an officer in the Artois regiment; his uncle became General Étienne Gudin.
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BiographyCHERNICHEV, Aleksander
Alexander Chernichev was born into a prominent Russian noble family. He took part in the 1805 – 1807 campaigns distinguishing himself at Austerlitz and Friedland, before being dispatched on diplomatic missions to France in 1808. He combined a sense of superiority in his own abilities, flourishing in society, with the qualities of an excellent military […]
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BiographyCHICHAGOV, Pavel Vasilievich
Pavel Chichagov was the son of a prominent Russian admiral. He studied in the Navy Corps, before serving in the Life Guard Preobrazhensk Regiment as a sergeant in 1779. He participated in the campaign in the Mediterranean from 1782 – 1784 before becoming a naval lieutenant on 17 September 1783 and captain lieutenant on 25 […]
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BiographyCORNWALLIS, Charles
Born in London, 1738, Charles Mann, 2nd Marquis of Cornwallis, participated in the American War of Independence (1775-1783). Despite his victories at Camden (1780) and Guilford Courthouse (1781), his capitulation at Yorktown in the face of the Franco-American forces under Rochambeau and Washington on 19 October, 1781, led directly to American independence via the Treaty of […]
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BiographyCOUSIN DE MONTAUBAN, Charles Guillaume
Cousin-Moutauban was born on 24 June, 1796, the son of Jean-Antoine Cousin-Montauban and Appoline de Launay. In July 1814 he volunteered for and was admitted into the Gardes du corps de Monsieur (the King's brother's personal guard corps), and on 13 December, 1815, he made Second Lieutenant in the 3e régiment de cuirassiers. In 1820, […]