ELIE

See also:

• FREDERIC, HAROLD (1856-1898)

FREDERIC

See also:

• ELIE FREDERIC FOREY (1804-1872)

FOREY (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 .