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ELIE FREDERIC FOREY (1804-1872)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 660 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ELIE FREDERIC FOREY (1804-1872)  , marshal of France, was born at Paris on the 5th of
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January 1804, and entered the army from St Cyr in 1824 . He took
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part in the earlier Algerian
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campaigns, and became captain in 1835 . Four years later he was given command of a
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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
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Napoleon III. made him a general of division shortly afterwards . He held a
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superior command in the
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Crimean War, and in the
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Italian
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campaign of '85o distinguished himself very greatly in the
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action of Montebello (20th May) . In 1862 Forey was placed in command of the French expeditionary corps in Mexico, with the fullest
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civil and military powers, and he crowned a successful campaign by the capture of Mexico city in May 1863, receiving as his
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reward the marshal's baton . From December 1863 to '867 he held high commands in France, but in the latter
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year he was struck with paralysis and had to retire . Marshal Forey died at Paris on the 20th of
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June 1872 .

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