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