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JOSEPH VINOY (1803-1880)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 100 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOSEPH See also:VINOY (1803-1880)  , See also:French soldier, was originally intended for the See also:Church, but, after some years at a See also:seminary, he decided upon a military career, and entered the See also:army in 1823 . When he was a sergeant in the 14th See also:line See also:infantry, he took See also:part in the Algerian expedition of 1830 . He won his See also:commission at the See also:capture of See also:Algiers, and during the subsequent See also:campaigns he See also:rose by See also:good service to the See also:rank of See also:colonel . He returned to See also:France in 1850, and in the See also:Crimean See also:War served under See also:Canrobert as See also:general of See also:brigade . For his brilliant See also:con-duct at the Malakoff he was promoted general of See also:division, and he led a division of See also:Niel's See also:corps in the See also:campaign of See also:Solferino . Retired on See also:account of See also:age in 1865, he was recalled to active service on the outbreak of the war of 1870, and after the See also:early reverses was put at the See also:head of the XIII. army corps, which, fortunately for France, did not arrive at the front in See also:time to be involved in the See also:catastrophe of See also:Sedan . By a skilful See also:retreat he brought his corps intact to See also:Paris on See also:September 7th . See also:Vinoy during the See also:siege commanded the III. army operating on the See also:south See also:side of the See also:capital and took part in all the actions in that See also:quarter . On See also:Trochu's resignation he was appointed to the supreme command, in which capacity he had to negotiate the surrender . During the See also:commune he held important commands in the army of See also:Versailles, and occupied the burning Tuileries and the Louvre on May 23rd . He was in the same See also:year made See also:grand See also:chancellor of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour . Vinoy wrote several See also:memoirs on the war of 187o-71: Operations de See also:ramie See also:pendant le siege de Paris (1872), L'See also:Armistice et la commune (1872), L'Armee francaise (1873) .

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