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François Achille Bazaine (13 February 1811 – 23 September 1888) was an officer of the French army. Rising from the ranks, during four decades of distinguished service (including 35 years on campaign) under Louis-Philippe and then Napoleon III, he held every rank in the army from fusilier to Marshal of France, the latter in 1863.
François Achille Bazaine, né à Versailles le 13 février 1811 et mort à Madrid le 23 septembre 1888, est un général de division et maréchal de France. Il combat en Algérie, en Espagne, en Crimée, en Italie puis commande le corps expéditionnaire français durant l'expédition du Mexique.
Achille Bazaine (born Feb. 13, 1811, Versailles, Fr.—died Sept. 28, 1888, Madrid) was a marshal of France who, after distinguished service during the Second Empire, was sentenced to death for his surrender of Metz and 140,000 men to the Germans on Oct. 27, 1870, during the Franco-German War.
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François Achille Bazaine (b. 13 February 1811; d. 23 September 1888), French military commander in Mexico (1863–1867). Born near Metz, Bazaine joined the French Foreign Legion in 1832, serving in Algeria and Spain.
François Achille Bazaine was the son of Pierre Dominique and Marie Madeleine Josèphe, known as Mélanie Vasseur. He enlisted in the army in 1831, following his failure in the competition for entry to the Ecole Polytechnique.
Jun 24, 2006 · On the evening of 14 August 1870, Marshal François Achille Bazaine, appointed commander of the French Army of the Rhine just two days before, seemed at last to have stemmed the tide of French disasters in the war against Prussia.
On February 13, 1811, François Achille Bazaine, a French marshal and one of the most celebrated members of the Foreign Legion, was born. He became a soldier of Bazaine in 1831, and soon joined the Legion of Aliens, which was formed at that time.
