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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.
The Siege of Metz was a battle fought during the Franco-Prussian War from August 19 to October 27, 1870 and ended in a decisive allied German victory. The French Army of the Rhine under François Bazaine retreated into the Metz fortress after its defeat by the Germans at the Battle of Gravelotte on 18 August 1870.
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.
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François Achille Bazaine (13 February 1811 – 23 September 1888) was a French General and from 1864, a Marshal of France, who surrendered the last organized French army to the Prussians during the Franco-Prussian war.
