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Charras, Jean-Baptiste Adolphe, 1810-1865

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Personal name headingCharras, Jean-Baptiste Adolphe, 1810-1865
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Associated countryFrance Algeria Belgium Netherlands
Birth date18100107
Death date18650123
Place of birthPhalsbourg (France)
Place of deathBasel (Switzerland)
Field of activityFrance--History, Military France--Politics and government France--Colonies--Africa
Profession or occupationMilitary historians Armed Forces--Officers Politicians
minister of war
Found inFünf Pläne und Karten zur Geschichte des Feldzuges von 1815, 1858: t.p. (Oberstleutnant Charras)
OCLC, Oct. 21, 2010 (hdg.: Charras, Jean B.A.; Charras, Jean Bapt. Ad.; Charras, Jean Baptist Adolphe; Charras, Jean Baptiste; Charras; Charras, Jean Baptiste Adolphe; Charras, Jean-Baptiste-Adolphe (1810-1865); Charras, Jean Baptiste Adolphe, 1800-1865; Charras, Jean-Baptiste-Adolphe, 1810-1865; Charras, Jean-Baptiste Adolphe, 1800-1865; Charras, Jean Baptiste Adolphe, 1810-1865; Charras, Jean-Baptiste-Alphonse, 1810-1865 ; usage: J.B.A. Charras; Jean Bapt. Ad. Charras; Jean Baptist Adolphe Charras; Lt.-Colonel Charras; Jean-Baptiste Charras; Charras; Lt. Colonel Charras; Jean Baptiste Adolphe Charras; Oberstleutnant Charras)
Assemblée-nationale, base de données historique des anciens députés, via WWW, Oct. 21, 2010 (Jean-Baptiste Adolphe Charras, military historian and minister of war, born Jan. 7, 1810 in Phalsbourg, France, died Jan. 23, 1865 in Basel, Switzerland)
Dictionnaire de la conversation et de la lecture inventaire..., Supplément offrant le résumé des faits et des idées de notre temps, t. 2, 1884, viewed online Aug. 6, 2015: page 178 (CHARRAS (Jean-Baptiste-Adolphe), b. 7 Jan. 1810, Phalsbourg; from a family of republican values; entered École polytechnique, Paris in 1828; chose artillery, made lieutenant in 1833; sent to Algeria, named captain in 1838, commandant de l'artillerie at Cherchell in 1841; learned Arabic) page 179 (returned to France in 1848 on leave, learned of the proclamation of the republic, named secretary to the commission of national defense; named chef d'état-majeur, armée de Paris in June, wounded) page 180 (by 1849 involved in politics, elected to the Assemblée législative as representative of Puy-de-Dôme; arrested in 1852, sent to Belgium, went to Holland where he studied the theatre of war of 1815, published Histoire de la campagne de 1815: Waterloo (1857), banned in France; d. 22 Jan. 1865 in Basel)
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