11 Facts About Marshal Bugeaud

Marshal Bugeaud was born at Limoges, a member of a noble family of Perigord, the youngest of thirteen children.

Marshal Bugeaud ran away from home, and for some years lived in the country as an agricultural worker.

Marshal Bugeaud spent the fifteen years after the fall of Napoleon without employment, returning to agriculture and developing his home district of Perigord.

Marshal Bugeaud embarked on a campaign to win the swift, complete, and lasting subjugation of Algeria.

Marshal Bugeaud was sent to Africa in a subordinate capacity and proceeded to initiate his war of flying columns.

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Marshal Bugeaud won his first victory on 7 July 1836, made a brilliant campaign of six weeks' duration, and returned home with the rank of lieutenant-general.

In 1843, Bugeaud was made marshal of France, and in this and the following year he continued his operations with unvarying success.

Marshal Bugeaud's resignation was due to differences with the home government on the question of the future government of the province.

In 1848, Marshal Bugeaud was in Paris during the revolution, but his orders prevented him from acting effectively to suppress it.

Marshal Bugeaud was asked, but eventually refused, to be a candidate for the presidency in opposition to Louis Napoleon.

Marshal Bugeaud's writings were numerous, including his Œuvres militaires, collected by Weil, many official reports on Algeria and the war there, and some works on economics and political science.