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unusual facts about Bertrand Clausel


Bertrand Clausel

He then settled in the Vine and Olive Colony in Alabama, later returning to France after the failure of that venture.


Louis-Eugène Cavaignac

This continued to be the main sphere of his activity for sixteen years, and he won special distinction in his fifteen months' command of the exposed garrison of Tlemcen, a command for which he was selected by Marshal Bertrand Clausel (1836–1837), and in the defence of Cherchell (1840).

Siege of Constantine

As Charles X tried in 1830 with the expedition to Algiers, the king of the French was seeking a better result in the elections by offering the country a little military glory and revenge for Clausel's failed expedition against Constantine in 1836.


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