The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1870-08-11
THE FRENCH LEADERS.

tons have been made chiefly 10 the midst
of events equally if not more important
than this is likely to be. The following
accounts of some Of them will be read with |
interest:
GENERAL EDMOND LEBoEUF.
General Edmond Loboeuf, born 5th |
November 1909, was educated In the
Polytechnic school aud the artillery school
of Metz. Captain in 1887, chief OF squad
ron in technic school from 1S4S to 1891,
became colonel in 1852, and served in the
Crimea from the beglrning, of the war at
the head of the artillery. Made General of
Brigade, 1854, he became General of DIV.
islon 3lst December. 1857. lie commanded
ed the artillery during the Italian cam
paign of 1859 he then became aid de-
camp to the Emperor and member of the
artillery committee. In September. 1866,
General Deboeuf was sent to Venice in the
capacity of Imperial Commissioner. charged
with returning the province to the Italian
authorities. This was done by reason OF
The plebisctte, By which the Venetian peo>
ple declared their union With the Kingdom
of Italy, In January, 1867, he was sent
to replace General De GoyOn at toulouse,
and TO command the sixth army corps. BY
the decree of the 2lst of August OF the
same year General Leboeuf was called to
succeed Marshal Mel as Minister.of War,
member OF the Cabinet, which was as Il
! parliamentary regime promised by the i'm
I perial message Of the 18th of July, he in
tcres:ed himself in the reforms PERTAINING
to the interior organization of the country,
which had for their object the facilitating of
the administrative Sc vices of the army,
and rcsolu,ely undertook the reorganization
of the personnel Of the bureaus. This
brought him much appreciation. On the
9th OF December he took leave of all his
colleagues, to give place to the new parlia-
mentry cabinet formed by VI. Emile Oliver,
but bis portfolio was returned to him in
the ministerial combination of the Sd Of
January, 1860. General Leboeuf was
elected member of the General Council of
Orne for the Canton of Trun, Officer of
the Legion of Honor, 1910, commander
llth August, 1850, General Leboeuf was
made Grand officer 25th August, 1859,
and received the Grand Cross Dist Decem-
Der. 1866
THE FRENCH GENERALS-MARSHALC CAM
ROBERT.
Marshal Canrobert (Erancois,) who COM
mands the trst army corps, is over sixty
years of age, having been born in 1909.
HIS military celebrity, like that of most of
the French generals, was commenced in
Algeria, and was perfected before Sebasto
pol. He is of an ancient family in Britta>
ny, his father having been an officer in the
Royalist army of the Prince Of Condo. He
also graduated at St. Cyr. He took part
in the subjugation of Algeria, fphtipgwith
great vlgor, AID gradually raising to the
rank OF colonel, after having got the Legion
Of Homer and the charge of the foreign
legation of France after the fall of the
Earlles party in Spain.
At the nomination Of Louis Napoleon az
President, Canrboert Joined his party. He
became general in the new Republic, and
il the coup d etat had command Of one of
the divisions of the Army of Paris and
assisted in the repression Of the popular
dissatisfaction. Somo political functions of
considerable Importance were next assigned
to him, and in 1853 he became general of
division. Canrobert was sent to Turkey
in 1854, in command oftbe first division of
the Army of the East. He was at the bat
tie of the Alma. and was slightly wounded.
Two days afterwards, when St. Arnault,
commander In, chief Of the French, was
dying, he turned over the command to
Canrobert, who moved immediately on Sc
bastapol, but finding u coup dc main im
practicable, he went forthwith laid down a
plan Of gigantic investment He was
wounded at lnkermann. His mode of
procedure not beiuY satisfactory 80 Lurd
Raglan. the British commander, Canrobert
was relieved by Pelissier from the commad
er inchief ship, and resumed duty a. the
head of his own corps In 1859 he was
made marshal Of France. In the French
Austrian war be was at the head of the
third corps. He was at Magenta and
Solterino. Latterly he has commanded
the troops at Paris. His vote against the
temporal power Of the Pope in 1891 must
be regarded rather as matter Of military
obedience or policy than of personal opin-
ion.
COUNT DE PALIKAo.
Charles Guillaume Marie Cousin de Mon
tauban, Count de Palkao, the French Gen
eral and Senator, now called to the COM
mand of the second army corps, was born
on the oath Of June, 1896. He was EN-.
ployed at an early age in Algeria, and dis
tlngulshed himself there as cavalry off
Ger. After an eventful military career, be
was invested in 1860 with the chief com-
mand of the French expedition Into China,
and had the honor Of accomplishing that
almost fabulous invasion which brought the
arms and banners of the French and Eng
lish even to the capital of this vast aud dis
tant empire. The capture of the forts of
of Takou, at the mouth Of tbe Peiho, on
the Goth of August, the great victory of
Palikao over Gen. Sang ,ko- bio in, on the
Dist Of September, the destruction of the
royal palace, the entry into Pek:n on the
10th OF October, forced the Chinese to &c
cept the treaty imposed by the allies, and
assured, at least temporarily, the re spect
OF European inte7ests.in the extreme East.
In rocompense for these great successes,
the Emperor had already elevated him to
the dignity of the grand cross Of the LIE
T 9ieo of InnnT 90 the 26th of December
1900 and made him Senator on the 4th of
March, 1861. He was subsequently made
Coun. de Palikao, was pensioned. and in
1865 took command Of the fourth army
corps at Lyons when Canrobert was called
to Paris. In 1860, when he was given the
grand cross, he could count forty two