page_title: Prosper Baccuet
section_title: Military career
hierarchical_section_title: Prosper Baccuet / Biography / Military career
caption_attribution_description: English: The French Camp and Marabout at Lalla Maghiria
context_page_description: Pierre Henry Prosper Baccuet was a French military officer and landscape painter; known primarily for his Orientalist scenes.
context_section_description: He was the son of a merchant. In 1813, before he was quite sixteen, he enlisted as a quartermaster in the artillery train of the Garde Napolitaine; a unit of the short-lived Napoleonic Kingdom of Naples. By the following year, he had become a Sergeant in the Chevau-léger (cavalry) of the same unit and, eventually a Sous-lieutenant in the line infantry.
  After the fall of Joachim Murat, the nominal King of Naples, his unit was incorporated into the equivalent unit of the French army. From there, he went into the 7e régiment de chasseurs à cheval (another cavalry group) then, in 1820, into the Grenadiers on Horseback guard, who were part of the Maison militaire du roi de France. He became a full Lieutenant in 1827.
  That guard was dissolved following the July Revolution, but he was recalled to the 10th Regiment of cuirassiers a year later and was promoted to Captain shortly thereafter. He participated in the Ten Days' Campaign of 1832, received the Legion of Honor in 1833 and retired in 1846.
caption: A French camp and Marabout at Lalla Marghiria
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