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| | Charles Denis Bourbaki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | In the Crimean War he commanded a portion of the Algerian troops; and at the Alma, Inkerman and Sevastopol Bourbaki's name became famous.In 1857 he was made general of division, commanding in 1859 at Lyons. |
 | | Bourbaki at once went to England, with Prussian connivance,as though he had a recognized mission, only to discover from the empress at Hastings that a trick had been played on him; and assoon as he could manage he returned to France. |
 | | Bourbaki himself, rather than submit to the humiliation of a probable surrender, on January 26, 1871 delegated his functions to GeneralClinchant, and in the night fired a pistol at his own head, but the bullet, owing to a deviation of the weapon, was flattenedagainst his skull and his life was saved. |
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