Date of birth:

November 6th, 1794 (Maromme, France)

Date of death:

May 22nd, 1864 (Algiers, Algeria)

Nationality:

French (1870-present, Republic)

Maréchal Aimable Jean Jacques Pélissier, duc de Malakoff

January 12th, 1814: Académie de La Flèche, Le Mans, France
August 25th, 1814: école de Saint-Cyr
March 18th,1815: promoted to sous-lieutenant, artillerie de la Maison du Roi
April 10th, 1815: 57e Régiment d'Infanterie de Ligne
March 1815: Armée du Rhin
December 1815-1819: légion départementale de la Seine-Inférieure
1819: corps d'état-major
1823: aide de camp, expédition in Spain d'Espagne
1828: Morea Campaign, Pelopponese, Greece
1830: expédition in Algiers
1834: promoted to chef d'escadron
1835: état-major, Paris
August 14th,1844: commandant, left wing during the battle of Isly, Marocco
1844: promoted to lieutenant-colonel, chef d'état-major, province d'Oran, Algeria
June 1845: massacres at the Dahra caves
1845: promoted to général de brigade
1850: promoted to général de division
May 1851: gouverneur-général de l’Algérie
December 04th,1852: captured the oasis Laghouat
May 1855: replaced maréchal Canrobert as commandant en chef, Armée d'Orient - Sébastopol - Crimean War
September 08th, 1855: captured the Malakoff Hill
September 12th, 1855: promoted to maréchal de France
1856: Freemason, created the lodge « St Jean de Crimée » during the siege of Sébastopol
1857: promoted sénator and made Duke of Malakoff
March 1858-May 1859: ambassador at London
May 1859: commandant, armée d’observation sur le Rhin
1859: Grand chancelier de la Légion d'honneur.
December 1860: gouverneur-général de l’Algérie
March 1864: rebellion of the Sidi Cheikh
May 1864: rebellion of the Flittas, région Relizane
1864: a village close to Mostaganem is named Pélissier, today Sayada, Algeria

Awards:
1829: awarded the French Knight cross of Saint-Louis
1857: awaded the French Medal of Sainte Hélène

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