McMahon, de, Patrice

Date of birth:: June 13th, 1808 (château de Sully, Saône-et-Loire, France)
Date of death:: October 17th, 1893 (château de la Forêt, Montcresson, Loiret France)
Buried on:: Tombs Église Saint-Louis-des-Invalides
Nationality:: French

Biography

Maréchal Marie Edme Patrice Maurice de MacMahon, marquis de MacMahon, duc de Magenta

1820: Petit Séminaire des Marbres, Autun
1823: collège royal Saint-Louis, today lycée Saint-Louis, Paris
October 23rd,1825: Ecole spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr
October 01st, 1827-1829: sous-lieutenant, Ecole d’application d’état-major, detached to the 4e Régiment de Hussards
1830: deployed in Algeria as sous-lieutenant, 20e Régiment d’Infanterie de Ligne - capture of Algiers
November 24th,1830: expédition in the Atlas, battle of the Thenia Mouzaïa
1832: Ten days' campaign - siege of the citadel of Anvers.
1833: promoted to capitaine
1836: deployed again in Algéria
1837: WIA during the siege of Constantine
1840: WIA and promoted to chef d'escadrons
May 1841: deployed in Algéria as chef, 10e Bataillon de Chasseurs à Pied
May 25th,1841: battle of the Thenia Bab el-Thaza
December 31st,1842: promoted to lieutenant-colonel, 2e Régiment Etranger, Légion étrangère
1843-1845: chef de corps, 2e Régiment Etranger, Légion étrangère
October 14th,1844-October 17th,1844: fightings at Chaab el Gitta and Aïn Kebira
December 1845: promoted to colonel, commandant, 41e Régiment d’Infanterie de Ligne, Marnia
January 1848: chef, subdivision de Tlemcen
June 12th, 1848: promoted to général de brigade
1849: chef d’état-major, province d’Oran, Algeria
March 1852: commandant, division de Constantine
July 1852: promoted to général de division
1855: commandant, 1re Division d’Infanterie, 2e Corps, Armée d’Orient - campaign in Crimea
September 1855: captured the tower of Malakoff during the siege of Sébastopol
1856: sénateur, declined the higher command of the Army
1856: deployed in Algeria
1857: WIA at Icheriden, Kabylia, Algeria
1859: battle of Magenta, campaign in Italy
1859: promoted to maréchal de France and made Duke of Magenta
1861: represented France during the coronation of Wilhelm I King of Prussia
1864: gouverneur général d’Algérie
1870: resigned
July 1870: defeated many times in Alsace and Sedan - Franco-prussian war
August 1870: WIA at Sedan
September 01st,1870: severely WIA at Sedan
September 02nd, 1870: captured at Sedan and Prussian POW
March 15th, 1871: released
March 1871: head of the regular Army aka « arméee versaillaise » during the French civil war "Commune de Paris", Paris Commune
May 1873: elected président de la République
January 1879: resigned
1887-1893: director Société de Secours aux Blessés Militaires (S.S.B.M.) later renamed Croix-Rouge française