Camille Alphonse Trézel
| Camille Alphonse Trézel | |
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| Born |
5 January 1780 Paris |
| Died | 11 April 1860 (aged 80) Paris |
| Allegiance | France |
| Years of service | 1801–1856 |
| Rank | Major-general |
| Battles/wars |
Battle of Ligny Battle of Macta |
| Awards | Legion of Honour (Grand Officer) |
| Other work | Minister for War |
Camille Alphonse Trézel (5 January 1780, Paris – 11 April 1860, Paris) was a French général de division, Minister for War and peer of France during the July Monarchy. He was Assistant Chief of the General Staff on the Morea expedition, and served in the 1830s in the French conquest of Algeria, where he suffered a disastrous defeat at the Battle of Macta.
In 1801, Camille Alphonse Trezel entered as a draftsman in the office of the war and obtained in 1803 the rank of lieutenant in the body of topographical engineers. Posted in 1804 to Army of Holland, he was promoted the following year to assistant engineer geographer. After the Polish campaign, as a lieutenant, he was appointed acting aide to General Gardanne, in the embassy of France to Persia (1807–1808); aide to General Armand Charles Guilleminot on his return in 1809; he was secretary of the Committee on Delimitation of Illyria, was promoted to captain (1810), and transferred to the Spanish army. Recalled to Germany in late 1811, he worked at the surveying Hanseatic department, on the campaign to Rome, became lieutenant-commander (1813), Chief of Staff of the 13 ((e)) Division, and worked with the defense of Mainz.
For Hundred Days, he was called to the Grand Army, and showed such bravery in the Battle of Ligny, where a shot he took the left eye, he was promoted to brigadier general by the decree of 5 July 1815. This appointment was canceled the following month by the Bourbons, and he resumed his place in the headquarters in 1818 as a colonel, and was attached to the commission of delimitation of the East (1816–1818), then the filing of war (1822). He distinguished himself again in the Spanish Civil War of 1820–1823, and was a member of the advisory committee of staff and secretary of the committee reorganization. He joined the Morea expedition as Deputy Chief of Staff (1828), and was promoted to field marshal in 1829.
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