Baraguay d'Hilliers

Baraguay d'Hilliers, LOUIS, general, was born at Paris in 1764, and, receiving an appointment in the army of Italy from Napoleon, shared all the success of the campaigns of 1796-97. Made a general of division and commandant of Venice, in 1798 he accompanied the expedition to Egypt; and afterwards successively held appointments on the Rhine, in the Tyrol, and in Catalonia. He commanded a division in the Russian campaign of 1812, but during the retreat incurred the displeasure of Napoleon; and on 6th January 1813 he died at Berlin of grief and exhaustion.—ACHILLE, his son, was born at Paris in 1795, and, entering the army in 1812, next year lost his left hand at the battle of Leipzig. He held a number of appointments up to 1854, when he received the command of the Baltic expedition; and on the capture of Bomarsund, he was made a marshal. In the Italian campaign of 1859 he distinguished himself at Solferino; and during 1870 he was for a brief time commander of Paris. He died at Amélie-les-Bains, 6th June 1878.