Bugeaud

Bugeaud, THOMAS, French marshal, was born at Limoges in 1784, and entering the army in his nineteenth year, showed such bravery during the Napoleonic campaigns as by 1814 earned him a colonelcy. Recalled from a fifteen years' retirement to active life by the July revolution of 1830, he was elected deputy for Perigueux, and soon gained Louis-Philippe's esteem; in 1836 was despatched to Algeria, where he distinguished himself against Abd-el-Kader; and in 1840 was appointed governor-general. The Zouaves owed their organisation to him. His victory at Isly in 1844 over the emperor of Morocco's forces gained him the title Duc d'Isly, and the year before he had received the marshal's bâton. In the revolution of February 1848 he commanded the army in Paris. He died of cholera in Paris, June 9, 1849. See his Memoirs by Count d'Ideville (Eng. trans. 2 vols. 1882); and Roches, Le Maréchal Bugeaud en Afrique (1885).