Lamoricière

Lamoricière, CHRISTOPHE LÉON LOUIS JUCHAULT DE, a French general, was born at Nantes, 6th February 1806, entered the army as an engineer in 1826, and saw active service in Algeria, taking part in nearly all the military events which occurred in that country between 1833 and 1847. It was through his energy chiefly that the war against Abd-el-Kader was brought to a successful end by the capture of that chief in 1847. In June 1848 Lamoricière commanded the attack on the barricades in Paris, and quelled the anarchic tumults of the Socialists. He was war-minister during the government of Cavaignac; but was arrested on the occasion of the coup d'état of 2d December 1851, and banished from France. When the Italian war of independence threatened the safety of the pope, Lamoricière proceeded to Rome in 1860, and was appointed by Pius IX. commander of the papal troops. He was, however, defeated at Castelfidardo by the Sardinian general, Cialdini, on 18th September, and on the 29th capitulated at Ancona. He died near Amiens on 10th September 1865. See Lives by Keller (2 vols. Paris, 1873; new ed. 1891) and Rastoul (1894).