Charles de Lorencez, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French general
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Charles de Lorencez
- Charles Ferdinand Latrille, Comte de Lorencez (23 May 1814 –16 July 1892) was a French Army general under Emperor Maximilian of Mexico during the 19th century.
- He was a relative of the Empress Charlotte, who was the only daughter of King Leopold I, King of the Belgians and wife of Emperor Maximilian. Lorencez was born in Paris to a noble family.
- He studied at the military academy of Saint-Cyr from 1830 to 1832, graduating as a third lieutenant.
- He served first in Algeria, where he was promoted to the rank of colonel in 1852.
- In 1855, at the Battle of Malakoff during the Crimean War, he won a commission to major general. Latrille de Lorencez then served in the French intervention in Mexico.
- Most notably, he fought at the Battle of Puebla, on 5 May 1862, where the French troops under his command were defeated by Mexican troops led by General Ignacio Zaragoza.
- Latrille de Lorencez left Veracruz on 17 December 1862. He later fought during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870.
- His contraction of yellow fever in Mexico compelled him to retire from active service two years later.
- He was survived by his wife the Comtesse Emilia Alvarez de Perez and his daughter the Comtesse Emilia Latrille de Lorencez.
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