Achille Baraguey d'Hilliers
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Louis-Achille Baraguey d'Hilliers, 1st Comte Baraguey d'Hilliers, was a Marshal of France and politician.
Portrait by Charles-Philippe Larivière, 1857
The "Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis" was the popular name for a French army mobilized in 1823 by the Bourbon King of France, Louis XVIII, to help the Spanish Bourbon royalists restore King Ferdi
Achille Baraguey d'Hilliers
…Marshal Marmont at the Battle of Leipzig, where he lost his left hand. Promoted to captain in 1815, he fought at Quatre Bras. In 1823, he served in the campaign to restore Bourbon power in Spain, where he remained until 1825. He distinguished himself in Algeria, where he was promoted to colonel after the capture of Algiers in 1830. In 1834…
Attack and capture of the entrenchments in front of La Coruña by Bourke's division, 15 July 1823 by Hippolyte Lecomte, 1828
Louis Antoine d'Artois, Duke of Angoulême (1775–1844), son of the future Charles X of France, fought on behalf of Louis XVIII during the French intervention in the Spanish Civil War.
The Duke of Angoulême at the Taking of Trocadero by Paul Delaroche, 1828.
Painting by Carle Vernet depicting the successful French siege of Pamplona