François Certain de Canrobert
François Marcellin Certain de Canrobert was a French Marshal. He demonstrated ability during the Second French Empire while participating in the Battle of Alma, the Battle of Magenta, the Battle of Solferino and the Battle of Gravelotte. A staunch supporter of Napoleon III, he became, under the French Third Republic, one of the leading figures in the Bonapartist party and chairman, from 1876 to 1894, of the Senate within the French parliamentary group "Call upon the people".
François Certain de Canrobert photographed by Nadar
Commemorative plaque honouring François Certain de Canrobert and Adolphe Niel in Carpenedolo.
The Eglantine Castle, built in the middle of the 19th century by Marshal Canrobert.
Alfred Lenoir, details of the Statue of Marshal Canrobert (1897) at Saint-Céré.
The Battle of the Alma took place during the Crimean War between an allied expeditionary force and Russian forces defending the Crimean Peninsula on 20 September 1854. The allies had made a surprise landing in Crimea on 14 September. The allied commanders, Maréchal Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud and Lord Raglan, then marched toward the strategically important port city of Sevastopol, 45 km (28 mi) away. Russian commander Prince Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov rushed his available forces to the last natural defensive position before the city, the Alma Heights, south of the Alma River.
Battle of the Alma by Eugene Lami
French troops at the Battle of the Alma
The Coldstream Guards at the Alma, by Richard Caton Woodville 1896