Charles Auguste Frossard
Charles Auguste Frossard (born August 26, 1807 in Versailles , † August 25, 1875 in Châteauvillain , Haute-Marne department ) was a French general .
Life
Frossard entered the genius and artillery school in Metz in 1827 as a sous-lieutenant “the genius”, the technical corps of the time. He took part in the campaign in Belgium in 1831 and 1832 and went to Algeria as a captain in 1833 , where in December 1835 he defended Fort Clausel for four days against twenty-fold superior Arab forces.
Returning to France , Frossard was used in building the fortifications of Paris in 1840 . A few years later he was appointed Ordonnanzoffizier Ludwig Philipps and promoted to Coammandant in 1847 . During the siege of Rome by Nicolas Charles Victor Oudinot , Frossard was wounded in 1849, then remained in Rome as lieutenant-colonel and commander of the genius corps until the end of 1850. He was then second in command of the École polytechnique and promoted to colonel in 1852 . In 1853 he went to Oran as director of geniuses and in January 1855 at the outbreak of the Crimean War as a genius commander in the Orient Army . He led the siege work of the right wing in front of Sevastopol ( Fort Malakow ) and was then appointed general in May 1855. In the winter of 1855/56 he took over the management of the entire genius of the Orient Army and had the defense lines at Kamiesch Bay completed.
Frossard then returned to France, where he became a member of the fortification committee and then until the end of 1858 as Général de division chief of genius in Algeria. In the Italian campaign in 1859, Frossard was chief of geniuses in the army, had Casale fortified and became a grand officer of the Legion of Honor and adjutant to Emperor Napoleon III. appointed. From 1867 he was governor of the imperial prince.
When the Franco-Prussian War broke out in 1870, Frossard was given supreme command of the 2nd Army Corps of the Rhine Army and initiated the war on August 2, 1870 by attacking Saarbrücken . He then occupied the entrenched , very strong position on the heights of Spichern and defended it with great tenacity for eight hours at the Battle of Spichern on August 6th . Frossard later took part in the three great battles near Metz : August 14th, 16th and 18th. He was then trapped with thousands of officers during the German siege of Metz fortress . After the surrender , he was taken prisoner by Germany . After his release he became a member of the fortification committee in June 1871 and took part in the drafts for the new fortifications, as well as a member of the coastal defense commission.
From January 28, 1874 Frossard was President of the Fortification Committee and from June 1873 a member of the Upper War Council . Charles Auguste Frossard died on August 25, 1875, the day before his 68th birthday, in Chateau Villain, Haute-Marne.
literature
- Frossard, Charles Auguste . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 11 : Franciscans - Gibson . London 1910, p. 250 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
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| SURNAME | Frossard, Charles Auguste |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 26, 1807 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Versailles |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 25, 1875 |
| Place of death | Châteauvillain |