Nicolae Dabija (general), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Huși, Vaslui County, Romania
About Nicolae Dabija (general)
- Nicolae Dabija (15 August 1837, Hu?i.
- Vaslui County, Moldavia – 1 December 1884, Paris) was a Romanian general and politician. Born in Hu?i, in 1837, he attended the Academia Mihaileana in Iasi.
- In 1858 he was sent to France to attend the Military School in Metz.
- After graduation, he returned to Romania, joining the army, initially with the artillery.His military career advanced, and in 1864 he was appointed subdirector of the artillery.
- He participated in the Romanian War of Independence (1877-1878), as commander of the Infantry Division Artillery, taking part in the battles of the Romanian Army at Plevna and Vidin.After the war, Col.
- Nicolae Dabija entered politics, being attracted by the liberal doctrine.
- He held several political and administrative functions in the governments that governed Romania after 1878: Minister of War (18 January - 10 July 1879), interim Minister of Finance (10-27 April 1881) and Minister of Public Works several times (24 October 1880 - 9 April 1881, 10 April - 8 June 1881, 9 June 1881 - 31 July 1884).The English company "Danube and Black Sea Railway Kustenge Harbor" built between 1856-1862 the Constan?a-Cernavoda railway through Dobrogea.
- Per the Treaty of Berlin (1878), Dobrogea was given to Romania, the English company requested the redemption of the railway by the Romanian state, demanding 18,752,706 golden lei.
- Dabija, as representative of the Romanian state, and the delegate of the English company signed on 9 November 1882, the repurchase agreement for the sum of 16,800,000 lei, ratified on 21 May 1882 by the Assembly of Deputies, and paid in a lump sum in 1882. In 1883 Nicolae Dabija was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General.
- But he died only one year later (1 December 1884) in Paris, aged 47.
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