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Place of Birth: Penne, Occitania, France
About Jean Sarrazin
- Jean Sarrazin (15 August 1770 – 11 November 1848) was a French general during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Born at Penne, Sarrazin joined the dragoons at sixteen and was rapidly promoted after 1792.
- He became adjutant-general of the Army of Sambre-et-Meuse in Italy in 1794, and was promoted to the rank of brigadier on 23 August 1798.
- He was a leader of the French expedition to support the Irish rebels in 1798, and distinguished himself at the Battle of Castlebar.
- Although intelligent and brave, his career was several times set back by his irascibility and vanity. On 10 June 1810, Sarrazin went over to the British and revealed French weaknesses.
- Condemned in absentia to death by a conseil de guerre, he did not return to France until the Bourbon Restoration.
- He offered his services to Napoléon Bonaparte during the Hundred Days, but was thrown in prison.
- Pardoned in 1822, he went into exile in London and then Brussels, where he died.
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Valerian Gribayedoff
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| Alternative names | Valérien Gribayédoff | ||
| Description | Russian journalist and illustrator | ||
| Date of birth/death | 1858 | 1908 | |
| Location of birth/death | Kronstadt | Paris | |
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Image extracted from page 056 of The French Invasion of Ireland in '98. Leaves of unwritten history that tell of an heroic endeavour and a lost opportunity to throw off England's yoke, etc., by GRIBAYÈDOFF, Valerian. Original held and digitised by the British Library. Copied from Flickr.
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