Louis Marie Charles Hurault de Sorbée
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Louis Marie Charles Hurault de Sorbée (born 17 April 1786, Reims) was a French soldier. He fought at the Battle of Waterloo
and the French capture of Algiers
and was made a colonel of his regiment in the wake of the July Revolution
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Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815 near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands...
and the French capture of Algiers
French Algeria
French Algeria lasted from 1830 to 1962, under a variety of governmental systems. From 1848 until independence, the whole Mediterranean region of Algeria was administered as an integral part of France, much like Corsica and Réunion are to this day. The vast arid interior of Algeria, like the rest...
and was made a colonel of his regiment in the wake of the July Revolution
July Revolution
The French Revolution of 1830, also known as the July Revolution or in French, saw the overthrow of King Charles X of France, the French Bourbon monarch, and the ascent of his cousin Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orléans, who himself, after 18 precarious years on the throne, would in turn be overthrown...
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Source
- "Louis Marie Charles Hurault de Sorbée", in Charles Mullié, Biographie des célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850, 1852