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    Louis Henri, comte de Gueydon (22 November 1809 – 1 December 1886) was a vice admiral in the French Navy, and the first governor of Algeria under the...
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    Louis XV of France. A military family (14 members of the house of de Mac Mahon were in the Army), they settled in Autun, Burgundy, at the Chateau de Sully...
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    1841, and to maréchal de camp in 1844, the latter on the request of Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale himself, son of King Louis Philippe. As he rose through...
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    armor and had roofs 23 millimetres (0.9 in) thick. Gueydon was named in honour of Louis Henri de Gueydon, first governor of Algeria under the 3rd Republic...
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    Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière (5 September 1806 – 11 September 1865) was a French general. Juchault de Lamoricière was born in Nantes....
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    governmental systems. (Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office) Shortly after the July Monarchy of Louis Philippe I was overthrown in the Revolution...
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    The French conquest of Algeria (French: Conquête de l'Algérie par la France; Arabic: الغزو الفرنسي للجزائر) took place between 1830 and 1903. In 1827,...
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    Vuillermoz Alexis Lambert Louis Henri de Gueydon Antoine Chanzy Albert Grévy Louis Tirman Jules Cambon Auguste Loze Louis Lépine Édouard Laferrière Charles...
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  • July 1856 in place of Louis Henri de Gueydon. On 12 December 1856 he handed over to governor Armand Louis Joseph Denis de Fitte de Soucy. Lagrange was made...
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    Constantine. He joined the National Liberation Front in 1955 and adopted the nom de guerre Houari Boumediene. He received the rank of colonel and in 1960 became...
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