Bosquet, Marie

JOSEPH, ( bos - kai ',) a French general, B. at Pau, 1810. In 1829 he entered the Polytechnic School, and in 1833 became a sub-lieutenant in the artillery. In 1835 he went with his regiment to Algeria, where he began to distinguish himself. Between 1836 and 1848 he had pa ed through the succe ive ranks of captain, chef-de-bataillon, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel, when, in that year, he was appointed by the republican government, general of brigade. In 1854 the emperor Napoleon III. raised him to the rank of general of division, and enrolled him in the staff of the army of Marshal St. Arnaud. He was with the French army in the Crimea, where he greatly distinguished himself, and was wounded in the a ault on the Malakoff tower at the siege of Sebastopol. In 1856, he was made a marshal of France, and a senator. In 1859 he was appointed to a command in the war against Austria. D. 1862.