Forey

Elie Frederic, a French =e} officer; born in Paris, France, Jan. 10, 1804. When the expedition to Mexico was decided upon in 1861, Forey received the command of the French troops. After several sanguinary engagements, he attacked and stormed the strong post of Puebla, thereby throwing open the road to the city of Mexico. For this service he was made Marshal of France, when he resigned his command to General Bagaine, and returned home, receiving the command of the 2d army corps, in 1863. He received the Grand Cro of the Legion of Honor in 1859, and was elected to the senate in that yer: Died in Paris, France, June 20, 1873. Forfeiture is a punishment annexed to some illegal act or negligence in the owner of real property, whereby he loses all his interest therein, and it goes to the party injured, as a recompense for the wrong which either he alone or the public with him has sustained. It is almost unknown in the United States.