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PELISSIER, AIMABLE See also:JEAN JACQUES (1794-1864) , See also:duke of Malakoff, See also:marshal of See also:France, was See also:born on the 6th of See also:November 1794 at Maromme (See also:Seine Inferieure), of a See also:family of prosperous artisans or See also:yeoman, his See also:father being employed in a See also:powder-See also:magazine. After attending the military See also:college of La See also:Fleche and the See also:special school of St Cyr, he in 1815 entered the See also:army as sub-See also:lieutenant in an See also:artillery See also:regiment. A brilliant examination in 1819 secured his See also:appointment to the See also:staff. He served as aide-de-See also:camp in the See also:Spanish See also:campaign of 1823, and in the expedition to the Morea in 1828-29. In 183o he took See also:part in the expedition to See also:Algeria, and on his return was promoted to the See also:rank of chef d'escadron. After some years' staff service in See also:Paris he was again sent to Algeria as See also:chief of staff of the See also:province of See also:Oran with the rank of lieutenant-See also:colonel, and remained there till the See also:Crimean See also:War, taking a prominent part in many important operations. The severity of his conduct in suffocating a whole Arab tribe in the Dahra or Dahna caves, near Mustaganem, where they had taken See also:refuge (See also:June 18, 1845), awakened such indignation in See also:Europe that Marshal See also:Soult, the See also:minister of war, publicly expressed his regret; but Marshal Bugeaud, the See also:governor-See also:general of Algeria, not only gave it his approval, but secured for Pelissier the rank of general of See also:brigade, which he held till 185o, when he was promoted general of See also:division. After the battles of See also:October and November 1854 before See also:Sevastopol, Pelissier was sent to the See also:Crimea, where on the 16th of May 1855 he succeeded Marshal See also:Canrobert as See also:commander-in-chief of the See also:French forces before Sevastopol (see CRIMEAN WAR). His command was marked by relentless pressure of the enemy and unalterable determination to conduct the campaign without interference from Paris. His perseverance was crowned with 2 The See also:legend was commonly believed in the See also:middle ages. See also:Epiphanius, See also:bishop of See also:Constantia, in his See also:Physiologus (1588), writes that the See also:female See also:bird, in cherishing her See also:young, wounds them with loving, and pierces their sides, and they See also:die. After three days the male See also:pelican comes and finds them dead, and his See also:heart is pained.

He smites his own See also:

side, and as he stands over the wounds of the dead young ones the See also:blood trickles down, and thus are they made alive again. The pelican " in his piety "—i.e. in this pious See also:act of reviving his offspring—was a See also:common subject for 15th-See also:century See also:emblem books; it became a See also:symbol of self-See also:sacrifice, a type of See also:Christian redemption and of the Eucharistic See also:doctrine. The See also:device was adopted by Bishop See also:Fox in 1516 for his new college of Corpus Christi, See also:Oxford.—[H. CH.l success in the storming of the Malakoff on the 8th of See also:September. On the 12th he was promoted to be marshal. On his return to Paris he was named senator, created duke of Malakoff (See also:July 22, 1856), and rewarded with a See also:grant of 1oo,000 francs per annum. From See also:March 1858 to May 18J9 he was French See also:ambassador in See also:London, whence,he was recalled to take command of the army of observation on the See also:Rhine. In the same See also:year he became See also:grand See also:chancellor of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour. In 186o he was appointed governor-general of Algeria, and he died there on the 22nd of May 1864. See Marbaud, Le Marechal Pilissier (1863); Castille, Portraits historiques, 2nd See also:series (1859).

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