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SEBASTIANI, See also:HORACE See also:FRANCOIS BASTIEN, See also:COUNT (1772–1851) See also:French See also:marshal and diplomatist. Of Corsican See also:birth, he was in his See also:early years banished from his native See also:island during the See also:civil disturbances, and in 1789 he entered the French See also:army. In 1793, as a French See also:lieutenant, he took See also:part in the See also:war in his native island, after which he served in the Army of the See also:Alps. He became chef de See also:brigade in 1799. Attached by birth and service to the future See also:Emperor See also:Napoleon, he took part in the Coup d'Etat of 18th See also:Brumaire (9th See also:November 1799). He was See also:present at See also:Marengo in 1800. See also:Sebastian next appears in his first See also:diplomatic See also:post, in See also:Turkey and See also:Egypt (1802). Promoted See also:general of brigade in 1803, he served in 1805 in the first of the See also:great See also:campaigns of the See also:Empire. His conduct at See also:Austerlitz (2nd See also:December), where he was wounded, won him promotion to the See also:rank of general of See also:division. Sebastiani soon returned to See also:Constantinople as French See also:Ambassador. As ambassador he induced the See also:Porte to declare war on See also:Russia, as a soldier he directed with success the See also:defence of Constantinople against the See also:British See also:squadron of See also:Admiral (See also:Sir) J. T.

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Duckworth. But the deposition of the See also:Sultan See also:Selim III. put an end to French diplomatic success in this See also:quarter, and Sebastiani was recalled in See also:April 1807 (see La Politique orientate de Napoleon: Sebastiani et See also:Gardane, by E. Driault, See also:Paris, 1905). He was at this See also:time made Count of the Empire. As the See also:commander of a See also:corps he served in the See also:Peninsular War, but his See also:cavalry See also:genius did not shine in the 566 the See also:teeth as a weapon of defence and deserves the See also:character of ferocity generally attributed to it would appear to be rather questionable. See also:Sea-wolves are inhabit-ants of the See also:northern seas of both hemispheres, one (A. See also:lupus) being See also:common on the coasts of Scandinavia and See also:North See also:Britain, and two in the seas See also:round See also:Iceland and See also:Green-See also:land. Two others See also:SEAWRACK laborious and painful operations against the careful See also:English and the ubiquitous guerrilleros. In the more congenial grinds guerre of Russia and See also:Germany he was in his See also:element, and at See also:Smolensk, See also:Borodino and See also:Leipzig he did brilliant service. He accepted the Restoration See also:government in 1814, but rejoined his old See also:leader on his return from See also:Elba. After See also:Waterloo he retired into See also:England for a time, but soon returned, and was placed on See also:half-pay. From 1819 onwards he was a prominent member of the Chamber of Deputies. He held the posts of See also:Minister of Marine, and, later, of See also:Foreign Affairs.

In this latter capacity he was the author of the historic saying " See also:

Order reigns at See also:Warsaw." In 1832 he was a Minister of See also:State without See also:port-See also:folio, next See also:year ambassador at See also:Naples, and from 1835 to 1840 was ambassador to Great Britain. On his retirement from this post he was made Marshal of See also:France. He was a -brilliant social figure in Paris. His last years were clouded by the See also:death of his daughter at the hands of her See also:husband, the duc de Praslin. He died at Paris on the 21st of See also:July 1851. His See also:brother, See also:JEAN See also:ANDRE TIBURCE SEBASTIANI (1786-1871), entered the army in 1806, served in the See also:Peninsula from 1809 to 1811, and in the great campaigns of Russia, Germany, France and See also:Belgium. He took part in the war of See also:Greek See also:independence under General Maison. In 1842, now lieutenant-general and peer of France, he was appointed to command the military division of Paris. But he proved incapable of dealing with the Revolution of 1848, and the See also:remainder of his See also:life was spent in retirement in See also:Corsica.

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