Alfred Jean Eginhard Chabannes of Trains

See also: Chabannes

Alfred Jean Eginhard Chabannes of Trains , born with London, the January 13rd 1799, general French.

As of the First Restoration, though very young person, it entered the bodyguards, Compagnie of Luxembourg, and accompanied the Bourbon S during the emigration by the Hundred Days.

To the Second Restoration, it entered in the capacity as lieutenant the hunters to horse Allier, and was named there captain. It passed with this rank, in 1824, in the hunters with horse of the royal guard, it fulfilled the functions there of ordering captain, when burst the Révolution of July 1830. Mr. de Chabannes took share with the events of Paris, and belonged to the troops which covered the retirement of Charles X beyond Rambouillet.

The August 3rd, when in the plains of Maintenon the royal guard had been untied of its oath of fidelity, when several of the bodies were already in full dissolution, and that certain chiefs sought to involve the troops with new demonstrations in favor of Charles X, Mr. de Chabannes was the first to proclaim in its regiment that new duties were imposed on the army, and that it had with the fatherland. The almost whole regiment followed its example and returned to Melun in the best order under the command of the lieutenant-colonel Bureaux of Pusy. By this act, Mr. de Chabannes contributed to prevent the dispersion of this body, and to preserve intact at the Stall the material which had been entrusted to him.

After the dismissal of the royal guard, Mr. de Chabannes entered the rows of the national guard of Paris, and devoted his leisures to the reserve training of the 1st legion of which it formed part, and in which it was elected lieutenant in first. In August 1831, to the first threats of war, it went to the border Northern, armed and equipped with its expenses, and was allowed like volunteer in the 12th regiment of line. It was pomegranate in this body, when with Saint-Trond (Belgium) it accepted opinion of his setting in activity with the staff of the army. The following year it was attached to the house of the king in the capacity as aide-de-camp (major).

Passed successively with 2nd of dragons and with 3rd of the hunters of Africa, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, Mr. de Chabannes with the order of the army to have killed with its hand two Arab riders in a load with the business of the April 21st 1833 was quoted. It was again quoted for its control in the day of the September 12th according to, and the November 20th 1834, with an avant-garde of 400 horses, was beaten and to have destroyed a body of regular troops of the Bey de Constantine of more than 1.000 men.

Mr. de Chabannes, attache with the person of the Duke of Nemours, at the time from both Forwardings of Constantine, was quoted honourably in the reports/ratios of the marshal Clausel, and following the second forwarding, was appointed colonel of dragons.

Promoted with the Brigadier general rank of the April 20th 1845, and commander of Legion-in Honneur, it was allowed with the retirement.

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