Bosquet, Marie Joseph, a marshal of France, born in 1810, at 
Pau, in the department of Basses Pyrénées. He entered the 
polytechnic school of Paris in 1829, the military school at Metz in 
1831, became lieutenant of artillery in 1833, and in that capacity 
went to Algeria with the 10th regiment of artillery, in 1834. There 
on one occasion, when a small French detachment found itself in a 
very critical position, the commanding officer being at a loss how 
to disengage his troops, young Bosquet stepped forward and 
proposed a plan which led to the total discomfiture of the enemy. 
He was appointed lieutenant in 1836, captain in 1839, major in 
1842, lieut.-colonel in 1845, colonel, and soon after, under the 
auspices of the republican government, general of brigade, in 
1848. During the campaign of Kabylia in 1851," he was wounded, 
at the head of his brigade, while storming the defile of Monagal. 
His promotion to the rank of general of division was put off in 
consequence of his reserve toward Louis Napoleon, but when 
troops were sent to the war in Turkey” he obtained the command 
of the second division. 

At the battle of the Alma‘ he executed the flanking attack of the 
French right wing upon the Russian left, with a speed and energy 
praised by the Russians themselves, and even succeeded in 
bringing his artillery through pathless and apparently impractica- 
ble ravines up to the plateau. It must, however, be added that on 
this occasion his own numerical force greatly surpassed that of the 

enemy. At Balaklava he hastened to disengage the English right 
wing, so that the remainder of the English light cavalry was 
enabled to retreat under the cover of his troops, while the 
Russians were compelled to stop their pursuit.'” At Inkermann '” 
he was ready early in the morning to support the English with 3 
battalions and 2 batteries. This offer being declined, he posted as 
reserves, in the rear of the English right wing, 3 French brigades, 
with 2 of which, at 11 o’clock, he advanced to the line of battle, 
thus forcing the Russians to fall back. But for this succor, the 
English would have been completely destroyed, since they had all 
their troops engaged and no more reserves to draw upon, while 
the Russians had 16 battalions not yet touched. As chief of the 
corps destined to cover the allied forces on the slope of the 
Tchernaya, Bosquet constantly distinguished himself by quickness, 
vigilance, and activity. He took part in the storming of the 
Malakoff,'* and after that event was made a marshal, and in 1856 
a senator.