Jean-Baptiste-Adolphe Charras

French politician and military historian (1810–1865)
Portrait by Pierre Petit

Jean-Baptiste Adolphe Charras (7 January 1810 in Phalsbourg – 23 January 1865 in Basel) was a French military historian and minister.[citation needed] He was the author of Histoire de la Campagne de 1815.[1]

Lieutenant Colonel Charras rose rapidly within the military administration in 1848 with a series of promotions, becoming Secretary of the Defence Commission on 9 March, Under Secretary of State for War on 5 April, and Acting Minister of War on 11 May of that year.[2]

References

  1. ^ Clarke, Stephen (2015). How the French won Waterloo (or think they did). London: Century. p. 60. ISBN 9781780893082.
  2. ^ Revolution and reaction: 1848 and the Second French Republic. London: C. Helm. 1975. p. 155. ISBN 0-85664-204-5.

Further reading

  • Jenny, Adrian (1969). Jean-Baptiste Adolphe Charras und die politische Emigration nach de Staatsreich Louis-Napoleon Bonapartes. Basil and Stuttgart: Verlag von Hellsing und Lichtenhahn.
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