Advertisement

Gen Gustave Paul Cluseret

Advertisement

Gen Gustave Paul Cluseret Veteran

Birth
Suresnes, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France
Death
23 Aug 1900 (aged 77)
Toulon, Departement du Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Burial
Suresnes, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France GPS-Latitude: 48.8717105, Longitude: 2.2247415
Memorial ID
View Source
Brigadier General in the United Stares Army during the American Civil War serving 1861-1863.
----------
Graduate of military school at Paris, served in North Africa, left to volunteer with Garibaldi in Italy 1860, then Civil War service, a key instigator in the 1864 effort to replace Lincoln as the Republican nominee with John C. Fremont. After the Civil War, a Radical Republican, and an active leader of the Fenians. Returning to France, he joined the International Workingmen's Association, attempted to spark local insurrections at Lyon and Marseille during the Franco-Prussian War, became the Minister of War for the Paris Commune of 1871, driven into exile with its repression, returned and served as a Socialist in the French National Assembly.
Brigadier General in the United Stares Army during the American Civil War serving 1861-1863.
----------
Graduate of military school at Paris, served in North Africa, left to volunteer with Garibaldi in Italy 1860, then Civil War service, a key instigator in the 1864 effort to replace Lincoln as the Republican nominee with John C. Fremont. After the Civil War, a Radical Republican, and an active leader of the Fenians. Returning to France, he joined the International Workingmen's Association, attempted to spark local insurrections at Lyon and Marseille during the Franco-Prussian War, became the Minister of War for the Paris Commune of 1871, driven into exile with its repression, returned and served as a Socialist in the French National Assembly.

Sponsored by Ancestry

Advertisement

  • Maintained by: Eternal Peace
  • Originally Created by: Andrew
  • Added: Mar 3, 2012
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86203572/gustave_paul-cluseret: accessed ), memorial page for Gen Gustave Paul Cluseret (13 Jun 1823–23 Aug 1900), Find a Grave Memorial ID 86203572, citing Suresnes Old Cemetery, Suresnes, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France; Maintained by Eternal Peace (contributor 48793983).