Alexandre Charles Perrégaux

Alexandre Charles Perrégaux (born in Neuchâtel on 21 October 1791 and died in the Mediterranean Sea on 6 November 1837) was a French officer who participated to the French conquest of Algeria.[2]

This article is about Perregaux. For other uses, see Perregaux (disambiguation).
Alexandre Charles Perrégaux
Birth nameAlexandre Charles Perrégaux
Born21 October 1791
Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Died6 November 1837
Mediterranean Sea
Buried
Cagliari, Italy
AllegianceFrance
BranchFrench Army
Years of service1817-1837
RankMaréchal de camp
Battles/warsFrench conquest of Algeria
Awards
Spouse(s)Cécile de Pourtalès (death 1830)[1]

Family

Alexandre Charles Perrégaux is the second son of the named "Charles Albert Henri Perregaux" (1757-1831) who was state councilor and more tazrd colonel inspector of militias and knight of the red eagle.[3]

He had married in Neuchâtel on 5 December 1825 the named Cécile de Pourtalès, born on 9 September 1904 and died in Paris on 24 March 1830.[4]

Caught in the military sights of expeditions to North Africa, He left no children or posterity.

Injury
Main article: Siege of Constantine
See also: Expedition of the Col des Beni Aïcha

Alexandre Charles Perrégaux was on 12 October 1837 in the encirclement and siege of Constantine with General Charles-Marie Denys de Damrémont (born 1783) when the latter was killed by a cannonball.[5]

Seeing Damrémont, the general-in-chief of the expedition, fall dead, Perrégaux rushed towards him to rescue him and take his body away, and while bending down on his body he received a bullet which hit him and which went through his nose and sank deep enough into the palate of her mouth.[6]

He fell unconscious and wounded on the dead body of the one who had been his leader and his friend for years at the start of the colonial conquest of Algeria.[7]

Perregaux was rushed back by his soldiers to the town of Annaba, and he was embarked on a boat to take him through the Mediterranean Sea to France in an attempt to save and heal him there.[8]

Death

General Perrégaux was unable to reach France by sea in order to extract the bullet that wounded her, by means of a surgical operation and thus save her life.[1]

He succumbed to his wounds and thus died during the Mediterranean crossing before his arrival in France.[9]

The boat carrying him docked in a port on the island of Sardinia, and he was buried in a cemetery in the city of Cagliari.[10]

See also

Bibliography
  • Valentin Devoisins (1838). Recueil de documents sur l'expédition et la prise de Constantine. Paris: Joseph Corréard, Éditeur. pp. 25–29.

References
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