Joseph Vinoy

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Joseph Vinoy
Général de Division
Battles/warsConquest of Algeria
Crimean War
Franco-Prussian War
AwardsLegion of Honour (Grand Chanceliers)

Joseph Vinoy (10 August 1803 – 27 April 1880) was a French soldier.

Biography

He originally intended to join the Church, but, after some years at a

Battle of Solférino.[1]

Retired on account of his age in 1865, he was recalled to active service on the outbreak of the

Louis Jules Trochu's resignation he was appointed to the supreme command, in which capacity he negotiated France's surrender.[1]

During the

Vinoy wrote several memoirs of the Franco-Prussian War: Operations de l'armée pendant le siege de Paris (1872); L'Armistice et la commune (1872); and L'Armée française (1873).[1]

The Municipality of Vinoy in Quebec, Canada, was named in his honour (since 1996 part of the Municipality of Chénéville).[2]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Chisholm 1911.
  2. ^ "Chénéville (Municipalité)" (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2009-01-08.

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