Achille François Bazaine

François Achille Bazaine (13 February, 1811 - 23 September, 1888); described by some as one of the most colourful characters in French military history, Achille Bazaine was a French General and from 1864, a Marshal of France who, after distinguished service (39 years of which 35 were in campaigns) during the Second French Empire under Napoleon III, was sentenced to death for his surrender of the fortress city of Metz and his army of 140,000 men to the Prussians on 27 October 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War. This sentence was commuted to 20 years imprisonment in exile, from which he subsequently escaped. He eventually settled in Spain where he died aged 77 in 1888.
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