Ripley, G: New American Cyclopaedia, Vol. 4

Excerpt from The New American Cyclopaedia, Vol. 4: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge; Brownson-ChartresBruat, Amman earns, a ench admi ral, born at Colmar, 17 96, died in 1855. In 1843 he was governor of the Marquesas islands. In 1848, after having, under the administration of Cavaignac, officiated for a short time as prefect of the port cculon, he was appointed governor of Martinique and commander of the naval depot in the Antilles, of which he became mor general, March 12, 1849. In 1852 he s a member of the board of admiralty, and in the following year commander-ia-chiefof the ocean squadron. In 1854 he served in the ¿eet in the B ack sea as vice-admiral, under Admiral Hame lin, and took an active part in the first bom bardment of Sebastopol. On Dec. 8 he took the place of Hamelin, and was on the point of returning to France when, afier leaving the port of Messina, he died of the cholera.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.