Gustave Paul Cluseret
Gustave Paul Cluseret was a French soldier and politician who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and Delegate for War during the Paris Commune.
Cluseret was born onJune 1823 in Suresnes, HautsdeSeine. In 1841 he entered the SaintCyr military academy, and was commissioned in the French Army in 1843. He was made captain of the 23rd Mobile Guard battalion following the February revolution of 1848, and participated in the suppression of the June Days Uprising which was to later earn him hostility in certain socialist quarters. His support for an antiBonapartist demonstration onJanuary 1849 saw him demoted from command of his battalion, and he fled to London after LouisNapolon Bonapartes December 1851 coup.
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