People from Chambery - Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy, Aymon, Count of Savoy, Boniface, Count of Savoy, Philip II, Duke of Savoy, Philibert I (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy, Aymon, Count of Savoy, Boniface, Count of Savoy, Philip II, Duke of Savoy, Philibert I, Duke of Savoy, Benoit de Boigne, Joseph de Maistre, Amedee-Francois Frezier, Joseph Colon Trabotto, Mathieu Bozzetto, Michel de Certeau, Xavier de Maistre, Gautier Capucon, Federico Luigi, Conte Menabrea, Bona of Savoy, Antipope Felix V, Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy, Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons, Charles Pellegrini, Cesar Vichard de Saint-Real, Mickael Forest, Jean-Claude Blanc, Rene Gardien, Jean-Pierre Amat, Olivier Giroud, Michel Aglietta, Yann Barthes, Francois Sevez, Fabrice Fiorese, Simone Arturo Saint-Bon, Louis Charles Trabut, Myriam Baverel, Alexis B uf, Jean Mamy, Jean-Baptiste Bailly, Didier Mollard, Renaud Dutreil, Dominique Dord, Jean-Pierre Vial, Madeleine Reberioux. Excerpt: Benoit Leborgne, better known as Count Benoit de Boigne or General Count de Boigne (8 March 1751 - 21 June 1830), was a military adventurer from the Alps of French Savoy, who made his fortune and name in India. He was also named president of the general council of the French departement of Mont-Blanc by Napoleon I. The son of shopkeepers, Leborgne was a career military man. He was trained in European regiments and then became a success in India in the service of Mahadaji Sindhia of Gwalior in central India, who ruled over the Maratha Empire. Sindhia entrusted him with the creation and organization of an army. He became its general, and trained and commanded a force of nearly 100,000 men organized on the European model, which allowed the Maratha Empire to dominate north India and be the last native state of Hindustan to resist the British Empire. Along with his career in the army, Benoit de Boigne also worked in commerce and administration. Among other titles, he became a jaghir which gave him enormous land ...