GENERAL BOURBAKI.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 745, 3 December 1870, Page 3

GENERAL BOURBAKI.

The following particulars regarding General Bourbaki's career are given by a Glasgow paper:—Charles Denis Souter Bourbaki is a Frenchman of Greek extraction, his father having taken refuge in France under the First Napoleon, and rendered him valuable services. The son was born in Paris in April, 1816, and at the age of 20 became a lieutenant of Zouaves, joining the African foreign legion, the gathering of all the dare-devils in Europe, two years later. His services in Algeria it would be in vain to enumerate, for their name is legion. In 1854 he became general of brigade, and served in the Crimean war; and at Alma, lnkermann.andthe assault upon Sebastopol he distinguished himself by his desperate valour and military skill. In the Italian campaign, at the head of his Algerian troops, he added fresh laurels to his name, and at the outbreak of the present war was appointed to command the Imperial Guard, and is reported to have been wounded in one of the late engagements. A blunt but honest soldier, his reputation stands very high in the French army, and many grumblings have been heard that such a tried commander was not entrusted with a more important command, instead of dangling about Metz with the reserve. General Bourbaki's sister, Madame Lebreton, is the secretary of the Empress, and was her sole attendant in her flight from Paris to Hastings.