BOSQUET, PIERRE FRANgOIS JOSEPH (1810 1860, French marshal, was born at Mont de Marsan, Landes, on Nov. 8 181o, and died at Toulouse, Feb. 5 1861. He entered the artillery in 1833 and served in Algeria with great distinction from 1834 to 1853, when he returned to France a general of division. Bosquet was among the earliest chosen to serve in the Crimean War, and at the battle of the Alma his division led the French attack. When the Anglo-French troops formed the siege of Sevastopol, Bosquet's corps of two divisions protected them against interruption. His timely intervention at Inkerman (Nov. 5 1854) secured the victory for the allies. During 1855 Bosquet's corps occupied the right wing of the besieging armies opposite the Mamelon and Malakov. He himself led his corps at the storming of the Mamelon (June 7), and at the grand assault of Sept. 8 he was in command of the whole of the storming troops. In the struggle 'for the Malakov he received a serious wound. In 1855 Bosquet became a senator and a marshal of France.