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Henri Jules
Bataille was the son of Captain Jean Pierre Bataille and Sophie Antoinette Garnier. Jean Pierre Bataille, born 14 January 1772 at Bourg-d’Oisans, was a cavalry captain who achieved the distinction of Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur and Ordre royal de la Couronne de Fer. He enlisted in
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of the 56th Line
Infantry Regiment on 8 August 1851. In 1853 he returned to Algeria to again serve with the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment, beginning another four-year stay in Algeria that lasted until September 1857 and during which he often took part in or led expeditions into the Algerian
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maneuver by committing his reserve. Judging the threat on the French left to be growing, Bataille on his own initiative detached a regiment to reinforce the left, and at the end of the day had to extract the elements of his division on the French right around
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on 7 February 1854 and was awarded the
Officer's Cross of the Legion of Honour on 12 June 1856. On 12 August 1857, shortly before leaving Algeria, he was promoted to
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cited him in a report for his leadership of the battalion. He received the Knight's Cross of the
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The Franco-Prussian War ended in
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under difficult circumstances as the French army pulled back from the battlefield.
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on 14–15 January 1797, he and three comrades took 116 prisoners, and he received a
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of 16 July – 26 November 1849, where we was wounded in the shoulder. He was
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on 18 August 1870. In danger of losing his life, he was transported to
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broke out in July 1870, Bataille was in command of the 2nd
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countryside. During this tour of duty in Algeria he became
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Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour (3 October 1871)
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Maison de la bonne presse, Paris, c 1890 (in French).
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