Emmanuel Félix de Wimpffen

Emmanuel Félix de Wimpffen

Emmanuel Felix de Wimpffen (September 13, 1811 - February 26, 1884) was a French soldier. Entering the army from the military school of Saint-Cyr, he saw considerable active service in Algeria, and in 1840 became captain, in 1847 "chef de bataillon". He first earned marked distinction in the Crimean War as colonel of a Turco-Persian regiment, and his conduct at the storm of the Mamelon won him the grade of general of brigade.

In the campaign of 1859 he was with General MacMahon at the battle of Magenta at the head of a brigade of Guard Infantry, and again won promotion on the field of battle. Between this campaign and the Franco-Prussian War he was mainly employed in Algeria, and was not at first given a command in the ill-fated Army of the Rhine. But when the earlier battles revealed incapacity in the commander of the 5th corps, De Wimpifen was ordered to take it over, and was given a dormant commission appointing him to command the Army of Châlons in case of Marshal MacMahon's disablement. He only arrived at the front in time to rally the fugitives of the 5th corps, beaten at Beaumont, and to march them to Sedan.

In the disastrous Battle of Sedan of the 1st of September, MacMahon was soon wounded, and the senior officer, General Ducrot, assumed the command. Ducrot was beginning to withdraw the troops when Wimpffen produced his commission and countermanded the orders. In consequence it fell to him to negotiate the surrender of the whole French army.

After his release from captivity, he lived in retirement at Algiers, and died at Paris in 1884. His later years were occupied with polemical discussions on the surrender of Sedan, the responsibility for which was laid upon him.

He wrote, amongst other works, "Sedan" (1871), "La Situation de la France, et les reformes necessaires" (1873) and "La Nation armée" (1875).

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