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Lazare Camot (1753-1823) was a French general and politician.

Short Biography:

A member of the National Convention in the French Revolution, he organized the armies of the republic.

He was war minister 1800-1801 and minister of the interior in 1815 under Napoleon.

His work on fortification, De la difense de places fortes in 1810, became a military textbook.

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Lazare Carnot was a French politician, engineer, and mathematician. read more...

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