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Beauregard, who was supposed to attract recruits because of his victories early in the war and give Johnston a competent subordinate.
Gen. Beauregard arrived at Johnston's headquarters at Bowling Green on February 4, 1862 and was given overall command of Polk's force at the western end of Johnston's line at Columbus, Kentucky.
On March 1, Davis appointed General P. G. T. Beauregard to command all Confederate troops in the vicinity of Charleston, South Carolina, where state officials prepared to take possession of Fort Sumter ; Beauregard was to prepare his forces but avoid an attack on the fort.
At the end of the day, the Union Army was largely vulnerable, and subject to elimination by Beauregard, had he been able to continue the fight, but for the exhaustion of his troops.
Beauregard, in charge of Petersburg, was able to defend the city and Lee's veteran reinforcements arrived.
The depot was a warehouse on Beauregard Street, where the troops had stacked some 200 tons of shells and powder.
Beauregard at Manassas, where he was given command of a brigade of three Virginia regiments — the 1st, 11th, and 17th Virginia Infantry regiments.
Beauregard continued commanding these troops as the new First Corps under Gen. J. E. Johnston as it was joined by the Army of the Shenandoah on July 20, 1861, when command was relinquished to General J. E. Johnston.
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (; May 28, 1818 – February 20, 1893 ) was a Louisiana-born American military officer, politician, inventor, writer, civil servant, and the first prominent general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
Beauregard was trained as a civil engineer at the United States Military Academy and served with distinction as an engineer in the Mexican-American War.
Beauregard was born at the " Contreras " sugar-cane plantation in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, about outside New Orleans, to a Creole family.
One of his instructors was Robert Anderson, who would later become the commander of Fort Sumter and surrender to Beauregard at the start of the Civil War.
Beauregard considered his contributions in dangerous reconnaissance missions and devising strategy for his superiors to be more significant than those of his engineer colleague, Captain Robert E. Lee, so he was disappointed when Lee and other officers received more brevets than he did.
As it was sinking unevenly in the moist soil of Louisiana, Beauregard had to develop a renovation program.
He informed the U. S. Army Engineer Department late in 1856 that he was going to join the filibuster William Walker, who had seized control of Nicaragua ; he had offered Beauregard the rank of second-in-command of his army.
Beauregard was narrowly defeated.
" Beauregard wrote to the first Confederate capital of Montgomery, Alabama, that Anderson was a " most gallant officer ".
For a while, Beauregard persisted in moving his troops for an attack on his right flank ( McDowell's left, toward Centreville ), but Johnston urged him to travel with him to the threatened flank at Henry House Hill, which was weakly defended.
Having become a political liability in Virginia, Beauregard was transferred to Tennessee to become second-in-command to General Albert Sidney Johnston ( no relation to Joseph E. Johnston ) in his Army of Mississippi, effective March 14, 1862.
Beauregard believed that the battle was essentially won and his men could finish off Grant in the morning.
" Beauregard was ordered to Charleston and took command of coastal defenses in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, replacing Maj. Gen. John C. Pemberton.
Beauregard was unhappy with his new assignment, believing that he deserved command of one of the great Confederate field armies.

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Shortly afterwards, he was approached by his producer Georges de Beauregard to quickly make a film for him due to a financial difficulty after Jacques Rivette's film The Nun was banned by the French government.

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Beauregard attended New Orleans private schools and then went to a " French school " in New York City.
In 1841, Beauregard married Marie Antoinette Laure Villeré ( March 22, 1823 – March 21, 1850 ), the daughter of Jules Villeré, a sugar cane planter in Plaquemines Parish and a member of one of the most prominent French Creole families in southern Louisiana.
Instead Beauregard enrolled as a private in the " Orleans Guards ", a battalion of French Creole aristocrats.
Cherchez la femme ), a turtle, Howland Owl, Beauregard ( Houndog ), Porkypine, and Miz Mamzelle Hepzibah, a French skunk.
Sand sculpture ' Give me shelter ' 2008 2nd prize USF World Double Championship, by American Rusty Croft and French Canadian Guy Beauregard
That same year Richelieu, the French king's first minister, keen to minimise opportunities for Austrian resistance, arranged for the flattening of all the castles in Lorraine, including Beauregard Castle which for centuries has overlooked Raon.
The French officer Chevalier de Beauregard was made Governor of the city of Mergui after the Siam – England war ( 1687 ) that resulted in the English being expelled from Siam.
In the 1950s, she purchased the historic Beauregard House in New Orleans ’ French Quarter and became a fixture of New Orleans ' life.
The binomial commemorates French nobleman Louis Marie Pantaleon Costa, Marquis de Beauregard ( 1806-1864 ).

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Civic Buildings: Former Arsenal and Archives of the City of Genève, Former Crédit Lyonnais, Former Hôtel Buisson, Former Hôtel du Résident de France et Bibliothèque de la Société de lecture de Genève, Former école des arts industriels, Archives d ' État de Genève ( Annexe ), Bâtiment des forces motrices, Library de Genève, Library juive de Genève « Gérard Nordmann », Cabinet des estampes, Centre d ' Iconographie genevoise, Collège Calvin, Ecole Geisendorf, Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève ( HUG ), Hôtel de Ville et tour Baudet, Immeuble Clarté at Rue Saint-Laurent 2 and 4, Immeubles House Rotonde at Rue Charles-Giron 11 – 19, Immeubles at Rue Beauregard 2, 4, 6, 8, Immeubles at Rue de la Corraterie 10 – 26, Immeubles at Rue des Granges 2 – 6, Immeuble at Rue des Granges 8, Immeubles at Rue des Granges 10 and 12, Immeuble at Rue des Granges 14, Immeuble and Former Armory at Rue des Granges 16, Immeubles at Rue Pierre Fatio 7 and 9, House de Saussure at Rue de la Cité 24, House Des arts du Grütli at Rue du Général-Dufour 16, House Royale et les deux immeubles à côté at Quai Gustave Ador 44 – 50, Tavel House at Rue du Puits-St-Pierre 6, Turrettini House at Rue de l ' Hôtel-de-Ville 8 and 10, Brunswick Monument, Palais de Justice, Palais de l ' Athénée, Palais des Nations with library and archives of the SDN and ONU, Palais Eynard et Archives de la ville de Genève, Palais Wilson, Parc des Bastions avec Mur des Réformateurs, Place Neuve et Monument du Général Dufour, Pont de la Machine, Pont sur l ' Arve, Poste du Mont-Blanc, Quai du Mont-Blanc, Quai et Hôtel des Bergues, Quai Général Guisan and English Gardens, Quai Gustave-Ador and Jet d ' eau, Télévision Suisse Romande, university of Geneva, Victoria Hall
Numerous forts, some of which date back to the time and that incorporate Vauban's designs elements, sit on the six hills that surround the city: Fort de Trois Châtels, Fort Chaudanne, Fort du Petit Chaudanne, Fort Griffon, Fort des Justices, Fort Beauregard and Fort de Brégille.
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Current members of Alcor include nanotechnology pioneer Eric Drexler, Internet pioneer Ralph Merkle, engineer Keith Henson and his family, MIT professor Marvin Minsky, aging researcher Aubrey de Grey, mathematician Edward O. Thorp, computer security CEO Kenneth Weiss, casino owner Don Laughlin, inventor Ray Kurzweil, film director Charles Matthau, futurists Max More and Natasha Vita-More, entrepreneurs Saul Kent, Luke Nosek, Magali & Stephan Beauregard and Future Electronics founder Robert Miller.
James Beauregard Beam ( 1864 – 1947 ) managed the family business before and after Prohibition, rebuilding the distillery in 1933 in Clermont, Kentucky, near his Bardstown home.

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Bragg at least calmed the nerves of Beauregard and Polk who had become agitated by their apparent dire situation in the face of numerically superior forces before the arrival of Johnston on March 24, 1862.
On March 29, 1862, Johnston officially took command of this combined force, which continued to use the Army of the Mississippi name under which it had been organized by Beauregard on March 5.
Wilson ( although married ) had seen a great deal of Mrs. Greenhow, and while with her may have told her about the plans followed by Major General Irvin McDowell, which may have been part of the intelligence Mrs. Greenhow got to Confederate forces under Major General Pierre Beauregard.
on Beauregard ’ s staff ( Confederate Army ) for a short while and that he had been seen at Manassas as had been reported.
" Other sources indicate that general Pierre Beauregard considered Morphy unqualified, but that Morphy had indeed applied to him.
Pierce appointed Beauregard as superintending engineer of the New Orleans Federal customs house, a huge granite building that had been built in 1848.
" Major Robert Anderson at Fort Sumter wrote to Washington, D. C., that Beauregard, who had been his student at West Point in 1837, would guarantee that South Carolina's actions be exercised with " skill and sound judgment.
Early in the morning of April 12, negotiations with Anderson had failed and aides of Beauregard, sent to deal personally with Anderson, ordered the first shots of the American Civil War to be fired from nearby Fort Johnson.
While visiting his forces in Florida, which had just repelled a Union advance at Jacksonville, Beauregard received a telegram that his wife had died on March 2, 1864.
Also in late December, Beauregard found out that Hood's army had been severely damaged in its defeat at the Battle of Nashville ; there were very few men in fighting condition who could oppose Sherman's advance.
Fort Polk South is the larger principal city of the Fort Polk South-DeRidder CSA, a Combined Statistical Area that includes the Fort Polk South ( Vernon Parish ) and DeRidder ( Beauregard Parish ) micropolitan areas, which had a combined population of 85, 517 at the 2000 census.
DeRidder is the smaller principal city of the Fort Polk South-DeRidder CSA, a Combined Statistical Area that includes the Fort Polk South ( Vernon Parish ) and DeRidder ( Beauregard Parish ) micropolitan areas, which had a combined population of 85, 517 at the 2000 census.
In a 2000 interview, Newman said that he had scripted an Anno Dracula movie for Stuart Pollok and André Jacquemetton, who originally wanted Daniel Day-Lewis and Isabelle Adjani for Beauregard and Geneviève, and then Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche after they became too old.
Beauregard took command of South Carolina forces in Charleston ; on March 1, President Jefferson Davis had appointed him the first general officer in the armed forces of the new Confederacy, specifically to take command of the siege.
Ironically, Major Anderson had been Beauregard's artillery instructor at West Point ; the two had been especially close, and Beauregard had become Anderson's assistant after graduation.

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