Joseph Bernelle

He was born in 1785 to General Pierre-Antoine and his wife, Lady Marguerite Desnoyers.

[citation needed] He entered the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr in 1801 and was commissioned as sous-lieutenant in 1803.

He soon disbanded the nationally organized battalions and embraced the policy of amalgamation, with French as a common tongue.

[1] On 24 May 1836, Bernelle and his men, " attacked Carlists threatening the garrison at Zubiri, northeast of Pamplona near Larrasoaña.

[1] He was relieved by Colonel Joseph Conrad who was killed in action by the Carlists on 2 June 1837 at the Battle of Barbastro.