Alexandre Charles Perrégaux

Perrégaux took part in the Expedition of the Col des Beni Aïcha, and was present at the Siege of Constantine on 12 October 1837 when General Charles-Marie Denys de Damrémont was killed by a cannonball.^[5] While attempting to reach Damrémont and recover his body, Perrégaux was struck by a bullet which passed through his nose and into the palate of his mouth.^[6] He was knocked unconscious and wounded on Damrémont's body.^[7]

Perregaux was rushed back by his soldiers to the town of Annaba, and embarked on a boat to take him back to France.^[8] He died at sea while crossing the Mediterranean.^[1][9]

The boat carrying him docked in a port on the island of Sardinia, and he was buried in a cemetery in the city of Cagliari.^[10]

• Valentin Devoisins (1838). Recueil de documents sur l'expédition et la prise de Constantine. Paris: Joseph Corréard, Éditeur. pp. 25–29.

• Frédéric Alexandre Marie Jeanneret (1863). Biographie neuchâteloise, Volume 2. Le Locle: Eugène Courvoisier, Libraire-Éditeur. pp. 186–193.

• Société historique algérienne (1871). Revue africaine. Volume 15. Algiers: Bastide, Libraire-Éditeur. pp. 5–13.

• Narcisse Faucon (1890). Le livre d'or de l'Algérie: histoire politique, militaire, administrative. Paris: Augustin Challamel, Éditeur. p. 449.

• Jules de Cuverville (1899). Armée, marine, colonies, Volume 1. Paris: Éditions des Armées de Terre et de Mer. pp. 193–195.