Clausel, Bertrand, marshal of France, born at Mirepoix; served under Napoleon in Holland, Italy, Austria, and Spain; was defeated at Salamanca, executing thereafter a masterly retreat; left France for America in 1815 on the fall of Napoleon, to whom he was devoted; returned in 1830, became commander-in-chief in Algeria, and ultimately governor (1772‒1842).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Claudius II. * Clausewitz, Karl von