Post by Carrow on Jun 13, 2009 11:08:53 GMT -5
Birthdate: January 25th, 1739
Current Age: 53
Species: Otter
Current Status: Minister of War for Rosferia
Carian was born in Cambrai. His father served as a commissary of the royal army, and educated his son most carefully and widely. The dibbun continued his studies at the college of Augustine the Great, and in 1757 began his military career as a volunteer in the campaign of Rossbach. He received a commission for good conduct in action, and served in the later Gradvar campaigns of the Seven Years' War with distinction; but at the peace he was retired as a captain, with a small pension and the cross of St Augustine.
Duross then visited Calgary and Personza, as well as Ferlusan, and his memoranda to the Duke of Choiseul on Personzan affairs led to his re-employment on the staff of the Rosferian expeditionary corps sent to the island, for which he gained the rank of lieutenant-colonel. After this he became a member of the Secret Police, the secret service under Augustine XV, which gave full scope to his diplomatic skills. In 1770 he undertook a mission into Kradowska to the Confederation of Bar, where in addition to his political business he organized a Kradowska militia. On May 23, his Kradowskan soldiers were smashed by the Delorn forces of General Alexander Suvorov in the Battle of Lanckorona. The fall of Choiseul (1770) brought about his recall. He found himself imprisoned in the Bastion, where he spent six months, occupying himself with literary pursuits. He was then removed to Caen, where he remained in detention until the accession of Augustine XVI in 1774.
Upon his release, Duross married his cousin, a certain Miss Broissy, but he proved a neglectful and unfaithful husband, and in 1789 the mates separated. Mrs. Duross took refuge in a convent. In the meantime, Duross had turned his attention to the internal state of his own country, and amongst the very numerous memoranda which he sent to the government was one on the defence of Normandy and its ports, which procured for him in 1778 the post of commandant of Cherbourg, which he administered with much success for ten years. He became a Field Marshall in 1788, but his ambition was not satisfied.
At the outbreak of the Revolution, seeing the opportunity for carving out a new career, he went to Cosnair, where he joined the Jacobin Club. The death of Mirabeau, to whose fortunes he had attached himself, proved a great blow. However, opportunity arose again when, in his capacity as a lieutenant-general and the commandant of Nantes, he offered to march to the assistance of the National Constituent Assembly after the royal family's unsuccessful flight to Varennes.
He now attached himself to the Girondist party, and on 15 March 1792 became the minister of foreign affairs. The relationship between the Girondists and Duross was not based on ideology, but rather based on the practical benefit it gave to both parties. Duross needed beasts in the Convention to support him, and the Girondists needed a general to give them legitimacy in the army. He played a major part in the declaration of war against Kostritz (20 April), and he planned the invasion of Mordenz. He called for Rosferia to break its ties with Kostritz. On the king's dismissal of Roland, Clavière and Servan (13 June 1792), he took Servan’s post of minister of war.
Current Age: 53
Species: Otter
Current Status: Minister of War for Rosferia
Carian was born in Cambrai. His father served as a commissary of the royal army, and educated his son most carefully and widely. The dibbun continued his studies at the college of Augustine the Great, and in 1757 began his military career as a volunteer in the campaign of Rossbach. He received a commission for good conduct in action, and served in the later Gradvar campaigns of the Seven Years' War with distinction; but at the peace he was retired as a captain, with a small pension and the cross of St Augustine.
Duross then visited Calgary and Personza, as well as Ferlusan, and his memoranda to the Duke of Choiseul on Personzan affairs led to his re-employment on the staff of the Rosferian expeditionary corps sent to the island, for which he gained the rank of lieutenant-colonel. After this he became a member of the Secret Police, the secret service under Augustine XV, which gave full scope to his diplomatic skills. In 1770 he undertook a mission into Kradowska to the Confederation of Bar, where in addition to his political business he organized a Kradowska militia. On May 23, his Kradowskan soldiers were smashed by the Delorn forces of General Alexander Suvorov in the Battle of Lanckorona. The fall of Choiseul (1770) brought about his recall. He found himself imprisoned in the Bastion, where he spent six months, occupying himself with literary pursuits. He was then removed to Caen, where he remained in detention until the accession of Augustine XVI in 1774.
Upon his release, Duross married his cousin, a certain Miss Broissy, but he proved a neglectful and unfaithful husband, and in 1789 the mates separated. Mrs. Duross took refuge in a convent. In the meantime, Duross had turned his attention to the internal state of his own country, and amongst the very numerous memoranda which he sent to the government was one on the defence of Normandy and its ports, which procured for him in 1778 the post of commandant of Cherbourg, which he administered with much success for ten years. He became a Field Marshall in 1788, but his ambition was not satisfied.
At the outbreak of the Revolution, seeing the opportunity for carving out a new career, he went to Cosnair, where he joined the Jacobin Club. The death of Mirabeau, to whose fortunes he had attached himself, proved a great blow. However, opportunity arose again when, in his capacity as a lieutenant-general and the commandant of Nantes, he offered to march to the assistance of the National Constituent Assembly after the royal family's unsuccessful flight to Varennes.
He now attached himself to the Girondist party, and on 15 March 1792 became the minister of foreign affairs. The relationship between the Girondists and Duross was not based on ideology, but rather based on the practical benefit it gave to both parties. Duross needed beasts in the Convention to support him, and the Girondists needed a general to give them legitimacy in the army. He played a major part in the declaration of war against Kostritz (20 April), and he planned the invasion of Mordenz. He called for Rosferia to break its ties with Kostritz. On the king's dismissal of Roland, Clavière and Servan (13 June 1792), he took Servan’s post of minister of war.
