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Claude Alexandre de Bonneval
1675Jul, 14

Claude Alexandre de Bonneval

Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French general (d. 1747)
Claude Alexandre, Comte de Bonneval (14 July 1675 – 23 March 1747), was a French army officer who later went into the service of the Ottoman Empire, eventually converting to Islam and becoming known as Humbaracı Ahmet Paşa.

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