Editing Claudius Crozet (section)

==Early life, family==
Claudius Crozet was born in [[Villefranche-sur-Saône]], [[Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes]], France on December 31, 1789 to Pierrette Varion Crozet and her husband, wine merchant François Crozet. His mother died when he was a boy, and his father moved to Paris in 1800 with Claude and two siblings. Claude secured permission to attend the [[École Polytechnique]] in 1805. He studied engineering (including bridge-building) as well as military matters, and graduated as sub-lieutenant on October 1, 1807. Crozet then graduated from the Imperial Artillery School in [[Metz]], and received a commission as a second lieutenant on June 9, 1809. Thus, he served in the French Army under [[Napoleon Bonaparte]], and won a promotion to captain on July 22, 1812 during Napoleon's invasion of [[Russia]]. 

At the [[Battle of Borodino]] in September 1812, Captain Crozet was taken prisoner, but released in 1814 and returned to duty in the French army.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Crozet_Claudius_1789-1864|title = Crozet, Claudius (1789–1864) – Encyclopedia Virginia}}</ref> Napoleon abdicated in April 1814, but returned to power about a year later, was defeated at the [[Battle of Waterloo]] on June 18, 1815 and surrendered about a month later. Crozet resigned from the French military on April 11, 1816.

On June 7, 1816, in [[Paris]], Crozet married Agathe Decamp, and they would have daughters Agatha and Claudia Crozet Mills and a son (Alfred) before her death in March 1861.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Crozet_Claudius_1789-1864https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Crozet_Claudius_1789-1864|title = Crozet, Claudius (1789–1864) – Encyclopedia Virginia}}</ref>