SOME OUTSTANDING BRACKs
Antoine Fortuné de Brack
Officer of the French cavalry, born in Paris in 1789, died in Evreux
on 01/21/1850. Hussar second-lieutenant in 1807, he took part in
the German Campaigns and other wars, achieving the rank of major
in 1814. He took part in the Battle of Waterloo, where two of his
horses were killed. The restoration retired him from the Army. Later
he accompanied Princess Amelia, daughter of Prince Eugenio de
Beauharnais, to Brazil. She had been promised in marriage to the
emperor, Pedro I, to whom Major Brack had been assigned as
aide-de-camp. With the 1830 revolution, he recovered his rank in
the French army and became Colonel (1832) and commanding
officer of the 4th Hussar Divison. Reaching the rank of General, he
became Director of the Cavalry School, leaving it in 1840 for health
reasons. He retired in 1848.
Man of bright talent, culture and outstanding skills, he understood
the true mission that the future would attribute to cavalry; an
opinion that he expounded with brightness but he unable to alter
the routine theories that guided the French generals and the
majority of the military. The disastrous war of 1870 gave victory to
Brack’s principles of tactics, the present basis of the cavalry drills
in France and other countries. An elegant and erudite military
writer, he produced: Avant-postes de Cavalerie Lègére (1871),
adopted in the majority of European military academies; Manuels
d’Instruction (1834), dedicated to second-lieutenants; a biography
of the Russian General Dionisio Devidor, and a collection of
numerous articles published in Spectateur Militaire (1831-40).
L.Chiala, an Italian congressman, published Ricordi della
Giovinezza de La Marmora (1831) containing the correspondence
between Brack and the future general La Marmora, close friends
since 1834.
Carl Heinrich Brack
A Prussian master-mason, born in 1824 who migrated to Brasil in
1854 and left a large descendancy.
See
<http://www.chbrack.org>
Wenceslau Brack
German lexicographer who lived in Constanz at the end of the XV
century, author of a Latin dictionary named Vocabularium Rerum
Archonium Appellatum, from which more than 15 editions have
been published.
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