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Nicolae Haralambie (August 27, 1835 in
Chișinău
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– April 3, 1908 in
Bucharest
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) was a
Romania
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n soldier and politician.
In 1861, he headed the Bucharest police. As a colonel, he took part in the dethronement of Prince
Alexandru Ioan Cuza
Alexandru Ioan Cuza (, or Alexandru Ioan I, also anglicised as Alexander John Cuza; 20 March 1820 – 15 May 1873) was the first ''domnitor'' (Ruler) of the Romanian Principalities through his double election as prince of Moldavia on 5 Januar ...
in 1866, subsequently serving in a regency alongside
Lascăr Catargiu
Lascăr Catargiu ( or Lascăr Catargi; 1 November 1823 – ) was a Romanian conservative statesman born in Moldavia. He belonged to an ancient Wallachian family, one of whose members had been banished in the 17th century by Prince Matei Basarab, ...
and
Nicolae Golescu
Nicolae Golescu (1810–1877) was a Wallachian Romanian politician who served as the Prime Minister of Romania in 1860 and May–November 1868.James Chastain (2004). ''Golescu Brothers''. Ohio University https://www.ohio.edu/chastain/dh/golesb.ht ...
.
He served as
War Minister
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from August 6, 1866, to February 7, 1867.
On July 7, 1874, together with
Ion Ghica
Ion Ghica (; 12 August 1816 – 7 May 1897) was a Romanian statesman, mathematician, diplomat and politician, who was Prime Minister of Romania five times. He was a full member of the Romanian Academy and its president many times (1876–1882, ...
and a third person, Haralambie performed a flight over Bucharest in a hydrogen balloon named "Mihai Bravul".
H. Salcă ''The first hot air balloon flight in Wallachia'' (in Romanian)
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He returned to the Romanian Army
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in 1877, taking part in the War of Independence
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as a brigadier general
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, and fighting with distinction at the battles of Smârdan and Vidin
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. Elected senator in 1879, Haralambie joined a coalition that took down the Ion Brătianu
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government.
References
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1835 births
1908 deaths
People from Chișinău
Romanian Ministers of Defence
Romanian Land Forces generals
Romanian military personnel of the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)
19th-century Romanian politicians