Aide-de-camp to the King, 1883–1895.
Commander of the 2nd Military District, 1882–1890.
Commander of the 4th Infantry Division, 1877–1882.
Commander of the 9th Infantry Brigade, 1875–1877.
Commander of the 6th Infantry Brigade, 1875.
Commander of the 1st Grenadier Regiment, 1870–1875.
Commander of the Belgian Volunteer Corps in Mexico, 1864–1867.
Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold (1884), Military Cross (1885).
Grand Cross of the Order of the Lion and Sun of Persia (1890), Order of the Red Eagle with diamonds of Prussia (1889), Order of Aviz of Portugal (1886), Order of the Golden Lion of the House of Nassau, Netherlands (1884), Order of Charles III, Spain (1883) and Order of St Anna with diamonds, Russia (1881), Honorary Cross, 1st Class, of the Princely House Order of Hohenzollern (1885), Commander of the Legion of Honour of France (1878), Medjidji Order of Turkey (1868), Crown Order Prussia (1867) and Order of Guadeloupe of Mexico (1865), Officer of the Order of the Mexican Eagle (1866), Knight of the Order of Leopold of Austria (1868), Bronze Medal for Military Merit of Mexico (1865), Commemorative Medal for the Campaign in Mexico, France (1868).
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