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Jean-Baptiste De Lavalette
Jean-Baptiste de Lavalette or Louis Jean-Baptiste de Lavalette or Louis Jean-Baptiste de Thomas de la Valette, Count of La Valette-du-Var, la Valette, was a former noble turned Robespierre, Robespierrist. He was elected lieutenant colonel commanding the Lombards battalion in September 1792. He served as commanding officer, leader of popular society, military governor, and lieutenant colonel. He was guillotined on 10 Thermidor Year II (28 July 1794) in the wake of Thermidorian Reaction, as a Hanriot assistant and a Robespierrist, Early life Jean-Baptiste de Lavalette was born in Paris on 27 October 1753 from Joseph François de Thomas de la Valette (1729-1765) and Marie d'Alencé. He has two brothers and one sister: *François Louis Clair de Thomas de la Valette (1750-1836), emigrated in 1789; *François Joseph Elisabeth de Thomas de la Valette, guillotined in 1794; *Marie Louise de Thomas de la Valette, emigrated with her family. Gardes de la Marine, Garde de la Marine in 1769, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Régiment De Normandie
The Régiment de Normandie was created in 1616 from different military groups in Normandy by the Maréchal of France Concini, marquis d'Ancre and the favorite of the Queen Marie de Médicis.Rene Chartrand, ''The French Soldier in Colonial America'' (Alexandria, New York, and Bloomfield, Ontario: Museum Restoration Service, 1984), 16–17. See also * Military of New France The military of New France consisted of a mix of regular forces from the French Royal Army (Carignan-Salières Regiment) and French Navy ( Troupes de la marine, later Compagnies Franches de la Marine) supported by small local volunteer militia ... External links Soldiers of the Sun King References {{DEFAULTSORT:Regiment De Normandie Military units and formations established in the 1610s Military units and formations disestablished in 1791 Line infantry regiments of the Ancien Régime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles François Dumouriez
Charles-François du Périer Dumouriez (; 26 January 1739 – 14 March 1823) was a French military officer, French minister of foreign affairs, minister of Foreign Affairs, French minister of Defense, minister of War in a Constitutional Cabinet of Louis XVI, Girondin cabinet and army general during the Low Countries theatre of the War of the First Coalition, French Revolutionary War. Dumouriez is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe, on Column 3. With General François Christophe Kellermann, Kellermann he shared the first French victory at Battle of Valmy, Valmy where the Prussian army was forced to draw back. He rapidly advanced north (till Moerdijk#The village of Moerdijk, Moerdijk); before entering Holland he decided to return to Brussels when the French armies lost territory in the east of Austrian Netherlands, Belgium and the Siege of Maastricht (1793). He disagreed with his successor Jean-Nicolas Pache, Pache, the radical National Convention, Convention a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Baptiste Favart
Jean-Baptiste () is a male French name, originating with Saint John the Baptist, and sometimes shortened to Baptiste. The name may refer to any of the following: Persons * Charles XIV John of Sweden, born Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, was King of Sweden and King of Norway * Charles-Jean-Baptiste Bouc, businessman and political figure in Lower Canada * Felix-Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Nève, orientalist and philologist * Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target, French lawyer and politician * Hippolyte Jean-Baptiste Garneray, French painter * Jean-Baptiste (songwriter), American music record producer, singer-songwriter * Jean Baptiste (grave robber) – A 19th-century gravedigger in Utah, United States, notorious for robbing hundreds of graves, leading to his exile and mysterious disappearance. * Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, French critic, journalist, and novelist * Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, chairman of Supreme Revolutionary Council in Burundi until 1976 and president of Burundi (1976-1987) * Jean-B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Executive Council (French Revolution)
Executive Council may refer to: Government * Executive Council (Commonwealth countries), a constitutional organ that exercises executive power and advises the governor * Executive Council of Bern, the government of the Swiss canton of Bern * Executive Council of Catalonia, the government of the Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia * Executive Council of Vojvodina, the government of the Serbian province of Vojvodina * Executive Council (South Africa), the name of the cabinet in the governments of South African provinces * Executive Council of Hong Kong, a council that advises and assists the Chief Executive of Hong Kong * Executive Council of the Irish Free State, cabinet and ''de facto'' executive branch of government of the 1922–1937 Irish Free State * Executive Council of Macau, a council that advises and assists the Chief Executive of Macau * Massachusetts Governor's Council, an executive body of the US state of Massachusetts * Executive Council of New Hampshire, an exec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Army Of The Coasts Of Brest
The Army of the Coasts of Brest () was a French Revolutionary Army formed on 30 April 1793 by splitting the '' Army of the Coasts'' into this army and the '' Army of the Coasts of Cherbourg''. The formation was first put under the command of Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux and charged with fighting the War in the Vendée, combatting the Chouannerie and protecting the coasts of Brittany against a British invasion. After successfully defending Nantes and suffering setbacks at Tiffauges and Montaigu, Canclaux was recalled on 5 October 1793 and many of the army's soldiers were absorbed into the Army of the West. Over the next few years, Jean Antoine Rossignol, Jean-François-Auguste Moulin, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, Lazare Hoche and Gabriel Venance Rey led the army in turn. In June–July 1795 the army crushed a Royalist invasion at Quiberon. On 5 January 1796 the formation and two other armies were merged into the '' Army of the Coasts of the Ocean'' and placed under the command o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Aubert
Claude may refer to: People and fictional characters * Claude (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Claude (surname), a list of people * Claude Callegari (1962–2021), English Arsenal supporter * Claude Debussy (1862–1918), French composer * Claude Kiambe (born 2003), Congolese-born Dutch singer * Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009), French anthropologist and ethnologist * Claude Lorrain (c. 1600–1682), French landscape painter, draughtsman and etcher traditionally called just "Claude" in English * Claude Makélélé (born 1973), French football manager * Claude McKay (1890–1948), Jamaican-American writer and poet * Claude Monet (1840–1926), French painter * Claude Rains (1889–1967), British-American actor * Claude Shannon (1916–2001), American mathematician, electrical engineer and computer scientist * Madame Claude (1923–2015), French brothel keeper Fernande Grudet Places * Claude, Texas, a city * Claude, West Virginia, an unincorporated community ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auguste Marie Henri Picot De Dampierre
Auguste Marie Henri Picot de Dampierre (; 19 August 1756 – 9 May 1793), styled the Marquis de Dampierre and usually known as Dampierre , was a French general during the time of the French Revolution. He served in many of the early battles of the War of the First Coalition, and was killed in action in 1793. His name is among those inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe. Early life Dampierre was born in Paris into a military family and was commissioned as a junior officer in the Gardes Françaises 17 May 1772. He was promoted to 1st Ensign 19 January 1777 and Sous-Lieutenant 15 June 1780, but then quit the Guards because he was dissatisfied with Marshal de Biron, and transferred to the Regiment of Chartres, 6 October 1784. He then became Major of the 2nd Chasseurs of Normandy 1 May 1788. During the 1780s he travelled to England and then to Berlin, where he studied Prussian military tactics. He became an admirer of Frederick II of Prussia, imitating him even down to the smallest deta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cambrai
Cambrai (, ; ; ), formerly Cambray and historically in English Camerick or Camericke, is a city in the Nord department and in the Hauts-de-France region of France on the Scheldt river, which is known locally as the Escaut river. A sub-prefecture of the department, Cambrai is a town which had 32,501 inhabitants in 2018. It is in the heart of the urban unit of Cambrai with 46,772 inhabitants. Its functional area, a more extensive range, included 94,576 inhabitants in 2018.Comparateur de territoire: Aire d'attraction des villes 2020 de Cambrai (108), Unité urbaine 2020 de Cambrai (59403), Commune de Cambrai (59122) INSEE With |
Blaise Duval
Blaise Duval de Hautmaret, or more widely referred to as Blaise Duval, (4 September 1739 – 17 January 1803) was a French general of the Revolutionary Wars. Biography Son of a merchant, he was born in Abbeville in northern France. He was cornet in the Garde du corps of the King in 1758. He fought in the Seven Years' War in the 11th régiment de chasseurs à cheval ( de) called Soubise Volunteers Regiment. He was promoted to lieutenant on 26 March 1762, captain on 1 July 1766 and lieutenant colonel on 3 March 1774. He was appointed a member of the Order of Saint Louis in 1778. On 22 September 1786, he was posted as a Lieutenant du Roi in the Montreuil citadel. He was discharged with the headquarters staff of this citadel on 1 August 1791. Lieutenant-colonel with ''Ancien Régime'', he was posted with the same grade in the 1st Somme battalion on 6 September 1791. He was colonel of the 6th Dragoon Regiment from 23 March 1792. He was promoted to General de Brigade on 25 Augus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Nicolas Courtois , a Portuguese hypocoristic of the name "Alexandre"
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Alexandre may refer to: * Alexandre (given name) * Alexandre (surname) * Alexandre (film) See also * Alexander * Alexandra (other) * Xano (other) Xano is the name of: * Xano, a Portuguese hypocoristic of the name " Alexandre (other)" * Idálio Alexandre Ferreira (born 1983), Portuguese footballer known as "Xano", currently playing for Sligo Rovers {{hndis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
