Jean Baptiste, baron Franceschi (; 5 December 1766,

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19 March 1813, Danzig), was a French general.

Life

He entered the French service in 1793. He took part in the operations in

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in the following year, and received a wound at the

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. After this he left the island and was appointed a field officer in the French Army of Italy, with which he served from 1795 to 1799. He served as a general officer in the campaign of Marengo, in the Naples campaign of 1805-1806, and in the

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from 1807 to 1809. He was created a baron by

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. He commanded a Neapolitan brigade in the Russian War of 1812, and after the retreat from

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took refuge, with the remnant of his command, in Danzig, where in the course of the siege of 1813 he died.

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