Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer
Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer (18 December 1747 – 19 August 1804), born in
French general during the French Revolutionary Wars
and on three occasions led armies in battle.
Early career
Schérer served in the Austrian army long before the Revolution, but defected to France in 1775. In 1780 Schérer became a major in an artillery regiment stationed in Strasbourg. He entered Dutch service in 1785 as a major in the Légion de Maillebois. In 1790 he was released from Dutch service with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
French Revolution
He returned to France in 1791 and in 1792 was made a
Army of the Eastern Pyrenees on 3 March 1795. On 14 June a 35,000-strong Spanish army defeated Schérer's 25,000 men in battle at Bàscara in Catalonia province in Spain.[1]
On 31 August 1795 he was again sent to Italy to replace
Napoleon Bonaparte
. Schérer was then unemployed for a number of months until being named Inspector-General of Cavalry, first of the Army of the Interior and then of the Army of the Rhine and the Moselle.
War of the Second Coalition
Schérer served as
Suvorov, in the Lecco engagement, which preceded the Battle of Cassano.[5] Because of Schérer's responsibility for the loss of Italian possessions, he was forced to appear before a committee of inquiry. After securing an acquittal, he retired to private life on his estate at Chauny in Picardy
, where he died in 1804.
References
- ISBN 978-1883476182.
- Chandler, David. The Campaigns of Napoleon. New York: Macmillan, 1966.
- Smith, Digby. The Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill, 1998. ISBN 1-85367-276-9
Footnotes
- ^ Smith, p 103
- ^ Chandler, p 38
- ^ Smith, p 151
- ^ Duffy 1999, p. 59.
- ^ Duffy 1999, pp. 61–64.
External links
- website of the city of Delle about Schérer
- Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer (1747-1804) The Encyclopedia of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
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