Jean-Baptiste Broussier
Jean-Baptiste Broussier | |
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Jean-Baptiste Broussier (10 March 1766 – 13 December 1814) was a French
Divisional General of the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars
.
Life
Broussier was born in Ville-sur-Saulx.
Meant by his parents for a church career, in 1791 he instead enrolled in the 3rd battalion of
armée de Sambre-et-Meuse
, charged with the defence of an important post, where he was hit in the head by a musket ball.
In 1797 he moved to the
Trani and Andria
.
In 1799, the
comte de l'Empire the following October. He returned to Lombardy that same year, taking a large part at Wagram. He then served with equal brilliance in the French invasion of Russia and the 1813 Germany campaign. He took part in the battles of Ostrovno, Borodino, Maloyaroslavets and the Krasny. Straight after the disasters of 1813, he was put in command of the 3rd division of the observation corps at Mainz before being put in command of Strasbourg by Napoleon, where he was promptly besieged. In 1814 he took on command of the Meuse before dying of an apoplexy at Bar-le-Duc. His name is engraved on the north side of the Arc de Triomphe
, in column 7.
Notes
 | This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. (May 2017) |
- ^ a b Fierro, Palluel-Guillard & Tulard 1995, p. 571.
- ^ Tradition Magazine hors série N°26
References
- Fierro, Alfred; Palluel-Guillard, André; Tulard, Jean (1995). "Broussier Jean-Baptiste". In Laffont, Robert (ed.). Histoire et dictionnaire du Consulat et de l'Empire (in French). Paris: Bouquins. p. 571. ISBN 2-221-05858-5.
- Mullié, Charles (1852). . (in French). Paris: Poignavant et Compagnie.
- Archives nationales (CARAN) – Service Historique de l'Armée de Terre – Fort de Vincennes – Dossier S.H.A.T.Côte : 7 Yd 401.
- Côte S.H.A.T., services, awards on web.genealogie.free.fr : Les militaires
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