Jean Charles Abbatucci

Jean Charles Abbatucci or Abatucci (15 November 1770 – 2 December 1796) was a French general during the War of the First Coalition. His name is engraved on the Arc de Triomphe.

Life

The son of the general

Rescued in extremis by the 89th demi-brigade, he took the offensive once again and pushed the Émigrés back as far as Mindelheim, where he took 1,000 prisoners. He crossed the Lech into Bavaria on 24 August 1796 and again showed his bravery on this occasion – the biographie Mullié states that "he had to cross this wide and rapid river in front of the enemy : the first battalion that he sent was submerged by the river waters. Immediately rushing to the head of a second battalion, he animated his troops by his example and his words, supported those who were stumbling, saved those whose courage was leaving them and finally led them onto the enemy banks where they overthrew the Austrians who they had already beaten once that day".

He then captured

Memorials

After the peace was concluded, Moreau put up a monument to Abbatucci in 1801 on the site of his death, which Allied troops destroyed during the siege of

, on its place Abbatucci.

Notes

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References

• "Jean Charles Abbatucci", in Charles Weiss, Biographie universelle, ou Dictionnaire historique contenant la nécrologie des hommes célèbres de tous les pays, 1841
• Mullié, Charles (1852). "Abbatucci (Charles)" . Biographie des célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850  (in French). Paris: Poignavant et Compagnie. p. 1–2.