Joseph Barbanègre
Joseph Barbanègre (22 August 1772 – 7 November 1830) was a French General and a Baron of the
Fortress of Huningue during the siege of the 1815 and held out until the end of hostilities, surrendering the place with full military honours on 26 August 1815.[1]
Biography
Barbanègre was born in
Wagram.[2]
He attained the rank of Seventh Coalition side considered to be a war crime.[4]
He died in Paris, aged 58, and is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in the area reserved for marshals and generals of the Empire. In his home village of Pontacq there is a street bearing his name and a statue erected in his honor on the town hall square.
Notes
- ^ Getty Images 2014.
- ^ a b Latruffe 1863, p. 344
- ^ Beaucourt, Allard & Guiraud 1925, p. 35.
- ^ MacQueen 1816, p. 420.
References
- Beaucourt, Gaston Louis Emmanuel Du Fresne, Marquis de; Allard, Paul; Guiraud, Jean (1925). Revue des questions historiques. V. Palmé. p. 35.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Getty Images (31 August 2014). "General Joseph Barbanegre surrendering Hunigue to the Austrians 26 August 1815". gettyimages.
- Latruffe, Franck (1863). Huningue et Bâle devant les traités de 1815. Dupont. p. 344.
- MacQueen, James (1816). A narrative of the political and military events of 1815: intended to complete the narrative of the campaigns of 1812, 1813, and 1814. Printed for the author, by E. Khull & Co. and sold by John Smith & Son. p. 420.
Further reading
- Casteig, Abbé (1897). "La défense d'Huningue et le Général Barbanègre en 1815". Études historiques et religieuses du Diocèse de Bayonn (in French). pp. 1–13, 51–60, 115–128, 16–168, 220–230, 269–277, 306–314, 349–358, 395–406, 471–478, 502–512, 551–561.
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