Etienne Hulot

Étienne Hulot , completely Étienne Hulot, baron de Mazerny (born February 15, 1774 in Mazerny , Ardennes department , † September 13, 1850 in Nancy , Meurthe-et-Moselle department ) was a French general of the infantry .

Live and act

In 1793, when he was nineteen, Hulot volunteered for the army. In the Battle of Altenkirchen (July 4, 1796) he fought under the command of Maréchal général Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult . In the battle of Montenotte (April 12, 1796) he became an orderly officer at Soult and was taken prisoner by Austria.

After the Battle of Marengo (June 14, 1800), Hulot was released and was accepted into Soult's staff as aide-de-camp . He took part in the battles near Ulm (October 16/19, 1805) and Austerlitz (December 2, 1805) and was wounded several times.

At Preussisch Eylau (February 7/8, 1807) Hulot was already in command of his own, but was wounded again. After his recovery, Hulot was briefly used in various posts in the Grande Armée and promoted to colonel in 1808.

The invasion of Spain had been going on for several years when Napoleon Bonaparte ordered Hulot to Spain in early 1811. Hulot fought at Gévora (February 19, 1811), at La Albuera (May 16, 1811) and in front of Fuentes de Oñoro (May 3-5, 1811).

On August 9, 1812, Hulot was promoted to général de brigade and fought as such a. a. before Hanau (October 30/31, 1813) and Paris (March 30, 1814). After Napoleon's abdication and the Treaty of Fontainebleau (April 11, 1814), Hulot joined the Bourbons . He remained a partisan of King Louis XVIII. until Napoleon's reign of the Hundred Days began. Hulot rejoined his emperor and fought under the command of Marshal Étienne-Maurice Gérard in the Battle of Ligny (June 16, 1815).

After the Battle of Waterloo (June 18, 1815), Hulot was sent into temporary retirement. It was only after the intercession of Marshal Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr that the king confirmed Hulot in his rank in 1819 and appointed him inspecteur d'infanterie and two years later inspecteur général .

Honors

• December 1805 Officer of the Legion of Honor
• December 1813 Commander of the Legion of Honor
• December 1813 Baron de l'Émpire
• 1814 Ordre royal et militaire de Saint-Louis
• May 1825 Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor
• His name can be found on the north pillar (2nd column) of the Triumphal Arch on Place Charles de Gaulle ( Paris )

literature

• Jean B. Boulliot: Biography ardennaise ou histoire de Ardenais qui sont fait remarquer par leurs écrits. leurs actions, leurs vertus et leurs ereurs, vol. 2 . Paris 1830, pp. 478-481.
• Charles Mullié: Biography of the célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850, vol. 1 . Poignavant, Paris 1852.
• Charles Oman : A history of the peninsular war . Greenhill Books, London 2004, ISBN 1-85367-214-9 (9 vols.)
• Georges Six: Dictionnaire biographique des généraux et amiraux français de la Révolution et de l'Émpire. 1792-1814, Vol. 1 . Saffroy, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-901541-06-2 .
• Jean Tulard (Ed.): Dictionnaire Napoléon . Fayard, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-213-60485-1 (2 vols.)

Web links

• Étienne Hulot at arcdetriomphe.info