Augustin Bertoletti

Augustin Bertoletti

Augustin Bertoletti , actually Antoine Marc Augustin Bertoletti (born August 28, 1775 in Milan , Italy , † March 6, 1846 in Vienna , Austria ) was a French général de brigade of Italian descent.

Life

During the coalition wars, Bertoletti served under Eugène de Beauharnais , the viceroy of Italy .

He was then entrusted with the leadership of a brigade under the command of Achille Fontanelli and was later transferred to Jean-Baptiste Rusca . When Rusca went missing in the Battle of the Piave on May 8, 1809, Bertoletti succeeded him. In the same year he fought in the battle of Wagram and distinguished himself with this brigade in the battle of Raab .

During the wars in Spain , Bertoletti defended Tarragona against the British army under the command of John Murray .

After the coalition wars , Napoleon sent Bertoletti to Vienna and entrusted him with political and administrative tasks. Bertoletti died there on March 6, 1846 at the age of 71.

Honors

• His name can be found on the western pillar (37th column) of the triumphal arch on Place Charles-de-Gaulle (Paris).

literature

• Scott Bowden, Charlie's Tarbox: Armies on the Danube 1809 . Emperor Press, Chicago, Ill. 1989, ISBN 0-913037-08-7 .
• Michael Glover: The Peninsular War 1807-1814. A concise military history . Penguin Books, London 2001, ISBN 0-14-139041-7 (reprint of the London 1974 edition).
• Kevin F. Kiley: Once there were titans. Napoleon's generals and their battles. 1800-1815 . Greenhill Press, London 2007, ISBN 978-1-85367-710-6 .
• Charles Mullié: Biography of the célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850 . Poignavant, Paris 1852 (2 vols.).
• Georges Six: Dictionnaire biographique des géneraux & amiraux français de la révolution et de l'émpire. 1792-1814 . Saffroy, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-901541-06-2 (2 vols., Reprint of the Paris 1934 edition).
• Digby Smith : The Napoleonic Wars Data Book . Greenhill Press, London 1998, ISBN 1-85367-276-9 .