Carlo Francesco Remonda

Carlo Francesco Remonda , also Charles-François Rémond (born November 2, 1761 in Comologno , † June 24, 1847 in Paris ) was a French general .

Life

Carlo Francesco Remonda was the son of the merchant Antonio Maria Remonda. His family moved to Bourges in central France when he was a child.

In 1789 he joined the French National Guard as a simple soldier . In 1792 he served as a captain in the Revolutionary Army in the 1st Volunteer Battalion and was in the Rhine-Moselle Army until 1794. In 1794 he was assigned to the Armée de Sambre-et-Meuse and on May 4, 1796 came to the 108th half-brigade.

Because of his Swiss origins, he managed to join the units of Giuseppe Antonio Mainoni , who invaded Switzerland in 1798. He stayed in Switzerland until 1800 and during this time fought against soldiers of the Russian army in Schwyz .

He became battalion commander on August 3, 1800. On November 3, 1803 he was promoted to major of the 34th Infantry Regiment ; he was stationed in the garrison in Mainz until 1805 .

In 1806 and 1807 he took part in the Prussian and Polish campaigns and was appointed Colonel of the 34th Infantry Regiment on December 31, 1806 .

After the defeat at the Battle of Bailen in 1808 he was personally transferred to Spain by Napoleon Bonaparte to the front there (see also: Napoleonic Wars on the Iberian Peninsula ), where he stayed until 1813. During this time, his was on August 16, 1811 Appointed brigadier general , he then commanded the 2nd Brigade of the 7th Infantry Division of the Army in Portugal . On April 11, 1812 he was wounded in a battle against the English at Villagarcia de La Torre near Llerena . In August 1812, after the surrender of the city of Astorga , of which he was the last in command, he was captured and imprisoned in La Coruna . However, he managed to escape from there by boat with other French officers.

On July 16, 1813, he took command of the 2nd Brigade of the 6th Infantry Division in Spain.

Due to the surrender of the city of Astorga, he was indicted by a military court in 1813, but acquitted in full.

In February 1814 he commanded the National Guard in Lyon and took part in the Battle of Mâcon on March 11, 1814 against the Austrians who had occupied the city.

During the reign of the Hundred Days in 1815, he headed the departments of Vienne and Indre .

In 1818 he was naturalized as a French, before being admitted as a full French citizen on January 1st.

In 1825 he received his farewell and went into retirement.

honors and awards

• March 25, 1804: Knight of the Legion of Honor
• March 18, 1808: Appointment as imperial baron
• March 10, 1809: Officer of the Legion of Honor
• December 17, 1810: Commander of the Legion of Honor
• King Louis XVIII awarded him the Knight's Cross of the Ordre royal et militaire de Saint-Louis in 1814 .

literature

• Daniela Pauli Falconi: Carlo Francesco Remonda. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 12, 2009 , accessed April 10, 2020 .

Web links

• Carlo Francesco Remonda . In: Insubrica Historica.ch. (engl.).