François Nicolas Benoît Haxo

François Nicolas Benoît Haxo

François Nicolas Benoît Baron Haxo (born June 24, 1774 in Lunéville , † June 25, 1838 in Paris ) was a French general .

Life

Haxo joined the engineering corps early on . After he had fought on the Rhine and in Switzerland and had expanded the fortresses Bitsch and Geneva , he stood out in the siege of Saragossa in 1809. For Colonel promoted, he took with great success at the Battle of Wagram , acquiring again special recognition in Spain by the rapid intake of Lleida and Mequinenza . In 1812 he was a general de brigade on the general staff of Napoleon and was promoted to general de division for his outstanding achievements in the battle of Mahiljou .

After Haxo had directed the fortifications of Hamburg in 1813 , he was assigned to Vandamme , was taken prisoner near Kulm and was released after the Peace of Paris on May 30, 1814. Although he had returned to Napoleon during the episode of the Hundred Days in 1815 and participated in the Battle of Waterloo , King Louis XVIII appointed him . as inspector general of genius. In 1832, under Gérard , Haxo led the siege of the citadel of Antwerp and ended his military career with the development of a design for the fortifications of Paris. In 1832 Haxo was made a peer .

François Nicolas Benoît Baron Haxo died one day after his 64th birthday on June 25, 1838 in Paris and found his final resting place on the Cimetière Père Lachaise .

Honors

• March 13, 1811 Baron de l'Émpire
• 1814 Chevalier des Ordre royal et militaire de Saint-Louis
• 1828 Commandeur des Ordre royal et militaire de Saint-Louis
• 1833 Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor
• On October 2, 1865, the Rue Haxo in the 19th and 20th arrondissements of Paris was named after him.
• The Rue Haxo in Marseille was also named after him.
• His name can be found on the western pillar (36th column) of the triumphal arch on Place Charles-de-Gaulle (Paris).

literature

• Yvette Baradel et al: Histoire de Belfort , Roanne / Le Coteau: Horvath 1985, p. 209
• Gabriel Mengin: Notice nécrologique sur le lieutenant-général Baron Haxo . Bourgogne & Martinet, Paris 1838 (reprint from Spectateur militaire , August 1838).
• Charles Mullié: Biographie de célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850 . Poignavant, Paris 1851 (2 vols.).
• Georges Six: Dictionnaire biographique des généraux & amiraux français de la Révolution et de l'Émpire. 1792-1814 . Saffroy, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-901541-06-2 .