Jean-Henri Tugnot de Lanoye

Jean Henri Tugnot de Lanoye (born June 24, 1744 in Dommartin-sur-Vraine , Vosges , † August 25, 1804 in Auvet ) was a French brigadier general of the Revolutionary Wars . He was the son of Henry Tugnot and Jeanne Deville. He married Claude-Françoise Parisot on July 17, 1766 in Membrey .

Life

He joined the Royal Grenadier Regiment of Camus as a lieutenant in 1756, where his father and three of his uncles were captains. He took part with this corps in the Seven Years' War and distinguished himself when crossing the Weser on July 16, 1757 and when taking Kassel . In 1763 he was made captain in the Provincial Battalion of Toul, which he followed to the islands of Ré and Oléron in 1782 , and in 1783 he was made Knight of Saint-Louis .

On September 30, 1791, he was elected lieutenant colonel in command of the 4th Volunteer Battalion of the Haute-Saône and served in the army of the Moselle department from 1792 to 1794. On March 8, 1793, he was made a colonel in the 8th Line Infantry Regiment, and on the following June 5, he took command of the Place de Longwy , where the Jacobin Society denounced him as a royalist. He was arrested, then released and joined the Moselle army with his regiment.

On April 29, 1794 he was promoted by the mission representative Élie Lacoste to provisional brigadier general and on July 23, 1794 he was appointed commander of the 3rd and 4th military divisions of the Moselle Army. He took part in the capture of Trier on August 8, 1794 and in the Battle of the Green Mountain.

On January 4, 1795, he commanded the 2nd brigade of General Desaix's division during the siege of Mainz , then on March 20, 1795 in the Armée de la Moselle . In June 1795 he was appointed deputy commander of the 3rd and 4th Military Divisions in Metz , and on June 13 he was not included in the staff reorganization. On September 1, 1795, he was sent on reform leave, and on October 5, he took an active part in the suppression of the unrest during the royalist uprising of the 13th Vendémiaire IV.

On October 8, 1795, he was returned to active service as brigade commander, and on October 15, he was restored to his rank as brigadier general. On October 20, 1795 he took command of the Place de Metz and was handed over to the reform on November 1, 1796.

On June 13, 1797 he was recalled to the temporary command of the Place de Douai , and on October 12, he was in command of the Nord department. On February 10, 1799, he was assigned to the 24th Military Division in Bruges , then as second in command of the Lys and Escaut departments. He was retired on December 14, 1801 and retired on September 8, 1802.

He died in Auvet on August 25, 1804.

literature

Pierre Jullien de Courcelles: Dictionnaire historique et biographique des généraux français: depuis le onzième siècle jusqu'en 1822 , volume 9, 1823, p. 564