Jean-Jacques Ambert

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Portrait of Ambert
Portrait of Ambert

Jean-Jacques Ambert , born as Jean-Jacques Latouche (born September 30, 1765 in Saint-Céré , † November 20, 1851 in Saint-Claude ) was a French Général de division .

Life

At the age of fifteen, in 1780, Ambert volunteered for the Royal Navy. He came on the ship "Pluto" and fought a. a. in front of St. Lucia and Tobago . In 1783 he returned to France and soon joined the army.

Enthusiastic about the ideals of the revolution , he was soon able to distinguish himself through courage and bravery in the coalition wars. He was promoted quickly: in 1783 he was Sous-lieutenant and from July 7, 1792 he was already in command as a Colonel-lieutenant . He was in the rank of Général de division a . a. before Mainz (April / July 1793) and Kaiserslautern (November 28/30, 1793)

When Napoleon was planning his Italian campaign in 1796 , Ambert became a member of his staff.

Ambert acquired the Château Lagrézette around 1800 and married soon after. The future general and military writer Joachim Ambert (1804–1890) was his son.

Ambert's grave
Ambert's grave

After the Battle of Waterloo (June 18, 1815) he withdrew from active service and until 1832 only took on military administrative tasks. On June 11, 1832, Ambert was adopted into retirement. He settled in Saint-Claude on the island of Basse-Terre ( Guadeloupe ). He died seven weeks after his 86th birthday on November 20, 1851 and found his final resting place in the military cemetery at Fort Delgrès ( Basse-Terre ).

Honors

Northern column of the triumphal arch
Northern column of the triumphal arch

literature

  • David G. Chandler : The campaigns of Napoleon . Weidenfeld, London 1993, ISBN 0-297-81367-6 (reprint of the London 1966 edition).
  • Charles Mullié: Biography of the 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 (reprint of the Paris 1934 edition).
  • Digby Smith : The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book . Greenhill, London 1998, ISBN 1-85367-276-9 .
  • Karl Florentin Leidenfrost : French Heldensaal or the life, deeds and current fates of the most memorable heroes of the republic and the empire, especially Napoleon's comrades in arms and marshals , Bernhard Friedrich Voigt , Ilmenau 1828, pp. 9-11.

Web links

Commons : Jean Jacques Ambert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Portrait of the General in the French National Library

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ s. a. Republic of Mainz .
  2. ^ Société des études littéraires, scientifiques et artistiques du Lot: Bulletin de la Société des études littéraires, scientifiques et artistiques du Lot . Impr. A. Laytou, Cahors 1873 ( bnf.fr [accessed October 31, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Named after Colonel Louis Delgrès (1766–1802).
personal data
SURNAME Ambert, Jean-Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jean-Jacques Latouche
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French general
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Céré
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1851
Place of death Saint-Claude