Jean-Pierre Augereau

Jean-Pierre Augereau (born September 27, 1772 in Paris , † September 25, 1836 there ) was a French general of the infantry and the cavalry .

Life

Augereau came from a humble background, his father was a bricklayer and his mother a saleswoman. The future Maréchal d'Empire Charles Pierre François Augereau was his older brother and Brigadier General Raoul Augereau a distant descendant.

With the support of his brother, Augereau enlisted in the army in September 1792. After a short training period, he was transferred to the Armée ddu Nord in mid-December of the same year . A year later, General Louis-Charles de Flers appointed him to the cavalry of his Armée des Pyrénées Orientales .

After a few promotions, Augereau was able to move to the Armée l'Italie in November 1795 in the rank of aide-de-camp of his brother . In July 1798 he rose in the same position to the general staff of Guillaume-Marie-Anne Brune , the then head of the Armée d'Helvetie . When his brother was entrusted with the management of the Armée gallo-batave some time later , he again appointed his brother as his aide-de-camp.

When Napoleon I was planning his campaign to Spain , he had Augereau transferred to Jean Lannes' general staff . Augereau fought alongside Auguste François-Marie de Colbert-Chabanais in the battles of Tuleda (1808), La Coruña (1809) and Talavera (1809) and replaced the seriously injured General Fouleau in the Affaire de Vede-la- Calabza.

Augereau took part in the sieges of Zaragoza (1809) and Ciudad Rodrigo in 1810 and was brave in destroying the defensive tower of Hostalric . Then Augereau returned to Paris and was mostly entrusted with military administrative tasks.

When Napoleon was planning his war against Russia , he promoted Augereau and transferred him to the staff of General Louis-Nicolas Davout . After the battle of the Beresina , Augereau was able to return to France unharmed.

When Napoleon abdicated after the Battle of Paris in 1814 , Augerea began the House of Bourbon and with it King Louis XVIII. to support. With effect from December 1, 1824, Augereau was adopted into retirement with the rank of member of the General Staff (l'état-major général de l'armée).

Jean-Pierre Augereau settled in Paris and died there two days before his 64th birthday on September 25, 1836. He found his final resting place in the Père Lachaise cemetery (Div. 40); his grave is next to that of his friend General Louis Lemoine .

Honors

• June 14, 1804 Commander of the Legion of Honor
• 13 August 1811 Baron de l'Empire
• August 24, 1814 Ordre royal et militaire de Saint-Louis

literature

• David G. Chandler : The campaigns of Napoleon . Weidenfeld, London 1993, ISBN 0-297-81367-6 (reprint of the London 1966 edition).
• Digby Smith : The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book . Greenhill Press, London 1998, ISBN 1-85367-276-9 .