Jean Baptiste Eblé
Jean Baptiste Eblé (born December 21, 1758 in St. Johann near Saargemünd , † December 21, 1812 in Königsberg in East Prussia) was a French Général de division .
Eblé distinguished himself repeatedly in the fighting in the Netherlands . He was then already in October 1793 Général de division . The swift conquest of the Dutch and Belgian fortresses was mainly his work. Under Moreau he commanded the French artillery between 1795 and 1797 . In the following years he served in the war against Naples under General Jean-Étienne Championnet and later again under Moreau in this position.
Then Eblé organized the artillery of the Batavian Republic and took part in the campaign against Prussia in 1806/07 . In 1808 he became Minister of War of the Kingdom of Westphalia . In 1810 he went to the army of Massena to Portugal before 1812 as commander of the pontoon trains in the Grand Army in Russia served. Only through his circumspection and self-sacrificing work was it possible to carry the pontoon columns with them on the retreat from Moscow and to build the bridges over the Berezina . He was weakened as a result of the exertion he had suffered and died on his birthday, December 21, 1812 in Königsberg.
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| SURNAME | Eblé, Jean Baptiste |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1758 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Jean-Rohrbach near Saargemünd |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 21, 1812 |
| Place of death | Königsberg (Prussia) in East Prussia |