Jean Barthélemy Darmagnac

Jean Barthélemy Darmagnac

Jean Barthélemy Darmagnac (born November 1, 1766 in Toulouse , † December 13, 1855 in Bordeaux ) was a French Général de division of the infantry .

Life

On September 13, 1791, Darmagnac joined the army as a volunteer. In the Revolutionary Wars he was soon able to distinguish himself through bravery. Several promotions followed and in the Battle of Bassano (September 8, 1796) he fought with the rank of chief de bataillon .

When Napoleon was planning his campaign to Egypt in 1798 , he volunteered. a. together with Augustin Darricau voluntarily. He fought near the pyramids (July 21, 1798) and was badly wounded during the siege of Acre (March / May 1799). After the Battle of Abukir , Napoleon had General Jean-Baptiste Kléber give him honorary weapons in the form of a ceremonial saber.

After returning to France, several transfers followed and it was not until Austerlitz (December 2, 1805) that Darmagnac took part in the war again.

Darmagnac fought in the war in Spain . He switched to Field Marshal Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult and fought valiantly near Pamplona (February 17, 1808) and Medina de Rioseco (July 14, 1808). In the latter he was again seriously wounded.

Only in the battle of Fuentes de Oñoro (May 3-5, 1811) was he operational again. He also commanded the 2nd Division in the battles off Buçaco (September 27, 1810), Salamanca (July 22, 1812), Vitoria (June 21, 1813) and Orthez (February 27, 1814) and was able to distinguish himself through bravery.

After the Battle of Waterloo (June 18, 1815) is Darmagnac turned the House of Bourbon and Royal I. Louis-Philippe to.

On August 28, 1830, Jean Barthélemy Darmagnac retired. He settled in Bordeaux and died there six weeks after his 89th birthday. He found his final resting place in the Daignac cemetery .

Honors

• Baron de l'Émpire
• Viscount de l'Émpire
• 1814 Commander of the Legion of Honor
• 1814 Ordre de la couronne de fer
• 1814 Chevalier des Ordre royal et militaire de Saint-Louis
• 1815 Grand Officier of the Legion of Honor
• His name can be found on the western pillar (36th column) of the triumphal arch on Place Charles-de-Gaulle ( Paris ).

literature

• David 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.).
• Stephen Pope: The Cassell Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars . Cassell, London 1999, ISBN 0-304-35229-2 .
• Georges Six: Dictionnaire biographique des généraux & amiraux français de la Revolution 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 .