Joseph Corda

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Joseph Corda (born November 26, 1773 in Belrupt-en-Verdunois , † November 16, 1843 in Saint-Nicolas d'Acy, ( Courteuil )) was a baron and général de brigade of the artillery during the French Revolution , in the First Empire and during the Restoration .

Military career

He entered on September 17, 1792 as a lieutenant candidate (Élève sous-lieutenant) in the artillery school in Châlons-sur-Marne . On June 18, 1793 he was promoted to "Second Lieutenant" (Lieutenant en second) and on November 13, 1792 to Lieutenant in the "7 e régiment d'artillerie à pied" (7 e RAP - 7th foot artillery regiment). He was used as an artillery officer in the "7 e RAP" during two campaigns in the Armée de la Moselle . Still in this regiment he was on 29 June 1795 by brevet to captain promoted. Furthermore with his regiment he was with the Sambre-et-Meuse , the Armée du Nord, the Armée de la Moselle, the Armée d'Allemagne and the Armée du Rhin in service; among others in the battle of Hondschoote , the battles at Orchies , Pirmasens , Pellingen during the siege of Luxembourg (1794) and the siege of the Ehrenbreitstein fortress (1795).

On March 12, 1803, he took command of the 13th Artillery Workers Company (13 e compagnie d'ouvriers d'artillerie), which he himself had set up in Metz . On September 20, 1805 he was appointed battalion chief - Unterdirektor der Artillerie (Chef de bataillon sous-directeur d'artillerie) in Rennes . In this capacity he served in 1806 in the Armée d'Italie , which was commanded by the Maréchal d'Empire André Masséna . In 1806 he stood at the siege of Gaeta as commander and director of the artillery.

During the siege of Danzig in 1807 he was employed as director of the artillery and chief of the artillery staff in the troops of Général Jean Ambroise Baston de Lariboisière . During this siege he was lightly wounded several times and suffered several bruises.

On May 6, 1807, Corda was promoted to colonel and assigned to the general staff of the artillery. In the campaign to Poland he was involved with the Grande Armée , here in the role of Director and Chief of the Artillery Staff of the Army Corps (Directeur et de chef de l'état-major de l'artillerie du corps d'armée) of Maréchal Jean Lannes .

On January 4, 1807 he was awarded the order of a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur .

On March 10, 1808 he was appointed to the artillery directorate of the fortress Metz in 1809 and 1810 and then took over the position of chief of staff during the campaign to Walcheren in the army advancing against the British forces that had landed on Walcheren ( Walcheren expedition ) and General Director of Artillery Parks.

By decree of March 19, 1808 he was granted the title of baron. This was confirmed by the patent letter dated June 7, 1808 in Bayonne .

Promoted to Général de brigade on November 6, 1810 , Corda took command of Corfu over the artillery on the Ionian Islands from 1810 to 1812 , then command of the artillery of the 4th Corps of the Grande Armée. With this corps he was in the fighting until February 13, 1813, when he was taken prisoner by Russia ,

Returned to France on June 15, 1814, he was given command of the Regimental Artillery School (École régimentaire d'artillerie) in Toulouse on June 21 . King Louis XVIII awarded Corda on October 17th of the same year the Ordre royal et militaire de Saint-Louis . In April 1815, during the reign of the Hundred Days , he gave up his post and took command of the 8th Army Corps. After the final abdication of Napoleon Corda returned the king into service on 10 February 1816, he took command of the Regiment Artillery School in Auxonne . In July of the same year, during the blessing of the flags, he gave an acclaimed speech in the presence of the Duke of Angouleme before the “Regiment d'Auxonne” (6th Artillery Regiment). In Le Moniteur of August 22, 1817, an article under the heading Dijon is published that the governor of the 18th Nilitary Division is satisfied with the good management of this school by General Baron Corda after participating in the exercises of the Auxonne artillery school.

On May 1, 1820, Corda was initially put to the disposition, but was reactivated on June 1, 1820 and appointed as chairman of the commission for the implementation of state-ordered artillery tests. Decorated with the order of a Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur on May 1, 1821 , he was appointed a member of the Artillery Committee on March 13, 1822, in which he then worked as an assistant from December 22, 1824 to the end of 1828. From November 16, 1827 to October 28, 1834 he was a member of the examination board of the "École d'application de l'artillerie et du génie" when he was asked on December 25, 1830 to take command of the Artillery School in Toulouse.

On August 12, 1831, he was awarded the title of Lieutenant-General by King Louis-Philippe I and on April 1, 1836, he was again put up for disposition.

Reactivated on November 6, 1836 and appointed as a member of the artillery committee, he held his post until January 31, 1840. In the meantime, from June to September 1837, he was inspector general of the artillery. On January 31, 1840, he was finally transferred to the 2nd Reserve Department of the Army General Staff.

His name is not mentioned in the list of personal names on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris .

Awards

Ritter on January 4th, 1807,
Officer by royal decree on October 17, 1814,
Commandeur on May 1, 1821;

literature

  • Louis Gabriel Michaud "Biographie des hommes vivants" (Histoire par ordre alphabétique de la vie publique de tous les hommes qui se sont fait remarquer par leurs actions ou leurs écrits) Éditeur LG Michaud 1817 Volume 2
  • Jean Baptiste Pierre & Jullien de Courcelles "Dictionnaire historique et biographique des généraux français" (Depuis le onzième siècle jusqu'en 1820) 1822 Volume 4
  • Biography universelle et portative des contemporains (Dictionnaire historique des hommes vivants et des hommes morts depuis 1788 jusqu'à nos jours: qui se sont fait remarquer par leurs écrits, leurs actions, leurs talents, leurs vertus ou leurs crimes) Éditeur Chez l'Éditeur 1836 volume 1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Corda Joseph general de division, Biography des hommes vivants: ou, Histoire par orde alphabétique de ..., Volume 2 in the Google book search
  2. ↑ Dictionnaire Historique Et Biographique des Généraux Francais (French)
  3. ↑ Corda Joseph général de division, Biographie universelle et portative des contemporains; ou ..., Volume 1 in Google Book Search

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personal data
SURNAME Corda, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French brigadier general of the artillery
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH Belrupt-en-Verdunois
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1843
Place of death Saint-Nicolas d'Acy