Léonard Huard de Saint-Aubin
Léonard Huard de Saint-Aubin , actually Léonard Jean Aubry Huard de Saint-Aubin (born January 11, 1770 in Villedieu-les-Poêles , Département Manche ; † September 7, 1812 near Borodino ) was a French general de brigade .
Life
Huard was the third son of Thomas Huard de Saint-Aubin, an honored officer in the national gendarmerie and his wife Marie Renée Lemonnier des Roches.
Enthusiastic about the ideals of the revolution early on , Huard joined the army on March 8, 1792. He made his career there very quickly: on August 24th of the same year he was promoted to captain and sixteen days later he was already chief de bataillon .
In 1796 Huard took part in Napoleon's Italian campaign and put down the Tyrolean uprising (→ Andreas Hofer ).
Huard took part in Napoleon's Russian campaign in 1812 . During the Battle of Borodino (September 7, 1812), Léonard Huard died at the age of 42. He found his final resting place on the edge of the battlefield.
Honors
- 1808 Ordre royal des Deux-Siciles
- 1809 Commander of the Legion of Honor
- His name can be found on the north pillar (9th column) of the triumphal arch on Place Charles-de-Gaulle Paris .
- The rue Général Huard in Villedieu-les-Poêles was named in his honor
literature
- Stephen Pope: The dictionary of the Napoleonic wars . Cassell, London 1999, ISBN 0-304-35229-2 .
- Arnauld Divry: Le général Huard, baron de l'Émpire. 1770-1812 . Éditions Historique, Teissèdre 2002, ISBN 2-912259-71-1 .
- Philip J. Haythornthwaite: Who was who in the Napoleonic Wars . Arms & Armor, London 1998, ISBN 1-85409-391-6 .
- Charles Mullié: Biography of the célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850 . Poignavant, Paris 1851 (2 vols.).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Huard de Saint-Aubin, Léonard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French brigadier general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1770 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Villedieu-les-Poêles |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 7, 1812 |
| Place of death | Borodino |