Louis Bastoul

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Louis Bastoul (born August 19, 1753 in Montolieu , Département Aude , † January 15, 1801 in Munich , Electorate of Bavaria ) was a French general of the infantry .

Live and act

At the age of twenty, Bastoul entered the royal army on April 8, 1773 as a volunteer . He joined the infantry and remained loyal to this branch of service throughout his life. He was able to prove himself quickly and was soon promoted: Caporal (April 11, 1780) and Sergeant (January 25, 1787). At the beginning of the revolution he changed regiment on July 8, 1789 and was confirmed there as a sergeant in the same year.

In the following year Bastoul came to Béthune ( Département Pas-de-Calais ) as an adjudant-major to the Garde nationale, and from there he was ordered a little later with the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the Armée du Nord . On July 2, 1794, Bastoul changed as général de brigade to the Armée de Sambre-et-Meuse and came to the staff of General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan .

After further promotions, Bastoul was under the command of General Jean-Baptiste Kléber and fought a. a. near Wetzlar (June 15, 1796), Amberg (August 24, 1796) and Würzburg (September 1-3, 1797). After the Battle of Neuwied (April 18, 1797) Bastoul came to General Jean-Victor Moreau and took part under his command in the battles near Engen (May 3, 1800) and Meßkirch (June 4/5, 1800).

In the course of the year Bastoul switched to the staff of General Jean Pierre François Bonet and fought under his command in the Battle of Hohenlinden (December 3, 1800). There he was badly wounded in the leg and after minimal first aid he was brought to the Palais Rechberg in Munich ( Hackenviertel ) on the same day . In this city ​​palace he refused the amputation with the words “Vivre ou mourir, tout entier”. On January 15, 1801, he succumbed to his wounding.

tomb

Grave of Louis Bastoul in the old southern cemetery in Munich location

The grave of Louis Bastoul is in the old southern cemetery in Munich (grave field 12 - row 3 - place 1/3) location .

Inscription on Bastoul's tombstone with the date and place of his wounding and death, the dates are given in the French Revolutionary Calendar .

Honors

literature

  • James R. Arnold: Marengo and Hohenlinden. Napoleon's rise to power . Pen & Sword Military, Barnsley 2005, ISBN 1-84415-279-0 , p. 253 (EA Barnsley 1999).
  • David G. Chandler : The campaigns of Napoleon . Weidenfeld, London 1993, ISBN 0-297-81367-6 (unchanged reprint of the London 1966 edition)
  • Charles Mullié: Biography of the célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850, vol. 1 . Poignavant, Paris 1852.
  • Georges Six: Dictionnaire biographique des généraux et amriaux français de la Révolution et de l'Émpire. 1792-1814 . Saffroy, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-901541-06-2 (unchanged reprint of the Paris 1934 edition)
  • Adolphe Thiers : Marengo and Hohenlinden. Four chapters from “Histoire du consulat et de l'Émpire” . Weidmann, Berlin 1881.
  • Jean Tulard (Ed.): Dictionnaire Napoléon . Fayard, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-213-60485-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Live or die, always as a whole"

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personal data
SURNAME Bastoul, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1753
PLACE OF BIRTH Montolieu , Aude department
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1801
Place of death Munich , Electorate of Bavaria