Louis Henri Loison

Louis Henri Loison (born May 13, 1771 in Damvillers , † December 30, 1816 in Chikel near Liège ) was a French general.

Life

Louis Henri Loison

Loison was a soldier in 1787/88 and quickly made a career after the French Revolution . In 1791 he joined a volunteer regiment in his home department in Meuse , became a sous-lieutenant and in 1793 was general de brigade in the Rhine and Moselle armies. Troops under his command looted and destroyed Orval Abbey , which he was later blamed for. On the 13th Vendémiaire of the year IV (October 5, 1795) he fought under the command of Napoleon the rebels against the convention in Paris.

In 1799 he served under Masséna in Switzerland, under Napoléon in Italy and in 1805 took part in the Battle of Austerlitz . In 1806 he became governor general of Münster and Osnabrück . In March 1807 he took over the leadership of the siege of Kolberg , but could not overcome his opponent Gneisenau . In 1808 he fought under Junot in Portugal , in 1809 under Soult in Spain . For his services he received the domains Gifhorn and Meinersen from Napoleon .

Inscription with the mention of Loisons on the triumphal arch of Paris

After the Grande Armée invaded Russia, he set up a reserve division made up of Germans and Italians in Königsberg , with which he went to meet the defeated army in Vilnius in December 1812 . The majority of the inexperienced soldiers froze to death during this venture. After a short stay in the Wesel Fortress , Loison took part in the siege of Hamburg under Marshal Louis-Nicolas Davout in 1813 and in Davout's advance to Mecklenburg in the late summer of that year . Units commanded by Loison temporarily occupied the port city of Wismar in the course of this enterprise and advanced as far as Kröpelin .

Due to illness, Loison resigned from the army in early 1814 and entered under Louis XVIII. but again as Général de division . When Napoleon returned in 1815, he joined him and followed him into the battle of Waterloo . In November 1815 he went into exile and settled in Chikel, then the United Kingdom of the Netherlands .

Honors

His name is entered on the triumphal arch in Paris in the 35th column.

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• Keyword Louis Henri Loison in: Charles Mullié, Biographie des célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850 , 1852, as well as older German reference works.