Michel Louis Arsène Lalande

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Michel Louis Arsène Lalande (born July 12, 1785 in Le Mans , France , † February 15, 1852 ibid) was a French maréchal de camp ( brigadier general ).

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After the defeat of the Lyon silk weavers' revolt , Lalande became Maréchal de camp in 1834

In the post-revolutionary First Empire , Michel Louis Arsène Lalande went to the École polytechnique and the Army Officers' College in 1804 , while his brother Julien Pierre Anne Lalande joined the French Navy . As a sous-lieutenant he took part in the campaigns in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and in the Kingdom of Naples from 1806 to 1808 , as a lieutenant he fought against the Austrians in Tyrol in 1809 and again in Calabria in 1810 . From 1811 he fought as a captain in Spain, became commandant of the 50 e régiment d'infanterie and proved himself in the French retreat over the Pyrenees in 1813 and in the battles of Orthez and Toulouse in 1814 .

During the reign of the Hundred Days , Lalande was made an officer of the Legion of Honor in 1815 , served the Bourbons after Napoleon's fall and became an officer in the Royal Guard in 1819. For his participation in the campaign of the Duke d'Angoulême in Spain , he was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1823. From 1825 to 1834 he commanded the 7th Infantry Regiment as a colonel. For his part in the suppression of the uprising of the silk weavers in Lyon , Lalande was promoted to Maréchal de camp in 1834 . Until 1836 he headed the Bas-Rhin military district , then the Indre-et-Loire military district .

After a long illness, Lalande finally died in his hometown of Le Mans.

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SURNAME Lalande, Michel Louis Arsène
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French general
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Le Mans , France
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1852
Place of death Le Mans , France