Nicolas Charles Victor Oudinot

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Nicolas Charles Victor Oudinot.

Nicolas Charles Victor Oudinot (born November 3, 1791 in Bar-le-Duc ; † July 7, 1863 ibid) was Duke of Reggio and French general .

Life

Nicolas Charles Victor Oudinot was born as the eldest son of the future Marshal Charles Nicolas Oudinot . Napoleon I appointed him his first page at the congress in Erfurt in 1805 , when he took part in the emperor's campaign of 1809. He then joined the fifth hussar regiment as a lieutenant and was adjutant Massénas during the fighting in Portugal . Returned to France in 1811, he became a member of the Imperial Guard and took part in Napoleon's campaigns in Russia, Germany and France until 1814. When Napoleon abdicated at Fontainebleau , he promoted Oudinot to colonel . Since Oudinot did not declare himself for the returned emperor during the hundred days , he was after the second restoration of Louis XVIII. Confirmed as Colonel. He led the one he régiment des chasseurs à pied de la garde (1st Guard Infantry Regiment walk) and organized the military school to later Saumur . Elevated to Maréchal de camp in 1824 , he was given a brigade command. After the July Revolution of 1830 , he withdrew into private life.

In order to avenge his younger brother Auguste, who had died as commander of a cavalry regiment on June 26, 1835 near Mulay Ismail in Algeria , Oudinot entered the military again. He went to North Africa and received the supreme command of the first brigade of the corps operating against Maskara . Seriously wounded, he returned to France and was made lieutenant general .

Since 1842 Oudinot was a member of the Chamber of Deputies , where he voted with Thiers . He joined the February Revolution in 1848 and was elected to the Constituent Assembly of the Maine-et-Loire Department , where he was a member of the War Committee. In April 1848 he was appointed commander of the Alpine Army. He received in April 18/49 in command of the Papal States certain intervention force, landed on April 25 in Civitavecchia and captured on 2 and 3 July, of Garibaldi defended Rome . He was recalled on August 18, 1849. In the National Assembly he belonged to the Bonapartist Party until 1851 and voted with them for the constitutional revision, but then went over to the Orléanists . He made himself commander of the troops against Napoléon III by the 200 deputies who protested against the coup d'état of December 2, 1851 . appoint and was therefore arrested on his orders, but released on December 8th.

Oudinot, who also wrote economic and military writings, now lived on his country estate near Bar-le-Duc and died there on July 7, 1863 at the age of 71.

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personal data
SURNAME Oudinot, Nicolas Charles Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke of Reggio and son of Nicolas-Charles Oudinot
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Bar le Duc
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1863
Place of death Bar le Duc