Pierre-Paul Botta
Pierre-Paul Botta (born May 3, 1741 in Wissembourg , † July 28, 1795 in Vannes ( Département Morbihan )) was a Général de brigade during the French Revolution .
Military career
On May 3, 1757 he joined the Régiment de Normandie as a simple soldier and took part in the campaigns of the Seven Years' War in Germany in 1760 and 1761 . He fought on October 15, 1760 in the battle of Kampen Abbey . On February 26, 1763 he was promoted to corporal, on November 1 of the same year to sergent and on September 1, 1765 appointed sergent-fourrier .
Commanded on the islands of France and Bourbon , he was appointed Adjudant on June 16, 1776 , on March 20, 1778 as Sous-lieutenant Porte-drapeau and on June 8, 1881 as Quartier-maître trésorier . In 1782 he was involved in the campaign to Geneva. On May 4, 1789 Botta was promoted to Capitaine by certification . On January 23, 1791, he was awarded the Order Chevalier de Saint-Louis .
On August 29, 1793 he received the epaulettes of a Chef de bataillon and was commissioned to organize the 17 e demi-brigade de bataille on the train of the Premier amalgam . Eventually he was given command of this demi-brigade and was promoted to chief de brigade on September 1 of the same year .
Used in the army on the coast of Brest , he was provisionally promoted to the Général de brigade by the Général de division Lazare Hoche on July 16, 1795 before the Battle of Quiberon . During the battle, he was seriously wounded in the leg on July 21, 1795 (3 thermidor de l'an III) at the head of a column attacking Fort de Penthièvre .
Transported to Vannes, he had to undergo an amputation and died of his wound on July 28, 1795.
Footnotes
- ↑ Flag officer
- ↑ It was from the one he Battalion of the 9 e régiment d'infantry (formerly Régiment de Normandie), the two e battalion de l'Indre and the volontaires de 3 e compiled battalion de volontaires de Seine-Inférieure.
literature
- Jacques Cartier: Pierre-Paul Botta. In: Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne . Volume 4. p. 310.
- Jacques Charavay: Les généraux morts pour la patrie, 1792–1871. Société de l'Histoire de la Révolution française, Paris 1893, p. 27 f.
- Jean-Pierre Kintz: Le Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne. La fin d'un long course. In: Revue d'Alsace. No. 132, 2006, pp. 513-516.
- Jean-Pierre Kintz: Le Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne. In: Revue d'Alsace. No. 133, 2007, pp. 523-528.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Botta, Pierre-Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1741 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wissembourg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 28, 1795 |
| Place of death | Vannes |