Pierre Joseph Habert

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Pierre Joseph Habert

Pierre Joseph Habert , occasionally Pierre-Joseph Habert (born December 22, 1773 in Avallon , † May 19, 1825 in Montréal ) was a French Général de division of the infantry .

Life

Habert was the son of the bookseller Henri Habert. In autumn 1792, Habert volunteered for the army and fought in the first coalition war . He was promoted very quickly and was able to support the Society of United Irishmen in Ireland in its efforts for independence as early as 1798 with the rank of Capitaine under the leadership of General Lazare Hoche (→ Irish Rebellion of 1798 ). Habert was captured by the British and was only able to return to France for several weeks of intensive negotiations.

In the same year Habert voluntarily accompanied Napoleon on his Egyptian expedition ; he acted as aide-de-camp for General Jacques-François Menou . He fought at Abukir (July 25, 1799) and Heliopolis (March 20, 1800) and returned to France after the surrender of Alexandria (August 30, 1801).

In the third coalition war he led his own command under General Jacques Desjardin under the leadership of Marshal Charles Pierre François Augereau and fought in the Battle of Dürnstein (November 11, 1805), Hollabrunn (November 16, 1805) and the Battle of Austerlitz (December 2, 1805).

In the fourth coalition war, Habert fought alongside Pierre Belon Lapisse near Jena (October 14, 1806), Lübeck (November 6, 1806), Czarnowo (December 23, 1806), Golymin (December 26, 1806) and Prussian Eylau (7/8 February 1807).

Back in France, Habert was promoted again and was transferred to Spain (→ Napoleonic Wars on the Iberian Peninsula ). He took u. a. participated in the siege of Saragossa (June / August 1808) and fought in the battle of Bailén (July 18/22, 1808), Tuleda (November 23, 1808) and Alcañiz (May 23, 1809).

After the Battle of Paris (March 30, 1814) and Napoleon's abdication, Habert turned to the House of Bourbon . When Napoleon had left the island of Elba and his " rule of the hundred days " began, Habert came to Dominique Joseph Vandamme's general staff . He fought at Ligny (6 June 1815) and Wavre (18/19 June 1815). In the last one, Habert was seriously wounded by a shot in the stomach.

He survived his wounding and remained a member of the General Staff; but was declared incapacitated for active military service with effect from August 1 of the same year. After his recovery he lived in Paris for some time and later bought a stately home in Montréal. He settled there in 1817. At the end of 1818 he officially left Vandamme's staff and officially retired on December 1, 1824. General Habert died on May 19, 1825 of the long-term effects of his war injury and found his final resting place on the Cimetière de Montréal .

Honors

literature

  • David Chandler: The campaigns of Napoleon . Weidenfeld, London 1993, ISBN 0-297-81367-6 (reprint of the London 1966 edition).
  • Philip J. Haythornthwaite: Who was who in the Napoleonic Wars . Arms & Armor, London 1998, ISBN 1-85409-391-6 .
  • Kevin F. Kiley: Once there were titans. Napoleon's generals and their battles 1800–1815 . Greenhill, London 2007, ISBN 978-1-85367-710-6 .
  • Charles Mullié: Biography of the célébrités des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850 . Poignavant, Paris 1851 (2 vols.).
  • Francis L. Petre: Napoleon's conquest of Prussia 1806 . Greenhill, London 1993, ISBN 1-85367-145-2 .
  • Digby Smith : The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book . Greenhill, London 1998, ISBN 1-85367-276-9 .
  • Dr. K. Leidenfrost: French Heldensaal , Verlag von Beruh, Friedrich Voigt, Ilmenau 1828, p. 192 f.
personal data
SURNAME Habert, Pierre Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Habert, Pierre-Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH Avallon
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1825
Place of death Montréal