Pietro Teuliè

General Teuliè

Pietro Teuliè , also Pierre Teuliè (born February 3, 1763 in Milan , † probably on June 18, 1807 in Tramm near Kolberg in Pomerania ) was an Italian general in the Napoleonic service.

Life

Teuliè was a lawyer in Milan and a supporter of the French Revolution . After Napoleon's revolutionary army invaded Italy , Teuliè joined the Lombard Legion of the Cisalpine Republic in 1796 . Later he was the organizer of the National Guard from which the Army of the Republic of Italy emerged. He took part in uprisings against the Austrians in northern Italy and in the revolutionary destruction of the Republic of Venice . For his service in the Battle of Marengo on June 14, 1800, he became Minister of War of the Republic of Italy in 1801. Teuliè reorganized the army and gendarmerie and founded a hospital, a house for the disabled and a war orphanage in Milan in 1802, which still exists today as a military school ( grammar school ) for the Italian army . As a result of an intrigue by his enemies, he was deposed and arrested in 1804, but rehabilitated by Napoleon and promoted to brigadier general. Appointed divisional general in the camp of Boulogne in 1805, he was chosen by Napoléon to command the first corps on the intended landing in England. In October 1806, Teuliè and his division occupied Hanover and advanced to Stettin in winter . In March 1807 he initiated the siege of Kolberg , but was replaced from his command post on March 25th by Division General Loison . During a visit by entrenching soldiers in the front line on the night of June 12, 1807, a cannonball tore off his leg. Six days later he died at his headquarters in Tramm . On the day of the funeral, the commandant Kolbergs Gneisenau ordered a 24-hour ceasefire and had mourning ribbon hoisted on the ramparts in order to pay tribute to the fallen man on behalf of the citizens for his gentle attitude towards the civilian population and the wounded in the fortress. General Domenico Pino took over his command after the Peace of Tilsit . Teuliès name with dates of life is on the triumphal arch in Paris in the 17th column. In 1836 his embalmed body was transferred to Milan .

literature

• Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne , Vol. 35, Paris 1826, pp. 216-218, with further references.
• H. Riemann: History of the city of Kolberg, presented from the sources , Kolberg 1924, p. 557.