Rémy-Isidore Exelmans
Rémy-Joseph-Isidore, comte Exelmans (also Excelmans ; born November 13, 1775 in Bar-le-Duc , † June 22, 1852 in Saint-Cloud near Paris ) was General and Marshal of France .
biography
Exelmans began his military career in 1791 in a volunteer battalion under Oudinot , distinguished himself in 1799 in the Neapolitan War under Jean-Étienne Championnet and as Murat's adjutant in the war against Austria in 1805 .
After the Battle of Preussisch Eylau promoted to Général de brigade , he was captured in the entourage of Murat in Spain and brought to England. In 1811 he succeeded in escaping and crossing the canal in a small barge, whereupon he entered the service of King Joachim I of Naples as the grand stable master .
Rejoined the French army, he took part in the Russian campaign as commander of the Guard Grenadiers, commanded the 4th Light Cavalry Division in the second cavalry corps under Sebastiani in the 1813 campaign and this corps itself in 1814. During the first restoration, he went over to the Bourbons , he concluded In 1815 Napoleon immediately after his return from Elba and was given command of a cavalry reserve corps during the campaign in Belgium (June 15-19, 1815), which fought with its 3200 riders in the battle of Ligny and then under Marshal Emmanuelle Grouchy pursued the defeated Prussians, but by the III. Prussian corps of Lieutenant General Thielmann held at Wavre , did not take part in the battle of Waterloo . Nevertheless, he managed to attack and destroy two Prussian hussar regiments near Versailles on July 1st .
Proscribed in 1816, he lived in Belgium and Nassau until he was allowed to return to France in 1823. Louis-Philippe appointed him to the Chamber of Peers in 1831 , in which he made himself popular, particularly at the Armand Carrels trial, with energetic declarations against the execution of Neys .
On August 15, 1849 he was made Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor and on March 11, 1851 by Napoléon III. , for whom he had declared himself one of the first, was appointed Marshal of France . He died as a result of a fall on his horse near Sèvres on June 22, 1852 in Saint-Cloud. His son was the Admiral Joseph-Maurice Exelmans .
Awards
- 1830: Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor (August 21), Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor 1849
Honors
His name is entered on the triumphal arch in Paris in the 27th column.
literature
- Jules Nollet-Fabert. Notice sur M. le maréchal Exelmans, 1775-1851. N. Rolin, Bar-le-Duc, 1851.
- Exelmans, Remi - Joseph - Isidore. In: Charles Mullié: Biographie des célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850. Volume 1. Poignavant, Paris 1851, p. 506 f.
- Exelmans, (Isidore, comte). In: Marie-Nicolas Bouillet , Alexis Chassang (eds.): Dictionnaire universel d'histoire et de geographie . Nouvelle édition (26th) with a supplement. Hachette, Paris 1878, p. 639 .
- Exelmans, Rémy Joseph Isidore. In: Adolphe Robert, Edgar Bourloton, Gaston Cougny (eds.): Dictionnaire des parlementaires français. Volume 2: Cay - Fes. Bourloton, Paris 1891.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Exelmans, Rémy-Isidore |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Exelmans, Rémy-Joseph-Isidore |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Marshal |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 13, 1775 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bar-le-Duc |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 22, 1852 |
| Place of death | Saint-Cloud near Paris |