Armand Philippon

Armand Philippon is a major general French which was useful under the Révolution and the Empire. It was born the August 27th 1761 with Rouen and died the May 4th 1836. According to its act of baptème dated August 28th, 1761, it prénommait actually Amand

Biography

It entered to the service like soldier to the Régiment of Lorraine, the April 15th 1778. Become corporal, it obtained the rank of sergeant on November 1st 1786 and that of quartermaster-sergeant the April 15th 1790.

Named captain with the 7th battalion of the Nozzle-with Ambès the August 9th 1792, Philippon made this year campaign, like that of 1793 to the Armée with North, under the orders of the generals Servan and Léonard Alulîer. It went then to the Armée with Pyrenees-Western the, ordered by Moncey, where it was pointed out by its bravery, while removing, only with 600 men, the station of Irursum, defended by 2.300 Spanish S. It killed 400, made out of them captive the lieutenant-colonel, 17 officers and 37 soldiers. This beautiful feat of arms deserved to him the provisional rank of adjudant-general chief of brigade, which was conferred to him.

Philippon passed later to the Armée with the West, where one put it at the reform, with treatment, the 21 fructidor year IV. In year VII, it accepted the order of going to the Armée with the Danube, passed to that of the the Alps, and became there chief of the 87e half-brigade the 29 brumaire of the same year. It made successively the campaigns of years IX, X and XI, in the country of the Grisons, in the Valais, in Suisse and Italy.

It was used for the Armée with Hanover when it was created member of the Légion of honor the 19 frimaire year XII, then officer with the Order, the 25 meadow following. Created Baron of the Empire in 1809, the war of Spain provides him new occasions to announce its courage; it in. gave evidence bright to the Siège of Cadiz, which was worth to him the Brigadier general rank of the June 23rd 1810.

With the Battle of Gebora, it fought again with a rare intrepidity. With the head office of Badajoz, of which it had been appointed governor, the Philippon general defended the approaches of the place by vigorous exits made by the way and cuttings off or counter-approaches which returned progress of besieging about null. The 10, it made an exit with 1.200 men, seized the trench, destroyed it basic in roof, and withdrew itself only in front of higher forces.

The 12, the general Beresford, having learned that the Duc of Dalmatie advanced with the help of Badajoz, decided to raise the seat and to concentrate its forces to fight battle: it was put then moving; but at the time when its rear-guard was withdrawn, the Philippon general still made an exit with the head of the garrison, and cut in parts a regiment Portuguese of light troops which was in last line. Thus with limited resources it knew, by obstinacy die its courage, to prolong defense enough to give time to the marshal Soult to come to help the place.

The June 10th, the French garrison had to support a news attacked which it pushed back with same success. Coldly intrepid in the middle of the dangers, the first in the exits, the last in the retirement, undertaking, untiring, the governor of Badajoz did not cease giving to his the example of most whole devotion. Besieging, then despairing to seize this city, burned, in the night of the June 11th, their provisioning of seat, and, the 12 in the morning, they disappeared from Badajoz.

Raised with the Major general rank of the July 9th 1811, in reward of its brilliant led, the Philippon general was besieged last once in March 1812. It deployed even more talent and of courage in this defense that in the preceding ones, but, betrayed by the inhabitants, attacked by a valorous enemy whose forces were infinitely higher than those which were opposed to him, the French general after having fought on the breach, in the streets, on the public places, was constrained to always yield to the number crescent of its adversaries.

Seeing any lost hope, it was contained with the handle of men who remained to him in a church, where it still held some time; but the lack of ammunition forced it to be made captive as well as the remains of its valiant garrison.

One transported it in England, where he managed to break his irons. Of return in France, in July 1812, it was employed with the Large army in August of the same year, then obtained the command of the division of the body the March 23rd 1813. The April 7th, it passed in the 11th body and followed Vandamme in the throats of the Bohemia.

It was him which, after the Bataille of Kulm, knew by the skilful ones operates to bring back the remains of the French troops to Dresden, where it was made prisoner with the body that the count Gouvion-Saint-Cyr ordered there.

Returned in France at the time of the First Restoration, the Philippon general was created Chevalier of Saint-Louis, obtained his retirement the January 15th 1814, and died the May 4th 1836.

Its name is engraved on the Triumphal arch of the Star, west coast.

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See too

List of the French regiments

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