Jean Maximilien Lamarque
See also: Lamarque
Jean Maximilien Lamarque , born with Saint-Sever, department of the Moors, in 1770, military French.
Biography
Only sons of a rich person family it left like simple volunteer in 1792.Captain, then ordering pomegranates in the phalange of Latour-in Auvergne, adjudant-general after the Taken of Fontarabie, which it seized with 200 pomegranates, Brigadier general in 1801 after the Prise of Lunéville, it was distinguished, in this quality, with the Bataille of Hohenlinden. Chief of staff of the King de Naples Joseph Bonaparte, Major general, it made the Campagne of Spain of 1805.
Ordering forwarding in 1808 against Capri (new Gibraltar) which ordered to sir Hudson Lowe, the future geôlier of Sainte-Hélène.
See also: Catch of Capri
The forwarding of Capri had lasted thirteen days, the capitulation having taken place only the October 17th. The Lamarque general, to which returned the honor of this feat of arms, continued his brilliant career and was distinguished in all the campaigns which followed, in particular with Wagram, where it had four horses killed under him.
Commander of Paris in the Hundred Days, then general-in-chief of the Armed with the Vendée. He wrote with the Vendéen S: “ I reddened not to require peace of you, because in the civil wars only glory, it is to finish them. ”. Napoleon even learned his victory at the time as it entered to the Elysium-Bourbon, after the Bataille of Waterloo.
Included/understood in the Ordinance of July 24th, Lamarque was obliged to flee in Belgium.
Returned in France in 1818, he lived initially in the retirement. Appointed Moors in 1828, it sat at the extreme left and appeared among the 221.
Re-elected after 1830, it was employed some time in the Western, returned to sit at the Room, often spoke on the questions of foreign politics, decided against the treaties of 1815 and for the Polish.
He died of the Choléra in 1832. Its funeral became the occasion of the bloody days of the 5 and June 6th.
Opinion of Napoleon
“ the generals who seemed to have to rise was Gerard, Clausel, Foy, Lamarque, etc They were my new marshals. ”“ At the time of the last insurrections of the Vendée, the Lamarque general that I had sent at the height crisis there, there made wonders and exceeded my hopes. ”
“ was this, on behalf of Lamarque, ignorance of the true state of the things, or pure imagination of the winner? however, here it is in the exile: it is with the number of the thirty-eight one. It is that it is easier to proscribe than to overcome. ” (Napoleon with Grey waxbill.)
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