Joachim Jerome Quiot of the Passage

Joachim Jerome Quiot of the Passage , born the February 9th 1775 with Alixan (Drome) and dead the January 12th 1849, is a Brigadier general and Brigadier French of the Révolution and Empire.

Biography

It is wire of parents honoured in the Tiers state. Quiot was hardly sixteen years old when it left for the Armée with the Alps like simple pomegranate to the 3^e battalion with volunteers with the Drome, where Claude Victor-Perrin, since marshal, was instructor. Successively corporal and quartermaster-sergeant, he was elected captain in 1793, made his first weapons with the Siège of Toulon, and passed then to the Armée with the Eastern Pyrenees, where one entrusted to him the command of a battalion of hunters formed of the elite of the bodies and constantly exposed to the outposts. He attended the catches of Collioure, the Fort Saint-Elme and Figuières, with the Bataille of Bolt and the Siège of Rosy, which finished the war of the Pyrenees.

Sent in Italy after the Peace of Basle, Quiot found Victor, his former comrade there, who, become general, took it near him like assistance-of-camp. With Rivoli, leading 300 men of the 18^e half-brigade, it removed one of the most difficult positions and had the arm crossed by a ball. With the Battle of Favorite the, it made low put the weapons at 200 Austrians of the body of Provera, and had the same day its horse killed by leading a battalion of terrible the 57^e to the attack of the castle. Appointed major on the field of Battle of Vérone, the March 26th 1799, Quiot was at the days of the Bataille of Trebbia and Fassano which made temporarily lose in France the Italy. There returned the following year with the reserve army, and was the command of the left-hand column of the Victor division which turned the village of Marengo the Bataille day before Marengo.

Member of the Legion of honor to creation, Quiot passed near the marshal Jean Lannes, fought with the Bataille of Ulm, Hollabrûnn, the Bataille of Austerlitz, and was named the December 27th 1805 colonel of the 100^e regiment of line, with the head of which it was wounded with the Bataille of Iéna, by removing the village of Wierzen-Hellingen where rested the left wing of the Prussian S. This new feat of arms the decoration of Officer of the Legion of Honor deserved him.

After the Peace of Tilsitt, colonel Quiot followed the 5^e body in Spain, and obtained the title of Baron of the Empire after the second Siège of Saragossa.

In Andalusia, in 1810, at the time of the Passage of the Sierra-Moréna, it tackled the Spanish division of the general Lascy, cut off in the Défilé from Spena-Perros, beat it completely, made him 800 prisoners and seized the flags of the regiments of the Spanish guards and Jaen. With the Head office of Badajoz, being major of trench, it pushed back two exits of the garrison and accepted in the second a blow of Biscaïen to the head.

After the Bataille of Gébora, where it deserved the praises of the marshal Duc of Dalmatie, it came to the Siège from Campo-Mayor of which it was named governor; the breaches of the place were not repaired yet, when he learned that 15.000 Anglo-Hanovriens, coming from Lisbon under the control of William Carr Beresford, were not any more but with three miles. In a few moments all division Latour-Maubourg, prevented by him and joined together in front of the city, could begin its movement of retirement on Badajoz. During this time, Quiot, after having formed its regiment in three square battalions, supported the loads of the enemy cavalry operated in a four miles broad plain, under the protection of six light pieces of artillery. This retrograde movement, carried out with greatest success by three weak battalions in front of an army, was worth with colonel Quiot a particular testimony of the satisfaction of the duke of Trévise, which obtained for him of the Emperor the Brigadier general rank of the May 19th 1811. The 100^e regiment offered a sword of honor to him like guarantees attachment and of recognition.

Employed in its new rank with the 3^e body in Spain, it went against the general Francisco Ballesteros, beat it with the Bataille of Albuera, was reached there of a blow of bayonet to the left thigh; beat then with the mouth of the Guadiana and forced it to go to seek by sea a refuge with Cadiz.

The Quiot general returned to France to take some rest, returned on line in the rows of the 1^er body after the rupture of the Armistice of 1813. With Kùlm, the August 30th, charged to attack the Prussian body of Kleist, the weather had already collapsed the l^re enemy line, is 2.000 prisoners and removed four parts of gun, when a false direction given to the troops charged to support it, compromised all its brigade, of which the half was put soon out of combat. Wounded itself dangerously to the shoulder and fact prisoner of war, it was led in Bohemia and from there in Hungary, from where it returned only after the Paix of 1814.

With its re-entry in France, it obtained successively the Croix of Saint-Loui S, the command of the department of the Drome and the cross of Commandeur. With the return of Napoleon i, he requested his setting of availability; but with the noise of a coalition against France, it took again service in the 1^er body of the Armée with North. It ordered the 1st division of Ier body of the Armée with North in 1815 (Jean-Baptiste Drouet d' Erlon) to replace the general François Allix with Are worth count de Freudeuthal. It made the Campagne of Waterloo. In the first years of the Restoration, it ordered the subdivisions of Drome and the Isere. Raised with the dignity of large Officer of the Legion of Honor, the August 17th 1822, and named Lieutenant-general the July 30th 1823, it obtained the retirement pension in May 1831. Withdrawn in its ground of the Passage, department of Isere, it was during several sessions member of the general advice. He died in Balme, close Grenoble, the January 12th 1850.

The name of the Quiot general is registered on the southern part of the triumphal arch of the Star.

States of service

December 27th 1805: Colonel with the 100e regiment of infantry of line
May 19th 1811: Brigadier general

Decoration, titles, homages

December 21st 1808: Baron d' Empire

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