François Louis Dedon-Duclos

François Louis Dedon-Duclos (21 October 1762 – 19 January 1830) was a French military commander of the Revolutionary Wars and the

Napoleonic Wars The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major global conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European states formed into various coalitions. It produced a period of Fren ...

. Dedon-Duclos was born in

Toul Toul () is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department. Geography Toul is between Commercy and Nancy, and the river Moselle and Canal de la Marne au Rhin. Climate Toul ...

Meurthe-et-Moselle Meurthe-et-Moselle () is a department in the Grand Est region of France, named after the rivers Meurthe and Moselle. It had a population of 733,760 in 2019.Metz Metz ( , , lat, Divodurum Mediomatricorum, then ) is a city in northeast France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers. Metz is the prefecture of the Moselle department and the seat of the parliament of the Grand ...

, 1 April 1777, and on 15 July 1780 he had the grade of Lieutenant. He was promoted to Captain 17 May 1787. In 1792, he was commander of artillery, under the overall commands of, first, Kellerman and later Custine. He fought at Landau, Speyer, and later the siege of Mainz. He was part of the Army of the Rhine, the Army of the Danube, the

Army of Helvetia The Army of Helvetia, or (french: Armée d'Helvétie), was a command of the French Revolutionary Army. It was formed on 8 March 1798 from the remnants of the first unit to be known as the Army of the Rhine. It was officially merged into the comman ...

, and he fought later at the Siege of Gaeta and in the

Peninsular War The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. In Spain ...

. At the restoration, he retained the rank of Lieutenant General, and Louis XVIII named him as a Knight of the Order of Saint Louis. DEDON is one of the

names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe The following is a list of the 660 names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris. Most of them represent generals who served during the French First Republic (1792–1804) and the First French Empire (1804–1815). Underlined names signify ...

, on Column 12 on the east side. C. Mullié
"Dedon-Duclos"
''Biographie des célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850''. (Wikisource) Accessed 6 May 2010. He died at Vanves, aged 67. 1830 deaths 1762 births People from Toul Knights of the Order of Saint Louis French Republican military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe {{France-mil-bio-stub