François Léon Ormancey was a French general in the

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and the

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. He was part of the French Order of Battle at the Battle of Caldiero, in which he commanded the third brigade of

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's II. Division. He was born 2 August 1754 and died 22 July 1824. Effective 29 October 1808, he was created a Baron of the Empire, with letters patent dated 25 May 1811. He volunteered for the French army in 1768 and was promoted to lieutenant in 1792. In 1793, he was assigned to the 10th Grenadiers in Custine's Army of the Moselle.

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was another lieutenant in the same squadron. Léon Clément Hennet, et al. ''État militaire de France pour l'année 1793.'' Paris, 1793, p. 274. On 7 March 1799, he crossed the Rhine with the

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, under command of

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; in 1800, he was with the Army of the Reserve, then stationed in the

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. From 1808 to 1812, he was assigned to the Army of Spain and the Army of Andalusia, under command of general

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*Léon Clément Hennet, et al. ''État militaire de France pour l'année 1793.'' Paris, 1793. *Société de l'histoire de la révolution française. ''La Révolution française''. Paris, Charavay frères tc.Volume 16. *Alain Chappet, Roger Martin, Alain Pigeard. ''Le Guide Napoleon.'' Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, 2005. . French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars Generals of the First French Empire 1754 births 1824 deaths Commandeurs of the Légion d'honneur {{France-stub