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Georges Joseph Dufour (1758-1820) was a French
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and military commander during the
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and
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wars.


Biography

Dufour was born at Saint-Seine in
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in 1758, and joined the military at
Nivernais Nivernais (, ) was a province of France, around the city of Nevers, which forms the modern department of Nièvre. It roughly coincides with the former Duchy of Nevers.Battle of Neerwinden, at Namurs, and participated in the suppression of the anti-revolutionary
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in the Vendée. He was present when the French Army overwhelmed
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in 1795, and was wounded, then captured, by the Austrian Army at the
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. He continued to fight in the imperial army until 1809. He retired to
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, but returned to the military during the
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in 1815. He was detained briefly following Napoleon's final defeat. He died in Bordeaux in 1820. François-Xavier Feller, François Marie Pérennès, ''Biographie universelle, ou Dictionnaire historique des hommes qui se sont fait un nom par leur talens, leur génie...''. Paris: Éditeurs Gauthier frères, 1834. Volume 4, p. 399.


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* Feller, François-Xavier Feller, François Marie Pérennès, ''Biographie universelle, ou Dictionnaire historique des hommes qui se sont fait un nom par leur talens, leur génie...''. Paris: Éditeurs Gauthier frères, 1834. Volume 4. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dufour, George Joseph 1820 deaths 1758 births Military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars People from Nièvre Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe