Jacques-Nicolas Gobert (1 June 1760 – 17 July 1808)Mullié, Charles (1852)
''Biographie des célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850: G–O'', pp. 1-2.
At Google Books. Retrieved 26 August 2013. was a French general who was killed in action in Spain during the

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. He set out from Madrid with a division on 2 July 1808 to join General

Dupont DuPont de Nemours, Inc., commonly shortened to DuPont, is an American multinational chemical company first formed in 1802 by French-American chemist and industrialist Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours. The company played a major role in ...

in Jaén. Defeating the insurgents who attacked his troops in the

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, he and General Lefranc passed the Puerta del Rey, where he left a battalion, Foy, Maximilien Sébastien (1827
''History of the war in the Peninsula under Napoleon, to which is prefixed a view of the political and military state of the four belligerent powers, publ. by the countess Foy, Volume 2'', pp. 327–335
At Google Books. Retrieved 25 August 2013. on 15 July 15, and reached

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with only one brigade, as the remainder of his troops was needed to hold the road north through the mountains against the guerrillas. During the

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, after joining General Liger-Belair on the road between Bailén and

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, he was wounded by a ball to the head while rallying his troops. He died in

Guarromán Guarromán is a city located in the province of Jaén, Spain. According to the 2006 census (INE INE, Ine or ine may refer to: Institutions * Institut für Nukleare Entsorgung, a German nuclear research center * Instituto Nacional de Estadísti ...

on the night of 16 to 17 July. Gobert was a friend of Dupont's, having served on his staff in

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, and had requested the transfer of his division from General Moncey's corps to that of Dupont.

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