Jacques-Louis-François Delaistre de Tilly (2 February 1749,

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– 10 January 1822,

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) became a

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in the French army during the

French Revolutionary Wars The French Revolutionary Wars (french: Guerres de la Révolution française) were a series of sweeping military conflicts lasting from 1792 until 1802 and resulting from the French Revolution. They pitted French First Republic, France against Ki ...

. He led a cavalry division in a number of battles during 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 ...

. His name is inscribed under the

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Service

*29 November 1792 :

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of the 6th Regiment of Dragoons *21 April 1793 :

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*2 December 1793 :

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*23 December 1793 : Commanded troops at the Battle of Savenay *5 May 1801 : Commander in chief of the

Armée de l'Ouest The Army of the West (''armée de l'Ouest'') was one of the French Revolutionary Armies that was sent to fight in the War in the Vendée in western France. The army was created on 2 October 1793 by merging the Army of the Coasts of La Rochelle ...

*11 October 1805 : Commanded the Cavalry Division of the VI Corps at the

Battle of Haslach-Jungingen The Battle of Haslach-Jungingen, also known as the Battle of Albeck, fought on 11 October 1805 at Ulm-Jungingen north of Ulm at the Danube between French and Austrian forces, was part of the War of the Third Coalition, which was a part of the ...

*14 October 1805 : Commanded the Cavalry Division of the VI Corps at the

Battle of Elchingen The Battle of Elchingen, fought on 14 October 1805, saw French forces under Michel Ney rout an Austrian corps led by Johann Sigismund Riesch. This defeat led to a large part of the Austrian army being invested in the fortress of Ulm by the arm ...

*17 October 1806 : Commanded the Cavalry Division of the I Corps at the

Battle of Schleiz The Battle of Schleiz took place on October 9, 1806 in Schleiz, Germany between a Prussian-Saxon division under Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien and a part of Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte's I Corps under the command of Jean-Baptiste Drou ...

*17 October 1806 : Commanded the Cavalry Division of the I Corps at the

Battle of Halle In the Battle of Halle on 17 October 1806 a French corps led by Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte fought the Prussian Reserve under Eugene Frederick Henry, Duke of Württemberg. The French defeated their opponents, forcing the Prussians to retreat no ...

*6 November 1806 : Commanded the Cavalry Division of the I Corps at the

Battle of Lübeck The Battle of Lübeck took place on 6 November 1806 in Lübeck, Germany between soldiers of the Kingdom of Prussia led by Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, who were retreating from defeat at the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt, and troops of the ...

*25 January 1807 : Commanded the Cavalry Division of the I Corps at the Battle of Mohrungen *21 June 1813 : Commanded the 2nd Cavalry Division of the Army of the South at the

Battle of Vitoria At the Battle of Vitoria (21 June 1813) a British, Portuguese and Spanish army under the Marquess of Wellington broke the French army under King Joseph Bonaparte and Marshal Jean-Baptiste Jourdan near Vitoria in Spain, eventually leadin ...

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Decorations

*25 March 1809 : Chevalier d'Empire *23 April 1812 :

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Honours

* TILLY is engraved on Column 4 of the

Footnotes

References

Printed materials

* Smith, Digby. ''The Napoleonic Wars Data Book.'' London: Greenhill, 1998. * Glover, Michael. ''The Peninsular War 1807-1814.'' London: Penguin, 2001. {{DEFAULTSORT:De Tilly, Jacques Louis François Delaistre 1749 births 1822 deaths People from Vernon, Eure Republican military leaders of the War in the Vendée French Republican military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe