Jean Pierre François Bonet, Count of BonetOman (1902) spells the surname Bonnet (

Alençon Alençon (, , ; nrf, Alençoun) is a commune in Normandy, France, capital of the Orne department. It is situated west of Paris. Alençon belongs to the intercommunality of Alençon (with 52,000 people). History The name of Alençon is firs ...

, 8 August 1768 –

, 23 November 1857) was a French military commander 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 ...

and

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 ...

. During 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 ...

, Bonet saw action at

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(10 November 1808). Oman, Charles (1902)
''A History of the Peninsular War'', Vol. I, pp. 393, 422, 424, 429.
''Project Gutenberg''. Retrieved 15 April 2023. Both he and his commanding officer, Marshal

Marmont Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont (20 July 1774 – 22 March 1852) was a French general and nobleman who rose to the rank of Marshal of the Empire and was awarded the title (french: duc de Raguse). In the Peninsular War Marmont succeede ...

, were wounded by shrapnel at the

Battle of Salamanca The Battle of Salamanca (in French and Spanish known as the Battle of Arapiles) on 22July 1812 was a battle in which an Anglo-Portuguese army under the Earl of Wellington defeated Marshal Auguste Marmont's French forces at Arapiles, so ...

. Bonet is among the names of French military leaders inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

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* Gates, David (1986). ''The Spanish Ulcer: A History of the Peninsular War''. Pimlico 2002. * Pope, Stephen (1999). ''The Cassel Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars''. Cassel. . * Schneid, Frederick C. (2011). ''The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars''. Mainz: Institute of European History. {{DEFAULTSORT:Bonet, Jean Pierre Francois 1768 births 1857 deaths French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars French generals French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars Military personnel from Alençon Counts of France Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe