Louis Joseph Lahure (29 November 1767 – 24 October 1853) was a general in the service of the

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Biography

Early life

Louis Joseph Lahure was born on 29 November 1767 in

Mons Mons (; German and nl, Bergen, ; Walloon and pcd, Mont) is a city and municipality of Wallonia, and the capital of the province of Hainaut, Belgium. Mons was made into a fortified city by Count Baldwin IV of Hainaut in the 12th century. T ...

in the Austrian Netherlands.Henri Lambert, ''Accusé Pichegru, levez-vous: gloire et misère d'un grand soldat : Jean-Charles Pichegru, 1761-1804'', Bordeaux: Les Dossiers d'Aquitaine, 2004, p. 9

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/ref> He was the son of Nicolas Lahure and Marie-Thérèse du Buisson. He had a brother, Germain Lahure. He studied at the

Old University of Leuven The Old University of Leuven (or of Louvain) is the name historians give to the university, or ''studium generale'', founded in Leuven, Brabant (then part of the Burgundian Netherlands, now part of Belgium), in 1425. The university was closed in ...

Career

Lahure served in the Brabant Revolution in 1787. He moved to

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in France in 1790. He served in the Army of the North under General Nicolas Luckner. He served in the Army of Sambre-et-Meuse. He became a general. Occupying Holland in January 1795, the French continental army learned that the Dutch navy had been frozen into the ice near Texel Island. Lahure and 128 men simply rode up to it and demanded surrender. No shots were fired and the Dutch fleet was captured. Lahure became a naturalised French citizen. He was made a Grand Officier of the

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. He was also made a Knight of the Order of Saint Louis.

Personal life

Lahure married Anne de Warenghien de Flory in 1800. They had seven children and resided at the de

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in northern France. He died on 24 October 1853.

Legacy

His name is inscribed on the

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in Paris. In 1895, Lahure's grandson published his memoirs.Guillaume de Bertier de Sauvigny, Alfred Fierro, ''Bibliographie critique des mémoires sur la Restauration écrits ou traduits en français'', Paris: Librairie Droz, 1988, p. 15

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References

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