Marc-Antoine de Beaumont (; 23 September 1763 – 4 February 1830) a French nobleman, became a page to the king and joined the army of the
Old Regime
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. He stayed in the army during the
French Revolution
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and narrowly escaped being executed. During the
French Revolutionary Wars
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he fought in the 1796 Italian campaign under
Napoleon Bonaparte
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, leading the cavalry at
Lodi and
Castiglione. In 1799 he was wounded in Italy but fought there again in late 1800.
After Napoleon became emperor, Beaumont led the 3rd
Dragoon Division in two major campaigns during the
Napoleonic Wars
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. He led his cavalrymen against
Habsburg Austria and
Russia
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in several actions during the
War of the Third Coalition
The War of the Third Coalition)
* In French historiography, it is known as the Austrian campaign of 1805 (french: Campagne d'Autriche de 1805) or the German campaign of 1805 (french: Campagne d'Allemagne de 1805) was a European conflict spanni ...
in 1805. In the
War of the Fourth Coalition
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, he was present at
Jena
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and fought at
Prenzlau
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and
Eylau. In 1809, he commanded a reserve formation. His brother-in-law was
Marshal Louis-Nicolas Davout
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. Beaumont is one of the
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.
Early career
Born into a noble family from the province of
Touraine
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, Beaumont became a
page
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in the household of King
Louis XVI of France
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on 31 December 1777. After attaining the position of first page, he was nominated
captain in the ''Lorraine''
Dragoon Regiment on 2 June 1784. He received the
brevet rank of
lieutenant colonel on 22 July 1792 and
colonel
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on 7 August. While his regiment was posted at
Lyon
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during the
Reign of Terror, he came under suspicion, was arrested, and condemned to die. His dragoons turned out fully armed and promised to use violence if the sentence was carried out. In the face of this threat, the authorities had a change of heart and Beaumont was posted to the
Army of Italy instead. While in Italy, he served under
André Masséna
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and
Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer
Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer (December 18, 1747 – August 19, 1804), born in Delle, near Belfort, became a French general during the French Revolutionary Wars and on three occasions led armies in battle.
Early career
Schérer served in th ...
. He became a
general of brigade
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on 25 March 1795.
[Mullié, Charles. ''Biographie des célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 a 1850''. 1852. ''Marc Antoine de Beaumont'', 49]
![General Bonaparte giving orders at the Battle of Lodi](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/General_Bonaparte_giving_orders_at_the_Battle_of_Lodi.jpg)
On 26 March 1796, a youthful commander named
Napoleon Bonaparte
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arrived in
Nice
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to assume command of the Army of Italy. At that time, Beaumont was a brigadier in the 3,090-man 1st Cavalry Division under the overall command of
Henri Christian Michel de Stengel
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. The division included the 1st
Hussar Regiment, the 10th, 22nd, and 25th
Chasseurs à Cheval
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, and the 5th and 20th Dragoon Regiments. In April, Beaumont fought in the
Montenotte Campaign, in which Stengel was mortally wounded at the
Battle of Mondovì
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.
![MM WBc 1870 WP](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/MM_WBc_1870_WP.jpg)
On 2 May, while leading part of the cavalry, Beaumont sent out patrols to find where the Austrian forces were located. At the
Battle of Lodi
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on 10 May, Bonaparte directed him to take his cavalry to ford the
Adda River
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and flank the Austrians out of position. A ford was located 800 meters upstream but it was hard to move significant numbers of horsemen across because the river banks were a tangle of trees. At 6:00 PM Bonaparte ordered a frontal attack, which was a success. Though the horsemen were not directly involved, the knowledge that enemy cavalry were crossing the river helped to unnerve the Austrian defenders.
An eyewitness described an incident during the pursuit of the Austrians. As the French cavalry advance guard approached
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in a cloud of dust, the observer made out the leading horseman yelling at the Austrian stragglers whom he encountered on the road. It was Beaumont. The general dismounted his men, who were on their best behavior, and requested refreshment for his unit. At the time much of the army was on a plundering rampage, looting everything in sight.
At the
Battle of Castiglione
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on 5 August 1796, a powerful redoubt crowned a small hill on the Austrian left flank near the village of
Medole. To take the Monte Medolano position, Bonaparte assigned Beaumont's cavalry,
Auguste Marmont's 15 to 18 artillery pieces, and the 4th Line Infantry Demi-Brigade under
Jean-Antoine Verdier
Jean-Antoine Verdier (2 May 1767 – 30 May
1839) was a French General during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
Service
Born in Toulouse, he enlisted into the Régiment de la Fère on 18 February 1785. He served as Aide-de-camp to Augerea ...
. After an hour and a half of combat, the position fell to the 4th Line and Beaumont's cavalry supports. Though the French tried to cut off the retreat of
Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser
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's army, it was able to escape across the
Mincio
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River.
In the
War of the Second Coalition
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, Beaumont served in Italy again. On 5 April 1799, he was shot through the right shoulder at the
Battle of Magnano
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. He recovered from his wound in time to fight at the
Battle of the Mincio on 25 December 1800. He received promotion to
general of division
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sometime in 1802 or 1803. On 11 December 1803 he became a member of the
Légion d'Honneur
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.
[
]
Napoleonic Wars
In the War of the Third Coalition
The War of the Third Coalition)
* In French historiography, it is known as the Austrian campaign of 1805 (french: Campagne d'Autriche de 1805) or the German campaign of 1805 (french: Campagne d'Allemagne de 1805) was a European conflict spanni ...
, Beaumont led the 3rd Dragoon Division, which included 18 squadrons in the 5th, 8th, 9th, 12th, and 16th Dragoon Regiments, and a horse artillery battery. His brigadiers were Charles Joseph Boyé and Nicolas-Joseph Scalfort. Under the overall leadership of Marshal Joachim Murat
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, he led his 2,400 troopers into action at the Battle of Wertingen on 8 October 1805. The French cavalry, including Beaumont's division, Louis Klein
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Initially part of the house guard at the royal residences fo ...
's 1st Dragoon Division, Anne-François-Charles Trelliard
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's Light Cavalry Brigade, and Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty's 1st Cuirassier Division, marched from Rain
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early that morning. Moving south along the Lech River
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to Nordendorf
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, they turned west and appeared before Franz Xavier Auffenburg's 5,400 Austrians at Wertingen
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.
Klein's division marched south and west to flank the Austrians, while Beaumont and Trelliard attacked in front. Major Rémi Joseph Isidore Exelmans The Remi were an ancient Belgic tribe.
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led an attack by 200 dismounted dragoons which cleared the Austrians out of an outlying village. The French found the nine enemy battalions drawn up behind Wertingen in one large square. The formation was attacked with the help of Nicolas Oudinot's infantry division and driven back in increasing confusion. Finally, the Austrians fled, leaving 2,000 prisoners in French hands.
After the Austrians surrendered at the Battle of Ulm, Napoleon's army pursued a rear guard led by Maximilian, Count of Merveldt to the east. Murat's cavalry attacked between 4,000 and 6,000 Austrians near Ried im Innkreis
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on 30 October. A portion of the rear guard was driven into a defile. Murat sent in chasseurs à cheval and dismounted dragoons to crush this force, capturing 500 to 600 prisoners. The next day, 4,000 troops from Merveldt's rear guard under Emmanuel von Schustekh-Herve made a stand at Lambach
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on the Traun
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'' Infantry Regiment, two squadrons of the '' Kaiser'' Dragoons # 1, and eight squadrons of the ''Kaiser'' Hussars # 1 were supported by four Russian jager battalions and a squadron of hussars. Murat ordered Beaumont's 3rd Dragoon Division and Baptiste Pierre Bisson's 1st Division of Davout's III Corps to attack. The Allies were driven back, with the Russians suffering 100 killed and less than 50 wounded. French losses were "slight" though Bisson was wounded. Beaumont fought at the Battle of Austerlitz
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, leading the 5th, 8th, 12th, 16th, and 21st Dragoon Regiments. He was named a Grand Officer of the Légion d'Honneur on 10 February 1806.[
]
Beaumont led the 3rd Dragoon Division at the Battle of Jena on 14 October 1806 in the War of the Fourth Coalition
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. His division was one of the three present with Marshal Joachim Murat
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at the Capitulation of Erfurt
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. The 3rd Division included the 5th, 8th, 12th, 16th, 19th, and 21st Dragoon Regiments. He was active in the pursuit of Prince Hohenlohe's Prussian corps. He was present in the action of Zehdenick
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...
on 26 October. Beaumont played a prominent role at the Battle of Prenzlau
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on 28 October. After the Prussian rear guard under Prince Augustus of Prussia
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became separated from the marching column, Beaumont charged it repeatedly, driving it northward. He finally pinned the rear guard against the Uecker
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River, forcing it to surrender. Hohenlohe capitulated with his main body soon afterward. He was present at the Battle of Czarnowo
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on 23 December 1806.[
Emperor Napoleon named Beaumont a Senator on 14 August 1807 and a ]Count of the Empire
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Like many others, both before and since, Napoleon found that t ...
in March 1808. That year he was also awarded the Order of the Iron Crown
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The order took its name ...
, the Military Order of Max Joseph
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of Bavaria
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, and the Order of Fidelity of Baden
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.[
In 1809 Beaumont commanded the Reserve Division under Marshal ]François Christophe de Kellermann
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. Based at Frankfurt-on-the-Main
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, the all-arms unit consisted of 826 men from elite companies of line and light infantry regiments, 1,251 Württemberg infantry, 527 Bavarian infantry, a 160-man foot artillery company with eight guns, and the following provisional dragoon regiments, 1st - 697 sabers, 2nd - 669 sabers, 3rd - 515 sabers, 4th - 771 sabers, and 5th - 792 sabers. This force did not fight at the Battle of Wagram
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.[Bowden & Tarbox, 160]
In 1814, the Senate officially passed laws deposing Napoleon. King Louis XVIII of France
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bestowed the Order of Saint Louis on Beaumont in June 1814. He was not employed during the Hundred Days. After the Bourbon Restoration he commanded a division in the Army of Paris.
Family
Beaumont married Louis-Nicolas Davout
Louis-Nicolas d'Avout (10 May 1770 – 1 June 1823), better known as Davout, 1st Duke of Auerstaedt, 1st Prince of Eckmühl, was a French military commander and Marshal of the Empire who served during both the French Revolutionary Wars and th ...
's sister Julie (1771–1846) in 1801. He died on 4 February 1830 and was buried in the same tomb as his brother-in-law Davout with whom he shared a long friendship. The name BEAUMONT is engraved on Column 17 of the Arc de Triomphe. The surname was shared with another French officer, Louis-Chrétien Carrière, Baron de Beaumont (1771–1813), who temporarily led a brigade under Beaumont at Prenzlau.[
]
Notes
References
* Bowden, Scotty & Tarbox, Charlie. ''Armies on the Danube 1809''. Arlington, Texas: Empire Games Press, 1980.
* Boycott-Brown, Martin. ''The Road to Rivoli.'' London: Cassell & Co., 2001.
* Chandler, David. ''The Campaigns of Napoleon.'' New York: Macmillan, 1966.
* Duffy, Christopher. ''Austerlitz 1805''. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1977.
* Kagan, Frederick W. ''The End of the Old Order: Napoleon and Europe, 1801-1805''. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2006.
* Mullié, Charles. ''Biographie des célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 a 1850''. 1852.
* Petre, F. Loraine. ''Napoleon's Conquest of Prussia 1806''. London: Lionel Leventhal Ltd., 1993 (1907).
* Smith, Digby. ''The Napoleonic Wars Data Book.'' London: Greenhill, 1998.
* Thiers, Adolphe. ''Histoire du Consulat et de Empire''. Vol. 6. Paris, 1847.
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