Pierre-Charles Lochet (; 1767–1807) was a brigadier general of the

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. Born in

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on 24https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/2438_Lochet.jpg February 1767, he was attracted to the profession of arms, and he enlisted in the Queen's regiment in 1784. In 1789, at the outbreak of the

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, he left the Queen's service. By 1792, he was a captain of the second battalion of volunteers of the

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. He was promoted to commander of the 94th demi-brigade in 1794. He served in the

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in southwestern Germany in 1799 and 1800. In 1803 he was brigadier general. He fought at the

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in 1805 at the head of a brigade of the Grand Army, and at the

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the following year. He was killed by a bullet in the head at the

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on 7 February 1807 and is buried there. His is one of the

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