François Louis Dedon-Duclos

François Louis Dedon-Duclos (; 21 October 1762 – 19 January 1830) was a French military commander of the Revolutionary Wars and the

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. Dedon-Duclos was born in

Toul Toul () is a Communes of France, commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle Departments of France, department in north-eastern France. It is a Subprefectures in France, sub-prefecture of the department. Geography Toul is between Commercy and Nancy, Fra ...

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. He entered military service in the Artillery School of

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, 1 April 1777, and on 15 July 1780 he had the grade of Lieutenant. He was promoted to Captain 17 May 1787. In 1792, he was commander of artillery, under the overall commands of, first, Kellerman and later Custine. He fought at Landau, Speyer, and later the siege of Mainz. He was part of the Army of the Rhine, the Army of the Danube, the Army of Helvetia, and he fought later at the Siege of Gaeta and in the

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. At the restoration, he retained the rank of lieutenant general, and Louis XVIII named him as a Knight of the

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. DEDON is one of the

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, on Column 12 on the east side. C. Mullié
"Dedon-Duclos"
''Biographie des célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850''. (Wikisource) Accessed 6 May 2010. He died at Vanves, aged 67. 1830 deaths 1762 births People from Toul Knights of the Order of Saint Louis French Republican military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe {{France-mil-bio-stub