François Léon Ormancey () was a French general in the
French Revolutionary Wars
The French Revolutionary Wars () were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French Revolution that lasted from 1792 until 1802. They pitted French First Republic, France against Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain, Habsb ...
and the
Napoleonic Wars
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. He was part of the French Order of Battle at the
Battle of Caldiero, in which he commanded the third brigade of
Jean Antoine Verdier
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's II. Division. He was born 2 August 1754 and died 22 July 1824. Effective 29 October 1808, he was created a Baron of the Empire, with letters patent dated 25 May 1811.
He volunteered for the French army in 1768 and was promoted to lieutenant in 1792. In 1793, he was assigned to the 10th Grenadiers in Custine's Army of the Moselle.
Michel Ordener was another lieutenant in the same squadron.
[ Léon Clément Hennet, et al. ''État militaire de France pour l'année 1793.'' Paris, 1793, p. 274.]
On 7 March 1799, he crossed the Rhine with the
Army of the Danube, under command of
Jean Baptiste Jourdan; in 1800, he was with the Army of the Reserve, then stationed in the
Cisalpine Republic
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Creation
After the Battle of Lodi in May 1796, Napoleon Bonaparte organized two ...
. From 1808 to 1812, he was assigned to the Army of Spain and the Army of Andalusia, under command of general
Soult
Marshal General of France, Marshal General Jean-de-Dieu Soult, 1st Duke of Dalmatia (; 29 March 1769 – 26 November 1851) was a French general and statesman. He was a Marshal of the Empire during the Napoleonic Wars, and served three times as P ...
.
Notes and citations
Bibliography
French sources
*Léon Clément Hennet, et al. ''État militaire de France pour l'année 1793.'' Paris, 1793.
*Société de l'histoire de la révolution française. ''La Révolution française''. Paris, Charavay frères
tc.Volume 16.
*Alain Chappet, Roger Martin, Alain Pigeard. ''Le Guide Napoleon.'' Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, 2005. .
French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars
Generals of the First French Empire
1754 births
1824 deaths
Commanders of the Legion of Honour
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