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Charles Pichegru

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Lifespan

1761 – 1804

1770178017901800French Revolutionary Wars · 1792-1802War of the First Coalition · 1792-1797Flanders Campaign — November 6, 1792 · Kingdom of the French · French Revolutionary WarsBattle of Froeschwiller — December 18, 1793 · Republican France · War of the First CoalitionSecond Battle of Wissembourg — December 26, 1793 · France · War of the First CoalitionBattle at Courtrai — May 10, 1794 · Republican France · War of the First CoalitionBattle of Boxtel — September 14, 1794 · France · French Revolutionary WarsBattle of Mouscron — April 26, 1794 · Republican France · War of the First CoalitionBattle of Tournay — May 22, 1794 · French Republic · French Revolutionary Wars

Active service 1792–1794 — 7 battles across 2 wars; first command at age 31.

Profile

Divisional-General Jean-Charles Pichegru was a French Army officer who served in the French Revolutionary Wars. Under his command, French troops overran the Austrian Netherlands and Dutch Republic in the Flanders campaign before fighting on the Rhine front. Pichegru's Royalist views subsequently led to his fall from grace and imprisonment in Cayenne following the Coup of 18 Fructidor in 1797. After escaping into exile in London and joining the staff of Alexander Korsakov, he returned to France and planned the Pichegru Conspiracy to remove Napoleon from power, which led to his arrest and suicide. Despite Pichegru's defection, his surname is one of the names inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe.

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Battles (7)

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