COMMANDER // 1730–1817
Comte d'Aboville
Lifespan
1730 – 1817
Active service 1781 — 1 battle across 1 war; first command at age 51.
Profile
François Marie, comte d'Aboville was a French général de division. He was the father of Augustin Gabriel d'Aboville and Augustin-Marie d'Aboville. He was born in Brest. He fought in the Seven Years' War. He fought in the American Revolutionary War against the British at the siege of Yorktown in 1781. He fought at the Battle of Valmy in the War of the First Coalition. During the Hundred Days of 1815 and after the Bourbon Restoration, he served in the Chamber of Peers. He was a grand officer of the Legion of Honour and a recipient of the Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Louis.
Battles (1)
1781
YorktownAmerican Revolution · United States