COMMANDER // 1726–1793
Jacques Alexis de Verteuil
generalFrance1 battle1 war
Lifespan
1726 – 1793
Active service 1793 — 1 battle across 1 war; first command at age 67.
Profile
Jacques Alexis de Verteuil was a French general and chevalier of the Order of the Holy Spirit (1770). Having served in French Canada and Governor of the Île d'Yeu from 1768, Verteuil was in command at La Rochelle at the opening of the French Revolution. He then became a commanding lieutenant-general of the Catholic royalist army during the revolt in the Vendée. Captured at Savenay, he was executed as a prisoner of the National Convention for his counter-revolutionary activities in the Vendée.
Battles (1)
1793
Battle of Pont-CharraultWar in the Vendée · Vendeans