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COMMANDER // 1768–1797

Lazare Hoche

generalFrance6 battles1 war

Lifespan

1768 – 1797

177017751780178517901795War of the First Coalition · 1792-1797Battle of Froeschwiller — December 18, 1793 · Republican France · War of the First CoalitionBattle of Kaiserslautern — November 30, 1793 · Republican France · War of the First CoalitionSecond Battle of Wissembourg — December 26, 1793 · France · War of the First CoalitionInvasion of France — July 21, 1795 · French Republic · War of the First CoalitionExpédition d'Irlande — December 1, 1796 · France · War of the First CoalitionBattle of Neuwied — April 18, 1797 · France · War of the First Coalition

Active service 1793–1797 — 6 battles across 1 war; first command at age 25.

Profile

Divisional-General Louis Lazare Hoche was a French Army officer and politician who served as the Minister of War in 1797. He enlisted in the French Royal Army's French Guards Regiment in 1784, and joined the National Guard in 1789 following the beginning the French Revolution. Hoche was commissioned as an officer in 1792, and successively served in the Flanders campaign, War in the Vendée and Chouannerie along with several other engagements. The British historian Richard Holmes described Hoche as "quick-thinking, stern, and ruthless... a general of real talent whose early death was a loss to France."

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Battles (6)

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