Guillaume Philibert Duhesme
Count Guillaume Philibert Duhesme (* July 7, 1766 in Bourgeuf / Burgundy, † June 20, 1815 in Genappe ) was a French general.
Life
Duhesme studied law. He was appointed in 1792 by Charles -François Dumouriez to the Supreme a Free Corps, which he had formed from their own resources. In 1793 he claimed as commander of Roermond important for the connection with Holland items of Herstal. On March 18, 1793, he burned after the defeat at Neerwinden the bridge over the Loo, then went over the Scheldt, and brought in the battle of Villeneuve ( July 6) the fleeing Austrians infantry columns to a halt, for which he was appointed brigadier general.
Also to victory at Fleurus on 26 July 1794, he contributed a lot and besieged under Jean- Baptiste Kléber Maastricht, after which he was appointed general of division. He fought in 1795 in the Vendée, then on the Rhine, where he forced the crossing of the Rhine at Diersheim below Kehl on April 20, 1797. 1798 entrusted with a command in Italy, led by Jean -Etienne Championnet, he was in January 1799 with the capture of Naples and calmed Calabria and Puglia.
He then received a command in the Alps and in the spring of 1800 in the Franco- Batavian army under Charles Pierre François Augereau. Charged on counts and knights of the Legion of Honour, he led 1805, the 4th Division of the Italian Army and again took part in the conquest of Naples.
In February 1808, he was given command of the Army Corps of East Pyrenees ( Corps d' Armée des Pyrénées Orientales) in Spain and was characterized by the defense of Barcelona. On the allegations of Augereau to have tolerated various excesses of his troops, he remained from 1810 to 1814 without a job, but then received a division under Marshal Claude Victor- Perrin, and fought with at La Rothière, Montereau and Arcis- sur- Aube. After Napoleon's first abdication, he was Inspector-General of Infantry, went to Napoleon's return to the same over, fought at Ligny and was severely wounded at Waterloo on 18 June 1815. At about 2 clock in the morning on June 20, 1815, he succumbed to his wounds at the restaurant " Au Roi d' Espagne " in Genappe.
Works
It is known Duhesmes font Essai historique de l' infantry légère (Lyon 1806; 3rd edition, Paris 1864; German, Berlin 1829). https://play.google.com/
Honors
His name is inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in the 8th column.
Swell
- Helmut Konrad von Keusgen: Waterloo lexicon. Napoleon's campaign in Belgium in 1815 from A to Z. IMK Creativ Verlag, Garbsen, 1999, ISBN 3-932922-05-0