Jean Cavalier

Jean Cavalier (* around 1679 in Ribaute in Languedoc, † May 17 1740 in Chelsea) was one of the main leaders of the camisards in Cevenol and later the English Governor of Jersey.

The farmer's son Jean Cavalier lived in Geneva, as the 1702 revolt in the Cevennes called him back home and soon brought to the top of the Huguenots. He disciplined the disorderly crowds and directed their operations against the royal army with so much prudence and skill that the Marshal Villars him made ​​1704 settlement proposals. Cavalier laid down their arms on condition halfway tolerance. He himself, Louis XIV granted the patent of colonel, which was provided with a salary of 1,200 livres. He also received permission to make the camisards own regiment in the royal pay. Here, however, he was followed by only a small number of comrades.

Cavalier was observed by the government suspicious and could not be persuaded to the Catholic faith. So he fled to Holland after some time and then to England in command of it in Spain a regiment of refugees camisards and excelled with these troops in 1707 at the murderous battles for Almansa in New Castile from. Later he was English Major-General and Governor of Jersey.

• Military person (France )
• Military person ( UK )
• Frenchman
• Born in the 17th century
• Died in 1740
• Man