Charles Mathieu Isidore Decaen

Charles Matthieu Isidore Count of Decaen ( born April 13, 1769 Creuilly at Caen; † September 9, 1832 in Deuil -la-Barre (Val -d'Oise ) ) was a French general.

He served during the Siege of Mainz ( 1793) in adhesive General Staff, but then especially against the Vendéens. 1796 promoted to Major General, he was charged under Moreau's command to prepare in Strasbourg a passage over the Rhine, placed under heavy shrapnel fire across the river, took a battery and set it against the enemy.

As leader of the avant-garde, he chose the day of Ettlingen (10 July 1796). In the retreat of Moreau he commanded the rearguard. 1800 appointed general of division, he took Munich by a coup, decided the victory of Hohenlinden and in 1802 Captain-General of the French islands of Ile de France and Bourbon in the Indian Ocean, which he maintained until 1810 against the British. Only by his capitulation also from him for almost six and a half years illegally imprisoned held English navigator Matthew Flinders was thus freed.

After returning to France, he received the command of the army in Catalonia, where he forced the English to raise the siege of Tarragona. For this, he was elevated to the Count. After 12 and September 13, 1813 defeated the British at the pass of Ordal and Villafranca, he retired to France and tried in vain to save Bordeaux. After the abdication of the Emperor, he joined Louis XVIII. of.

When Napoleon returned from Elba I. 1815, Decaen was governor of the 11th Division in Bordeaux, trying to maintain the rule of the Bourbons, but was soon abandoned by his troops, and took of Napoleon in command of the 10th military division to. After the battle of Waterloo, he was arrested as a result of the Act of October 23, however, constrained by ordinance of the king in freedom. From then on he lived in seclusion and died on 9 September 1832.

• Frenchman
• Military person (France )
• Person in the coalition wars (France)
• Born in 1769
• Died in 1832
• Man