Claude Lecourbe

Count Claude- Jacques Lecourbe (also: Claude Joseph L.) ( born February 22, 1759 in Ruffey -sur -Seille, † October 22, 1815 in Belfort ) was a French general.

Lecourbe studied at the colleges in Poligny and Lons -le- Saunier. In the Revolutionary and later Napoleonic army he served in part armies and in different places. So he participated, among others, campaigns of the Rhine and Northern Army and was stationed for some time in Nantes. Later Lecourbe army of the Moselle, the so-called " German army " under General Barthelemy Catherine Joubert - allocated. At times Lecourbe was suspected not only to advocate the conspiratorial objectives of General Jean -Charles Pichegru, but to support all. He fell out of favor and had to be Castle Chateau Ruffey retreat. But the army leadership took it back and ordered him to the so-called English part - Napoleon's army to assign it on 13 November 1798 "Army Helvétie " Napoleon.

Lecourbe fought with his troops, inter alia, in the Engadine and finally withdrew behind the Reuss. New application commands led him back to the Rhine, and he commanded the fighting around Basel, Schaffhausen, Hohentwiel, Stockach, Meßkirch, Memmingen, Augsburg, Füssen and Feldkirch. Also at the Battle of Blenheim, he fought gloriously with his soldiers. During these years his nickname " General Fish " was created, as it very often ( and with success) began frogmen.

In Belfort, a statue to remember " glorious defender of the city ", which he defended with only 8,000 troops 15 days before a superior force of 40,000 Austrians. He signed until July 11, 1815 an armistice with the Austrian general Colloredo- Mansfeld. With this fact, Lecourbe wrote in the French textbooks.

At the age of 56 years, General Claude- Jacques died Lecourbe on October 22, 1815 in Belfort.

Honors

His name is inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in the 14th column.