Hercule Corbineau
Marie Louis Hercule Hubert Corbineau called Hercule Corbineau ( born April 10, 1780 in Marchiennes, † April 5, 1823 in Châloms -sur -Marne ) was a French colonel of cavalry.
Life
Corbineau was the youngest son of the officer Jean -Charles Corbineau; the generals Claude (1772-1807) and Jean -Baptiste Corbineau (1776-1848) were his brothers. The three brothers were given at the beginning of their military careers the name " Les trois Horace " - after the mythical triplets from the gender of the Horatii - and this name stuck to them until today.
On April 1, 1793 Corbineau resigned as a midshipman in the French Navy. He learned his first training on the Requin, later moving to the Corvette Naïade. He could distinguish and was promoted on 20 September 1796 Sous- Lieutenant. As such, he joined General Lazare Hoche, the order of Napoleon launched a campaign to Ireland in December, 1796. Together, inter alia, with his brother Claude, Pierre Joseph and François Habert Watrin should an expeditionary army ( 15,000 men ) the Society of United Irishmen, led by Theobald Wolfe Tone in their struggle for independence against the British support (→ Irish Rebellion of 1798 ); this campaign failed, however, entirely.
When Napoleon, under the leadership of General Rudolf Eicke Meyer, called the North francs Legion launched end 1799 to Corbineau reported in the hope of a faster career as a volunteer.
Later Corbineau came to the Rhine army and led a contingent of Hussars at the Battle of Hohenlinden (3 December 1800). On September 12, 1805 he joined the Imperial Guard and fought bravely at Austerlitz (2 December 1805). This was followed by further promotions and he could at Jena (14 October 1806) and Prussian Eylau ( February 7/8 1807) again distinguished by bravery. In the latter, he fought in the vicinity of his brother when he was killed; he himself was wounded in this battle. Already at the Battle of Friedland (June 14, 1807), he came back into use.
In the rank of colonel, he fought at Wagram ( 5/6 June 1809) and was severely wounded. In the hospital, his right leg had to be amputated. In this hospital he met Pierre Daumesnil who had similar fate. One night Corbineau would have bled to death Daumesnil would not have saved him. Napoleon decreed that the next day - this service for friendship - " the two should be listed in honor of the regiment forever in their rosters ."
Corbineau returned to France and got a job as a financial inspector ( Receveur général des finances ) for the département of Seine- Inférieure. In 1810 he married Reine- de Rose Kermarec Travrou and had two children with her: a son, Eugène- Hercule and a daughter, Adèle -Marie, who married in Paris on 30 July 1836 in the church of La Madeleine Napoléon -Marie, a son of the politician Jean -Baptiste de Champagny Nompère.
Hercle Corbineau died five days before his 43rd birthday on 5 April 1823 in Châlons -sur -Marne and found there in the Cimetière de l' Ouest his final resting place.
Honors
- November 5, 1804 Chevalier of the Legion of Honor
- November 17, 1808 Officier of the Legion of Honor
- June 1, 1810 Baron de l'Empire
- The Rue Corbineau in Marchiennes was named after him and his two brothers