Jean Corbineau
Jean -Baptiste Juvenal Corbineau, named Jean -Baptiste Corbineau ( born August 1, 1776 in Marchiennes, † December 18, 1848 in Paris) was a French general of division of cavalry.
Life
Corbineau was the second son of the officer Jean -Charles Corbineau; the cavalry officers Claude (1772-1807) and Hercule Corbineau (1780-1823) were his brothers. The three brothers were very early in their military career, the name " Les trois Horace " - after the mythical triplets from the gender of the Horatii - and this name stuck to them until today.
At sixteen Corbineau joined in 1792 as a volunteer in the army and could be distinguished in the revolutionary wars by bravery. After several promotions, he served with the rank of Lieutenant - adjudant -major under his brother Claude. When this at the Battle of Eylau Prussian ( February 7/8 1807) fell Corbineau fought in its vicinity.
Corbineau was wounded at the Battle of Wagram ( 5 / July 6, 1809 ), but could still be put in the same year by Spain to enforce the Napoleonic policy. Under the leadership of Field Marshal Nicolas Jean -de- Dieu Soult he fought among others in Ocaña (19 October 1809) and served in 1810 as a military governor of Grenada.
1812, when Napoleon planned his invasion of Russia, located Corbineau reported as a volunteer. He was in the battles with the Kljastizy (July 28 / August 1, 1812 ), Borodino (7 September 1812) and on the Berezina ( 26-28. November 1812 ) again distinguished by bravery.
In the battle of Kulm ( 29-30. August 1813 ) Corbineau fought near General Dominique -Joseph Vandamme, but could not come to help, as was captured on the second day of the battle of Russian troops this.
After the battle of Paris (30 March 1814) and the abdication of Napoleon (→ Treaty of Fontainebleau ) is Corbineau turned the Bourbons and Louis XVIII. about. When Napoleon left the island of Elba and the " rule of the Hundred Days " began to Corbineau rejoined the Emperor, and was as Napoleon's aide- de -camp to a member of his staff.
After the battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815) Corbineau again became partisans King Louis XVIII. Even his successor, Charles X and Louis -Philippe I. He supported. In early August 1840 took Napoleon III. a second attempt to stage a coup in France to power. With some companions he left his exile in England and returned to France. When he went to Boulogne -sur -Mer on August 6, 1840 country, he was arrested by order of King Louis -Philippe I of Corbineau.
When constituted the French Second Republic after the February Revolution and Napoleon II on February 25, 1848, won the presidential elections to Corbineau no longer interested in politics. He lived retired the last of the " trois Horace " in Paris. Corbineau died at the age of 72 years on 18 December 1848 in Paris and found his final resting place.