Louis-Auguste-Victor, Count de Ghaisnes de Bourmont
Louis -Auguste -Victor de Ghaisne, comte de Bourmont ( born September 2, 1773 the castle Bourmont in Anjou, † October 27, 1846 ) was a French general and statesman, Marshal and Peer of France.
Life
Bourmont was at the outbreak of the French Revolution officer in the Guards, emigrated with his father and became adjutant of the Prince of Condé, but returned in 1794 returned to France to fight in the Vendée against the revolution. At the top of the Chouans he conquered Le Mans in 1795, but fled to London in 1796, from where he returned in 1799 to France again in the Vendée to fight the revolution.
When Napoleon came to power, he joined to this, but was brought after the assassination of the infernal machine suspicious and in 1803 the Citadel of Besançon in prison, from where he escaped in 1805 to Portugal.
By Junot reconciled with Napoleon I, he became in 1808 colonel in the army of Naples and soon after Brigadier General. In the campaigns of 1813 and 1814 he distinguished himself on several occasions made , especially in Dresden and by the defense of Nogent -sur -Seine (1814 ), and was promoted to major general.
On 31 March 1814, he stepped over to the Bourbons and received on May 31, in command of the 6th Army Division (Besançon). After Napoleon's return from Elba, he took over from this command of the 2nd Division of the Moselle army in Flanders, but went on 15 June, on the eve of the battle of Ligny, after he had witnessed the decisive war council and informed of Napoleon's plans to the allies about what Napoleon decisively weakened. After the return of the Bourbons Bourmont worked especially in condemning Neys.
As commander of a corps of the Spanish army of intervention (1823 ), he proposed the constitutionalists at San Lucar la Major and occupied Seville, received after the fall of Cadiz in Andalusia, and the command was on October 6, 1823 Pair.
Recalled because of its severity from Spain in 1824, he was in 1829 in the Cabinet of Polignac Minister of War. In 1830 he received the command of the expedition against Algiers. The French troops in a strength of 37,000 men landed on June 14 at Sidi Ferrusch near the city. De Bourmont forced by highly skilled operations, the city on July 5, to surrender, for which he received the dignity of Marshal on July 22. He placed after the July Revolution resigned his command and went to England on 2 September for displaced royal family.
On March 10, 1832, he was removed from the lists of the army and of the peers because he refused to allow the July Monarchy the oath. In 1833 he commanded a short time the troops Dom Miguel in Portugal and later supported by his advice the Carlists in Spain. But he lived mostly retreated to his castle Bourmont.