Louis Henri Loison

Louis Henri Loison ( born May 13, 1771 in Damvillers, † December 30, 1816 in Chikel near Liège ) was a French general.

Life

Loison was 1787/88 soldier and made soon after the French Revolution career. In 1791 he joined a volunteer regiment of his native Meuse, became a second lieutenant and was in 1793 brigadier general in the Rhine and Moselle army. Troops under his command ransacked and destroyed the Abbey Orval, what was done to him later to reproach. On 13 Vendemiaire Year IV (5 October 1795), he fought under the command of Napoleon, the insurgents against the Convention in Paris.

In 1799 he served under Masséna in Switzerland, under Napoleon in Italy in 1805 and took part in the Battle of Austerlitz. In 1806 he became Governor-General of Münster and Osnabrück. In March 1807, he took over the management of the siege of Kolberg, but his opponent Gneisenau could not overcome. In 1808 he fought under Junot in Portugal, 1809 Soult in Spain. For his services he received from Napoleon the domains Gifhorn and Meinersen.

After the invasion of the Grande Armée in Russia he placed in Königsberg on a reserve division of Germans and Italians, with whom he entgegenzog in December 1812 of the defeated army to Vilna. A large proportion of inexperienced soldiers froze to death in this endeavor. After a short stay in the fortress of Wesel Loison adopted in 1813 under Marshal Louis -Nicolas Davout part in the siege of Hamburg and in the late summer of this year the advance Davout to Mecklenburg. Loison commanded units occupied in the course of this undertaking temporarily the port city of Wismar and came to Kropelin ago.

For health reasons different Loison early 1814 from the army of, entered under Louis XVIII. but as a general of division again. When Napoleon's return in 1815 he joined him and followed him into the battle of Waterloo. In November 1815 he went into exile and settled in Chikel, then the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, down.

Honors

His name is inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in the 35th column.

Swell

  • Louis Henri Loison keyword: Charles Mullie, biography of célébrités militaires of Armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850, 1852 as well as older German reference works.
  • Person (Bremen)
  • Born in 1771
  • Died in 1816
  • Man
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