Augustin Gabriel D'Aboville (March 20, 1774, La Fère , Picardy - August 15, 1820, Paris ) - French commander of the Napoleonic Wars era, brigadier general , military artilleryman. The son of General Francois D'Aboville , brother of General Augustin Marie D'Aboville .
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Family and background
Born in a family mansion in the city of La Fer in the family of an artillery officer, later Lieutenant General, Senator and First General Artillery Inspector François D'Aboville . The younger brother, Augustin Marie D'Aboville , also chose a career as a military artilleryman, which resulted in the emergence of a unique dynasty of three artillery generals (father and two sons) in service at the same time.
The Norman noble family of D'Aboville, originally descended from Cotentin , is known from the end of the 15th century. The D'Aboville family still exists and is one of the most numerous among the surviving families of French nobility. In 2002, there were more than 130 males - representatives of the genus [4] .
Biography
Augustin Gabriel D'Aboville began service in 1789 as a lieutenant of the 7th Tula Regiment of Foot Artillery. From 1789 to 1792, he studied at the artillery school in Chalon (according to other data in La Fere), which he graduated from as a captain. Like his father, D'Aboville Junior favorably reacted to the revolution, and served in the revolutionary army, taking part, as an officer for instructions from his father, and then as an artillery officer, in many battles as part of the Northern, Moselle, Sambro-Maas, Danube armies. Fought at Stockach (1799). In 1800, with the rank of commander of the battalion, was deputy chief of artillery of the strong frontier fortress of Mainz . When Napoleon began his second expedition to Northern Italy, D'Aboville took part in this expedition, crossing the Great Saint-Bernard Pass with his guns.
He served as chief of artillery parks of the army, then was among the leaders of artillery in Paris , then headed the artillery of Turin (1804). Commander of the Legion of Honor , Colonel.
From 1807 to 1813 D'Aboville served in Spain and Portugal , participated in many battles , becoming one of the most prominent French artillery commanders on the Iberian Peninsula . He took part in assaults and sieges of cities, destroyed bridges across rivers during the retreat of the army, and on the contrary, on the contrary, covered infantry at a ferry with his batteries. In 1809 he received the commander of the Order of the Legion of Honor, was wounded in the same year. In 1810 he replaced the deceased General Senarmon , an outstanding artilleryman, the French hero of the Battle of Friedland , as commander of the artillery during the siege of Cadiz , the last city that remained under the control of the Spaniards, but failed to take the city. Since 1812 - Baron of the Empire. In 1813, during a general retreat from Spain, in the unsuccessful battle for Vitoria for the French, which ended with the flight of the army, General D'Aboville lost much of the guns and was sent on leave.
However, at the end of the same year, by virtue of the offensive of the troops of Russia and its allies , the general was engaged in defensive works in the west of France. From the end of 1813 he was the commandant of Lille . During the Hundred Days not actively served. In 1817 he inherited the title of count of his father and his place in the House of Peers , but survived him only for three years. He was buried at the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris , the grave was preserved.
Personal life
Augustin Gabriel D'Aboville was married in 1816 to the noblewoman Natalie de Drouan de Roshplatt (1796-1831), daughter of the mayor of the city of Orleans . Of his two sons, the eldest, Alfons-Gabriel (1818-1898), inherited his place in the Chamber of Peers (but only in 1844, when he reached the age), the youngest, Auguste-Ernest (1819-1902), was the mayor of the small town Glux -an-glenn
Awards
Legionnaire of the Legion of Honor ( XI year of the republic )
Commander of the Legion of Honor (June 23, 1809)
Cavalier of the Military Order of St. Louis (1814)
Commander of the Military Order of St. Louis (Not earlier than 1814) [5]
- Order of Lily [6]
Memory
The name of General D'Aboville is written on the northern wall of the Paris Triumphal Arch .
Literature
- Shikanov V.N. Napoleon's Generals. Biographical dictionary. - Reittar, 2004. - p. 8.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Dictionnaire des Parlementaires français de 1789 à 1889 / A. Robert , G. Cougny - Edgar Bourloton , 1889. - Vol. 1. - P. 8.
- L Léonore - ministère de la Culture database .
- B BNF ID : Open Data Platform - 2011.
- ↑ Régis Valette, Catalog de la noblesse française au xxie siècle, 2002, p. 27.
- ↑ The ribbon of the order is clearly visible in the portrait of the general.
- Well visible on the portrait of the general.