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JEAN ETIENNE CHAMPIONNET (1762-1800)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 830 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN See also:ETIENNE See also:CHAMPIONNET (1762-1800)  , See also:French See also:general, enlisted in the See also:army at an See also:early See also:age and served in the See also:great See also:siege of See also:Gibraltar . When the Revolution See also:broke out he took a prominent See also:part in the See also:movement, and was elected by the men of a See also:battalion to command them . In May 1793 he was charged with the suppression of the disturbances in the See also:Jura, which he quelled without bloodshed . Under See also:Pichegru he took part in the See also:Rhine See also:campaign of that See also:year as a See also:brigade See also:commander, and at See also:Weissenburg and in the See also:Palatinate won the warm See also:commendation of Lazare See also:Roche . At See also:Fleurus his stubborn fighting in the centre of the See also:field contributed greatly to See also:Jourdan's victory . In the subsequent See also:campaigns he commanded the See also:left wing of the French armies on the Rhine between Neuwied and See also:Dusseldorf, and took a great part in all the successful and unsuccessful expeditions to the See also:Lahn and the See also:Main . In 1798 See also:Championnet was named commander-in-See also:chief of the " army of See also:Rome " which was protecting the See also:infant See also:Roman See also:republic against the Neapolitan See also:court and the See also:British See also:fleet . Nominally 32,000 strong, the army scarcely numbered 8000 effectives, with a See also:bare fifteen cartridges per See also:man . The See also:Austrian general Mack had a tenfold superiority in See also:numbers, but Championnet so well held his own that he ended by capturing See also:Naples itself and there setting up the Parthenopean Republic . But his intense earnestness and intolerance of opposition soon embroiled him with the civilians, and the general was recalled in disgrace . The following year, however, saw him again in the field as commander-in-chief of the " army of the See also:Alps." This, too, was at first a See also:mere See also:paper force, but after three months' hard See also:work it was able to take the field . The campaign which followed was uniformly unsuccessful, and, worn out by the unequal struggle, Championnet died at See also:Antibes on the 9th of See also:January 1800 .

In 1848 a statue was erected in his See also:

honour at See also:Valence . See A . R . C. de St Albin, Championnet, ou See also:les Campagges de Hollande, de Rome et de Naples (See also:Paris, i86o) .

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