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See also:COMTE DE See also:ADAM PHILIPPE See also:CUSTINE (1740-1793) , See also:French See also:general, began his military career in the Seven Years' See also:War . He next served with distinction against the See also:English in the War of See also:American See also:Independence . In 1789 he was elected to the states-general by the bailliage of See also:Metz . In See also:October 1791 he again joined the See also:army, with the See also:rank of See also:lieutenant-general and became popular with the soldiers, amongst whom he was known as " general See also:moustache." General-in-See also:chief of the army of the See also:Vosges, he took See also:Spires, See also:Worms, See also:Mainz and See also:Frankfort in See also:September and October 1792 . He carried on the revolutionary propaganda by proclamations, and levied heavy taxes on the See also:nobility and See also:clergy . During the See also:winter a Prussian army forced him to evacuate Frankfort, re-See also:cross the See also:Rhine and fall back upon See also:Landau . He was accused of See also:treason, defended by See also:Robespierre, and sent back to the army of the See also:north . But he dared not take the offensive, and did nothing to See also:save See also:Conde, which the Austrians were besieging . Sent to See also:Paris to justify himself, he was found guilty by the Revolutionary Tribunal of having intrigued with the enemies of the See also:republic, and guillotined on the 28th of See also:August 1793 . (See FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY See also:WARS.) See A . See also:Rambaud, See also:Les See also:Francais sur le Rhin (Paris, ,88o) ; A . Chuquet, Les Guerres de la Revolution (1886—1895; vol. vi . " L'Expedition de See also:Custine ") . |
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