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See also:BARTHELEMY See also:CATHERINE See also:JOUBERT (1769–1799)
, See also:French See also:general, the son of an See also:advocate, was See also:born at See also:Pont de See also:Vaux (See also:Ain) on the 14th of See also:April 1769
.
In 1784 he ran away from school to enlist in the See also:artillery, but was brought back and sent to study See also:law at See also:Lyons and See also:Dijon
.
In 1791 he joined the See also:volunteers of the Ain, and was elected by his comrades successively See also:corporal and sergeant
.
In See also:January 1792 he became sub-See also:lieutenant, and in See also:November lieutenant, having in the meantime made his first See also:campaign with the See also:army of See also:Italy
.
In 1793 he distinguished himself by the brilliant See also:defence of a See also:redoubt at the See also:Col di Tenda, with only See also:thirty men against a See also:battalion of the enemy
.
Wounded and made prisoner in this affair, See also:Joubert was released on See also:parole by the See also:Austrian See also:commander-in-See also:chief, Devins, soon afterwards
.
In 1794 he was again actively engaged, and in 1795 he rendered such conspicuous service as to be made general of See also:brigade
.
In the campaign of 1796 the See also:young general commanded a brigade under See also:Augereau, and soon attracted the See also:special See also:attention of See also:Bonaparte, who caused him to be made a general of See also:division in See also:December, and repeatedly selected him for the command of important detachments
.
Thus he was in See also:charge of the retaining force at the See also:battle of Rivoli, and in the campaign of 1799
(invasion of See also:Austria) he commanded the detached See also:left wing of Bonaparte's army in See also:Tirol, and fought his way through the mountains to rejoin his chief in See also:Styria
.
He subsequently held various commands in See also:
He took over the command in Italy from See also:Moreau about the See also:middle of See also:July, but he persuaded his predecessor to remain at the front and was largely guided by his See also:advice
.
The odds against the French troops in the disastrous campaign of 1799 (see FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY See also:WARS) were too heavy
.
Joubert and Moreau were quickly compelled to give battle by their See also:great antagonist Suvorov
.
The battle of Novi was disastrous to the French arms, not merely because it was a defeat, but above all because Joubert himself was amongst the first to fall (Aug
.
15, 1799)
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Joubert died before it could be shown whether his See also:genius was of the first See also:rank, but he was at any See also:rate marked out as a future great See also:captain by the greatest captain of all ages, and his countrymen intuitively associated him with See also:Hoche and Marceau as a great See also:leader whose See also:early See also:death disappointed their highest hopes
.
After the battle his remains were brought to See also:Toulon and buried in Fort La Malgue, and the revolutionary See also:government paid See also:tribute to his memory by a ceremony of public See also:mourning (See also:Sept
.
16)
.
A See also:monument to Joubert at Bourg was razed by See also:order of See also: 1884) . |
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