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COUNT LOUIS PIERRE MONTBRUN (1770-1812)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 761 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COUNT See also:LOUIS See also:PIERRE See also:MONTBRUN (1770-1812)  , See also:French See also:cavalry See also:general, served with See also:great distinction in the cavalry See also:arm throughout the See also:wars of the Revolution and the Consulate, and in 1800 was appointed to command his See also:regiment, having served therein from trooper upwards . At See also:Austerlitz (Dec . 2, 18o5) he was promoted general of See also:brigade . He earned further distinction in See also:Germany and See also:Poland as a dashing See also:leader of See also:horse, and in 18o8 he was sent into See also:Spain . Here occurred an incident which unfavourably influenced his whole career . He found himself obliged to overstay his leave of See also:absence in See also:order to protect the See also:lady who afterwards became his wife . See also:Napoleon was furious, and deprived him of his command, and See also:Montbrun was awaiting his See also:master's' decision when an opportunity came to retrieve his reputation . Some doubt exists as to the events of the famous cavalry See also:charge at the Somosierra, but Montbrun's See also:share in it was most conspicuous . Soon after-wards he was promoted to be general of See also:division, and in 18og his cavalry took no inconsiderable See also:part in the victories of See also:Eckmuhl and Raab . He was employed in the See also:Peninsula, r810-1811 . He was killed, when commanding a cavalry See also:corps, at the beginning of the See also:battle of See also:Borodino (See also:Sept . 7, 1812) .

Montbrun was considered, as a leader of heavy cavalry, second only to See also:

Kellermann of all the generals of the First See also:Empire .

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