Antoine Fortuné Brack

Antoine Fortuné Brack , military French.

Raise Military academy of the promotion of 1806, it made the campaigns of Prussia, of Poland, Germany, Russia, as officer of hussard S and like Assistance-of-camp of the Colbert general. It obtained the decoration of the Légion of honor on the field of Bataille of Wagram.

During the Armistice of Dresden, in 1813, Napoleon i distinguished it in a very particular way, and placed it in the lancers of his old guard, where it remained until after the Bataille of Waterloo.

Left in non-activity during the Restoration, colonel Brack was recalled in 1830, and was named in 1832 colonel of the 4th hussards. Promoted with the rank of Brigadier, the August 24th 1838, it ordered the École of Saumur until in 1840, and the Département of the Eure until in 1848.

Admitted with the retirement since the events of February, it was restored on the executives like available by a recent decree of the National Assembly.

He died in Évreux, the January 21st 1850, in his soixante-unième year. He was commander of the Legion of honor.

After having composed its treaty on the Outposts of light cavalry , it had translated from German the Tactique of the three weapons , of Decker. Volume XXIII of the military Spectateur contains under the title: two are infantries Needed? an article where it attempts to show the need for dividing the army into six distinct weapons, which one would recruit men having the physical conditions or knowledge suitable for each one of them.

Lastly, in July 1838, it had undertaken the free translation and the critical examination of the work of the Count de Bismark, entitled: Sedlitz, or Prussian cavalry under Frederic Large the , that a disease suddenly stopped in 1840.

This work was continued by Mr. artillery colonel Tortel.

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