Antoine Morlot
Antoine Morlot , was born with Bousse (the Moselle), the May 5th 1766, military French.
He served in the royal body of artillery since the December 7th 1782 until the September 28th 1790.
Elected official captain with the 3rd battalion of the national volunteers of the the Moselle, and employed with the army of this name, the value and the intelligence which it deployed during the countryside of 1792 with 1793, mainly with the Siège of Thionville, made it name, the September 20th of this last year, Brigadier general without to have passed by the intermediate ranks.
It was also with its control with the Bataille of Kaiserslautern and with that which decided lifting of the Blocus of Pram, that it had, 9 pluviôse year II, its promotion with the Major general rank of .
With its first of these businesses, charged, with most extremely of the action, to seize with five battalions the position Morlotte, defended by 60 parts of gun and a many infantry, it was admittedly forced to beat a retreat in front of such higher forces; but by a skilfully designed operation, it avoided being wrapped by the enemy cavalry and brought back its division on the line of battle where Hoche filled it praises and embraced it.
It fought with not less distinction, the 26 germinal one, with the Prise of Arlon, the 5 meadow one, with the Dining passage of the Meuse close to , and the 28 of the same month to that of the Sambre, close Charleroi, where, constrained to give up the village of Gosselies, it preserved nevertheless 7 parts of gun which it had removed with the enemy.
The 8 messidor, day of the battles of Fleurus, placed in front of this village and attacked by the body of the Austrian general Quasdanovvich, non-seulement it was maintained in this position, but realizing that the division of the general Championnet was going to be put in full rout, it effectively helped it by a load with the bayonet which it directed in person.
It was distinguished again in front of Maestricht, for the Bataille of Aldenhoven, and the countryside of year II finished, it was used, of year III at the year V, the armies of North, of Sambre-and-Meuse and Holland.
Invested, after the conquest of this country, of the command of Aachen and the regions located between Meuse and the Rhine, a conflict of authority rose between him and the managing director of the police force that the Directoire had sent there towards the end of year IV. This agent, wounded opposition which Morlot brought to its encroachments on the rights and immunities of the generals as for the military police force, denounced it like guilty of misappropriation, and the Directory, without examination, without preliminary investigation, relieved it the 5 brumaire year V.
Morlot, which was justified completely, was reinstated in its rank the 5 nivôse same year, had the 11 fructidor the command of the 10th military division, then, from the 3rd 10 pluviôse year VI, and made the campaigns of years VII and VIII in Batavie, in the West and the Grisons.
In non-activity the 1st vendémiaire year X, member of the Legion of honor, the 19 frimaire, of availability the 1st nivôse, ordering Order the 25 meadow year XII, and the 16th military division the 28 brumaire year XIV, it joined, the November 9th 1807, the body of observation of the coasts of the Ocean.
Morlot having under its orders the 3rd division of the 3rd body of the Armée with Spain was the November 23rd 1808 at the Bataille of Tudela, and in February 1809 with the head office of Saragossa.
Reached, in front of this place, of a cerebral fever, he died in Bayonne the March 23rd. Its name is registered on the Northern side of the Triumphal arch of the Star.
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