Eugene Auguste David de Mandeville

Eugene Auguste David de Mandeville , general French, born with Avesnes, the June 11th 1780.

It was called up for the military service, at 17 years, by the requisition.

Though it had made good studies with the old military college of Tyron, it was only simple Haut-le-pied in the Charrois of the Armée with Italy, when the general Grouchy, charged with the military organization of the army Piedmont ease, conferred to him the rank of Sous-lieutenant to the staff.

Later, Assistance-of-camp of the generals Bellavène and Clarke, it made with distinction the campaigns of Prussia and Poland, and was pointed out mainly the June 5th 1807, with the Combat of Guttstadt. In this business, the 59 {{E}} of Line, of which it ordered a company then, had with the firmness of its chief the conservation of a great number of men dispersed by a false walk, and that it joins together in a station where it was defended all the day, though reached of a shot 'to the shoulder.

Created Legionary on this occasion, Mr. de Mandeville served in Spain in 1808 and 1809, and was named in the course of the countryside of 1813, colonel of the 149 {{E}} of Line.

Officer of the Legion of Brigadier general honor and to the 5th body, after the reverses of Leipzig, it fell to the capacity from the enemy and in France only in September 1814 returned.

During the Hundred Days, Napoleon i entrusted to him the command of the national guards of the district of Saverne, with which it will coopéra with the defense of the course of the the Rhine. Sent under the Restoration in the department of the the Vosges, the general of Mandeville remained employed there until in 1829.

Admitted with the retirement in 1831, it had been withdrawn in Saverne where it finished its career the January 28th 1850.

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